Here are some headlines from WLOSers:
-Thousands of dollars in liens filed have been filed against Jack Kasey and his homebuilding company.
-Buncombe County’s TDA tells Asheville City Council that cleanliness, pan-handling and predatory towing are top three problems with downtown.
-The dead bear wrapped in Obama campaign signs found at Western Carolina University on Monday was a prank most likely committed by students.
-A record number of voters are casting their ballots early, and that’s causing parking problems at the north Asheville library. People are parking in spaces of businesses in the shopping center next to the library.
-We had great weather Tuesday. No rain. It will drop into the 30s overnight at we’ll have a high in the low 60s.
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WCU was the worst of the worst of the worst. It was a magnet for teachers (I don’t want to degrade the word “professors”) who couldn’t make it anywhere else. I didn’t have experience with any other college, and by my Sophmore year I knew there was something very wrong with this school. I had a very low self-esteem and didn’t want to lose the group of friends I had found or leave my girlfriend, so I stayed; it was the worst mistake I ever made. I was horrified to discover that it hasn’t changed since I went there many years ago. If you’re considering this shithole, please, please check around. I can’t think of another place you could go to that wouldn’t be better. I can’t even think of this place as Western Carolina Univesity; I can only think of it as “Western Carolina Shithole”. Very sad, but true. Don’t let what happened to me happen to you. You have been warned.
WHAT IS PREDATORY TOWING:
Predatory and abusive towing is a growing national problem, made worse by a tough economy and a lack of regulation of the towing industry. I’ve dedicated an entire blog to this problem. Check it out at http://www.towingutopia.com, and feel free to bring your stories of what has happened to you in Asheville.
Panic at the polls! Nowhere to park!
They just need to turn them away and then tow the vigilante ones…people that vote there are more likely going to cast a vote for McCain/Palin anyway.
The whole incident was sick the bear was a 75 lb. cub.
Don’t you mean liens?
There’s a hair salon in that shopping center by the north Asheville library. It’s the place Nathan Ramsey gets his hair cut, and it proudly displays McCain/Palin signs. If you park in their parking spaces, they’re calling the tow trucks.
The headline ought to be: "Republican stylists attack early voters."
arwen… that is when lot owners have cars towed based on the plates on the car… if you see a guy in a red unmarked tow truck on weekends with a big smile on his face and a car with florida/ohio/new york plates on the back (or a rental) you will see what I mean.
not that lot owners should not be allowed to remove cars, but they are picking the ones they know will pay the fee and not have any power behind complaints.
Oh Yeah, and as for Predatory Towing.
Asheville has the cheapest parking of any city in the Southeast. Most cities charge $15-$20 a day at a lot or garage.
If you get towed because you are to cheap or you are just plain to lazy to walk it is your fault.
For people that get out to other places often you will notice that Asheville is the dirtiest city in the Southeast.
Maybe if we clean up the vagrants and panhandlers and make the city look respectable people will take pride in keeping it clean.
Note: Homeless people don’t panhandle, vagrants do. We cater more to the vagrants from other places then we do for the homeless in our area.
Repeat: Asheville is the dirtiest city in the Southeast.
Western Carolina University is the worst in the UNC system and this situation just proves it. So they took the Obama sign, just to cover the head wound? Did they not think what message it might send, NO! They were stupid, just like most that attend classes in Cullowhee. Western’s response: So now we know what happened and thank god it was just a prank! Are you F-ing kidding me! This makes me just as mad. John Bardo needs to be fired for his remarks, if you want to read WCU’s take on the entire situation Go to WCU main website. It will make you sick too!
I don’t mean to sound dim but what is predatory towing?