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LIVE BLOG: 2014 Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway

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Welcome to More Front Wing’s live blog from the 2014 Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway! MFW Contributor John Lingle is at the track tapping out updates all weekend long. Updates are posted with the most recent at the top, so if this is your first visit to the live blog please go to the last page and work your way forward. For Verizon IndyCar Series time sheets and race info, visit the Firestone 600 Event Summary.

12:38 PM CT Sunday (John) – Back here one last time for a much more thorough wrap-up of the Firestone 600 weekend at Texas Motor Speedway. First, here are some links to More Front Wing’s other coverage closing out the weekend:

Carpenter claims victory in Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway (IndyCar’s press release with quotes from much of the field)

MFW’s First Impressions of the 2014 Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway

Event Summary: 2014 Firestone 600 (race results, post-race reports, and current point standings)

This weekend the Verizon IndyCar Series rolled into my home state for the Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway, and we unfortunately rolled out some trademark Texas heat to greet the drivers and teams. Temperaures in the low 90s and high humidity were unfortunately the norm for the weekend.

Friday saw the Target Chip Ganassi Racing teams showing good speed in both practices, but ultimately they were trumped by Will Power’s Verizon Team Penske machine in qualifying.

The day’s three sessions (two practices and qualifying) saw the drivers emerge cautiously optimistic about the new downforce and tire rules that added up to 300 pounds of downforce to their Dallara chassis. While much happier with the setup than last year’s rule set, the drivers all seemed somewhat hesitant to proclaim it a “good” formula for the event.

The race start was an exciting one, with Marco Andretti picking up eight spots in the first three laps before a blown engine ended his event. It was a foreshadowing of a rough event for Andretti Autosport as James Hinchcliffe suffered from handling problems all night while Ryan Hunter-Reay saw his own race end early with another Honda engine failure.

Will Power got a pit road speeding penalty with 33 laps to go after being the dominant car the entire evening, handing the race victory to Ed Carpenter. A late-race caution made it very interesting, though, as Power used tire strategy to jump from 6th to 2nd in two laps to make Ed sweat. For what’s it worth, all of the podium finishers said after the race that IndyCar had nailed the downforce perfectly, with Scott Dixon also concurring among those I heard from.

After the race, those in the media center were treated to the strangest press conference that I have ever seen or witnessed. Will Power entered first and look ticked off when he first sat down. He was mad at himself, mostly, it seemed, for the pit road speeding penalty that saw him garner his fourth drive-through penalty in five races. Juan Pablo Montoya then entered, traded an awkward hello with Will, and then started complaining about the final restart. What happened over the next three to four minutes really took the cake as the two drivers went from loggerheads to a hug at the podium, with Will even joking that he and JPM might start a morning TV show.

That left race winner Ed Carpenter with an impossible act to follow, but he came really close when asked about Juan’s complaints about Ed’s restarts.

“He finished third, didn’t he? Yep, didn’t matter,” was Ed’s response, drawing laughter from the assembly. He added that Juan would probably want to talk to him about it later and that he (Ed) would be more than happy to oblige.

Great racing (in my opinion) aside, I was struck by the difference in scheduling from Friday to Saturday. Friday saw a packed list of events featuring IndyCar and the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series practices and qualifying as well as the Truck Series race that night, and fans at the event on Friday were treated to almost constant action from 10 AM until well after sunset and the end of the Truck race.

Saturday, however, saw the exact opposite. I rolled into the media center at around 1 PM, but there was zero activity at the track! IndyCar teams had a systems check at 4 PM, but other than that there was nothing for fans to do other than cruise the garage area or the midway. I hope that for events like this in the future the Verizon IndyCar Series and the promoter will try to provide fans with more content for their race ticket prices. If I was looking for something to do in the media center, I can only imagine how the fans braving the heat felt.

On a personal note, I finally got to meet Mario Andretti in person, having interviewed him for my Lloyd Ruby biography, Hard Luck Lloyd. I am always struck by how at ease Mario is with his place in racing royalty. Always approachable, always smiling, Mario is a true treasure, and IndyCar is lucky to have him as an ambassador.

I will be in Houston from June 27 to 29 covering the Shell and Pennzoil Grand Prix of Houston for More Front Wing, and I have a very heartwarming piece coming up that will run in the days leading up to the event. I have to keep that subject under wraps for now, but we will advertise it through More Front Wing’s channels and on my Twitter account (@jdlingle) when it comes out.

Thanks very much for following along this weekend. See you in Houston!

10:50 PM CT (John) – Well, another Verizon IndyCar series event has come and gone. I thought that the racing was really good, and I’ll be curious to see what everyone else thought. Of course, I liked last year’s event as well because I really like seeing drivers struggle for car control.

It’s late on the East coast, so look for our First Impressions, updated Event Summary, and my personal thoughts on the weekend to post tomorrow morning.

Thanks for tuning in. See you guys in Houston when I return to this space. There should be a lot more on track activity there so I expect to have a lot more entries.

6:15 PM CT (John) – The garage is alive and humming now. Hard to get a gauge on the fan turnout just yet, but the garage was hard to navigate if that means anything. Cars are being ran for those last minute checks and the drivers are in the haulers preparing for the event.

The green flag should drop here in about an hour and fifteen minutes, so strap in for some good IndyCar oval action here from TMS.

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Scott Bloomquist snaps streak of 10 different winners to start season in Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series

There’s been so much written and said about the fact that NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series has had seven different winners (and seven different No. 1 qualifiers) in as many races to start the 2014 season.

But as outstanding as that is, the Sprint Cup folks have a little catching up to do to reach those in the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series.

Heading into last Saturday’s race at ARK-LA-TEX Speedway, there had been 10 different winners in the first 10 LOLMDS races this season.

How’s that for parity?

But sooner or later the law of averages were going to catch up and Scott Bloomquist, who won the DIRTcar Nationals earlier this season at Volusia (Fla.) Speedway, became the first repeat winner with his Saturday night win at ARK-LA-TEX Speedway.

Using the all-new RY-45 motor from Roush Fenway Racing, Bloomquist started from fourth position, moved up to second 20 laps into the event, and then took the lead from Ray Moore just two laps from the finish of the 50-lap A-Main event.

It was Bloomquist’s 47th career win in the LOLMDS.

“This is our first time here,” Bloomquist said. “We’ve got a 70% win ratio for our first visit to a racetrack so we just upped our percentage a little bit tonight.”

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Haas junior Ferrucci scores maiden GP3 podium at Spa

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Haas Formula 1 junior driver Santino Ferrucci picked up his maiden podium finish in GP3 on Sunday at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.

Ferrucci, 18, joined Haas earlier this year in a development role before enjoying his first F1 test at Silverstone in July.

The native of Woodbury, CT, moved into GP3 for 2016 with DAMS after spending a season-and-a-half in FIA F3, scoring his first points at Silverstone.

Ferrucci arrived in Spa coming off the back of points in both races in Germany before the summer break, and followed it up with a charge to seventh in the feature race on Saturday.

Ferrucci started Sunday’s sprint race from second place on the grid, and despite falling behind Jack Aitken and Antonio Fuoco, managed to keep his cool amid a number of safety car periods to finish third, marking his first podium finish in GP3.

Ferrucci is currently the only American racing in F1’s primary feeder series ladder (GP2 and GP3), and will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of compatriots Alexander Rossi and Conor Daly, both of whom raced in the series before moving into IndyCar.

Alonso to start last in Belgium after further penalty

SPA, BELGIUM - AUGUST 27:  Fernando Alonso of Spain drives the 4 McLaren Honda Formula 1 Team McLaren MP4-31 Honda RA616H Hybrid turbo during final practice for the Formula One Grand Prix of Belgium at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps on August 27, 2016 in Spa, Belgium.  (Photo by Dan Istitene/Getty Images)
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Fernando Alonso will start Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix from last place on the grid after receiving a further penalty overnight for another power unit change.

Two-time Formula 1 world champion Alonso was hit with a 35-place grid drop for taking a new power unit on Friday, mirroring a move made by Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton.

The Spaniard was unable to set a time in qualifying after an issue on his car forced him to stop on his out lap, prompting McLaren to change more components ahead of the race, resulting in another penalty.

Alonso’s total grid drop now amounts to 60 places, meaning he starts the race behind Hamilton who has a 55-place drop. Naturally, neither can serve their penalty in full, but they will start P21 and P22.

“Obviously it’s painful when you have reliability problems such as these, but at the end of the day it’s part of our learning process,” Alonso said after qualifying.

“We know what we have to do: we have to understand what’s still too fragile in the PU, reinforce those parts, and make sure that next year we have a PU that’s powerful and strong enough to be capable of fighting at the front.”

Alonso took to Instagram to make fun of the penalties, flipping the grid so that he and Hamilton would be on the front row.

Provisional grid. First row for Lewis and me. #penalties #60and55places 🙄🙄

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Pole-sitter Nico Rosberg wasn’t having any of it though.

The Belgian Grand Prix is live on NBCSN and the NBC Sports app from 7am ET on Sunday.

McFADIN: Return of ‘old-school Texas’ worth the wait

FORT WORTH, TX - AUGUST 27: James Hinchcliffe driver of the #5 Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Honda leads Tony Kanaan driver of the #10 NTT Data Chevrolet and Graham Rahal driver of the #15 Mi-Jack/RLL Honda going into the final lap during the Verizon IndyCar Series Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway on August 27, 2016 in Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo by Mike Stone/Getty Images for Texas Motor Speedway)
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FORT WORTH – If you squinted hard enough, it was 2002 all over again.

“It took some old-school Texas right there,” said Tony Kanaan, who was actually there. “I had to dig into my hard drive and remember how to do pack racing again, and it worked out pretty well.”

For a few hours Saturday night, it was as if 14 years hadn’t passed since Texas Motor Speedway’s peak era of “pack racing.”

James Hinchcliffe wishes that were the case. If it were, he might have won the 2016 Firestone 600.

“My night was great until about eight minutes to go,” Hinchcliffe joked in the TMS media center after finishing second to Graham Rahal in a race that began 77 days earlier on June 12.

Hinchcliffe led 188 laps between June 12 and Aug. 27, but Rahal led only one – the big one – by a track record .008 seconds.

“I’ve seen so many races won here on the high line, coming to the line because you just have that momentum off of (Turn) 4,” Hinchcliffe said. “I was going — thinking back to my IRL Classic days and Sam Hornish Jr.’s tricks and all the rest of it, but man, Graham just pulled through (Turns) 3 and 4 like no one had all night.”

Hinchcliffe, who lapped the field up to fifth place, said his No. 5 Honda was an “absolute rocketship.”

But after a late afternoon practice session, Rahal told his team over the radio that his No. 15 Honda was “a f—ing rocketship.”

Rahal initiated The Dive as he, Hinchcliffe and Tony Kanaan approached Turn 3 for the last time.

Other drivers, including Kanaan, had made similar desperate maneuvers in the seven laps since the last restart.

Rahal, who had restarted the race in 12th and at one point in the night survived a four-wide pass, was the only one who made it work.

“Once I could get there, I could drive through them,” said Rahal, who had to juggle battling Kanaan for second while also trying to overtake Hinchcliffe. “It was just a matter of trying to pick your spot, and very fortunately at the end, I knew I was going to have to try to take Hinch to the top side because there was only one way actually to clear him, which was to the bottom, and I was just very lucky it worked.”

After constantly fending off Kanaan, Hinchcliffe had expected to contend with him coming to the checkers. To Hinchcliffe’s surprise, it was the No. 15 that finally bested him as Kanaan settle into third.

“I hadn’t been next to a car all night that cleared me that quickly,” Hinchcliffe said, his right hand on his face in disbelief. “You know, he had the pace when he needed to. That was the time to make that move, and like I said, credit to him.”

Rahal, who won three times in the last two seasons, was gracious to Hinchcliffe as he wore the cowboy hat that winners at TMS are bestowed. The hat he lost to Justin Wilson in 2012.

“I have to thank Hinch a lot because, first of all, we’re flying home together tonight, so at least it’s not going to be awkward,” Rahal joked. “Second of all, he gave me some good room at the bottom and didn’t end up in tears. Have to thank him for good, clean driving.”

As Rahal and his car were pushed toward a waiting victory lane, his teammates would not stop yelling.

Amid the hollers, one gray-clad team member declared simply – “That’s racing!”

Even though he led 188 laps and finished second, Hinchcliffe agrees with those who snatched away his shot to wear a 10-gallon hat and fire off six-shooters.

“I had a blast. That’s the problem. I had an absolute blast. Had I not led every lap of the race, I would be much happier than I am,” Hinchcliffe said. “Certainly at the end we put on a hell of a show for the fans, and that’s what we’re here for … It would have been a lot more boring if some car just won by half a straightaway.”

That’s coming from the driver who until a series of late cautions, likely would have done that exact thing.

“It’s also a lot different than what it used to be,” Rahal said. “It is not just flat-out easy pack racing anymore. I mean, you were lifting a heck of a lot in traffic, but the way these cars suck up nowadays, the draft is huge so it just makes the racing awesome.”

It may have looked like 2002. But in 2016, it might have been better.

Pagenaud takes pivotal fourth place finish in Texas

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The resumption of the Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway offered Simon Pagenaud a challenge: recover from his first and thus far only mistake of the year on Monday in Pocono and put forth a championship-caliber performance, or incur a second straight dud result that could put pause to those hopes.

But despite the “weird” nature of the day that faced him going into it, Pagenaud delivered a key drive aided by a good strategic call from his No. 22 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Team Penske Chevrolet team to secure a potentially pivotal fourth place finish for the rest of the Verizon IndyCar Series season.

After a spate of late-race accidents, Pagenaud was one of two drivers along with Tony Kanaan who opted to pit for fresh Firestone tires.

The gamble paid dividends because inevitably, those cars with the fresher tires would move towards the front in the later stages.

Pagenaud, who’s certainly been better on ovals this season in his second year with Team Penske but hasn’t yet had that incredible “tip of your tongue” memory oval drive, had to balance fighting for the win with three hungry drivers who hadn’t yet won this year – Kanaan, James Hinchcliffe and eventual winner Graham Rahal.

But he did just that, fighting hard yet clean in an intense four-way battle on a night he needed a big result to restart his title momentum, in a race that was looming large on the calendar.

Yeah, he ended fourth – but with Will Power in eighth, he gained eight points to stretch his lead to 28 points – and that provides the latest pendulum swing between the two in a year full of them.

“My spotter said, ‘four-wide’, and I’m like uh, oh, that’s no good,” Pagenaud said post-race. “And then Rahal touched me and I touched Hinchcliffe, so I was actually loose going into the corner and had to back out of it.

“It’s unfortunate. I really wanted to get that first oval win. But, I think no matter what, that was a great performance. The HP car was amazing all night. Thanks to Chevy, obviously; this aero kit is really amazing. It really shows what the IndyCars can do. I think tonight we had a great show. Did you guys enjoy it? I did. I didn’t have any breath left, you know?

“Wow. That was exciting! I don’t think I have any breath left. I thought we were going to get it, but when it went four wide I got touched and pushed me into (James Hinchcliffe) and I had to back out of it or there was going to be a big wreck. The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Chevy just got better and better all night. I really thought it was going to come together right at the end when we got back on the lead lap. We were able to come in for tires. Everything nearly came together.”


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Trillionaire Art Show

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According to a press release, “If you’ve read or know anything about Daniel Quinn and his book called Ishmael, then you have a leg up on the ideas and styles that motivate a very visible, elusive artist who goes by the same name — Ishmael. Ishmael is known and not known. His work is highly visible, but he himself is pretty much invisible. Up to now, he’s worked in the dark, alone, under the cover of darkness. Graffiti was his first discipline, the influences of which are apparent in every piece he makes. His new work is organic and haunting, referencing his rebellious creative history while dramatically signifying his shift toward fine art.”

Ishmael will be represented at the upcoming The Trillionaire Art Show/ Dance Party, to be held at MoDaddy’s (77A Biltmore Ave., Asheville) on Saturday, Oct. 23.

The exhibit showcases the work of six visionary artists from around the Southeast. “The show will feature the latest developments in the artist’s careers. Music and art will meld together for an unforgettable journey.”

Other artists represented include:
• El Kamino. According to Flatcolor Gallery, El Kamino is “an American painter hailing from the state of Virginia. Becoming involved with graffiti in the mid nineties, he has developed a signature style that has taken on many forms over the years. While maintaining a presence in the world of wall painting, he is a veteran of DIY art shows; displaying canvases in small towns across the south east. An avid fisherman, his gallery work focuses on the animals he encounters along the creeks and rivers he frequents.”

Ted Harper. Read about Asheville artist Harper’s work here. He has shown at PUSH gallery and his work can be found outside BoBo Gallery.

Anson Cyr. Google Charleston-based Cyr’s name and you find reports of arrests (“Christmas Day Vandal!”) as well as high praise. Read about Outer Space, the venue voted “best hipster hangout in Charleston,” which Cyr co-founded, here.

Nate Brown (his work is pictured above). “Some call it vandalizing and others call it art but for Nathan Brown, it’s a gift,” says AmpedUp Mag. “‘Graffiti Nerd’ turned artist and now a successful graphic designer has taken Nashville by storm.”

• Photographer Colby Rabon

Music provided by Jared Carman who will spin “an awesome set of Conscious Trap Rap, Hip-hop, dub step & soul.” 10 p.m., $2 suggested donation, ages 21+.

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City, county officials ruminate on budget “sugar” and economic peril

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Early this morning, in the food court of the Biltmore Square mall, members of the Council of Independent Business Owners gathered to hear elected officials from Buncombe County and the city of Asheville summarize their situations and goals.

The setting was perhaps appropriate, as the mall has seen businesses leave and many spots in the food court were shuttered. The economic downturn was a major topic of discussion.

Asheville City Council member Jan Davis said the financial situation has put the city in sometimes dire strait — facing a $5 million deficit — and he believes the situation could be spreading.

“Merrimon Avenue is blighted, it’s shutting down, Patton Avenue west of the river is blighted, the blight is spreading to downtown,” Davis observed. “I’ve seen downtown revive. We don’t want to go back to the other end of the scale, and it can happen.”

Davis also called for cooperation with the county and took aim at comments by Buncombe commissioners’ Chair David Gantt to the Asheville Citizen-Times that the city couldn’t expect “a sugar daddy” in the county.

“Beyond the rhetoric and the ‘sugar daddy’ comments, we need trust and cooperation,” Davis said, adding that the mayor and Council are “asking for partnerships, opportunities that benefit both our citizens. Our doors are open.”

In response to CIBO members advising the city to cut more items they view as frivolous, Davis defended city spending on buses and greenways, asserting that buses help workers get to their jobs and “without them, you’ll have a whole other problem,” while “ when you can go down and see 5,000 people using the greenways on the weekend; that indicates something that our citizens support.”

He also defended a controversial vote against adopting domestic partnership benefits in concept but stated he was against how the measure had been raised.

“It was a process thing, not a morality issue; I didn’t like how it got there,” Davis said. “The city’s doing an assessment of its health care costs and I think it would have been less divisive to bring it up then.”

He also said that while no one on Council wanted to raise property taxes, it might have to be considered. “I don’t advocate tax increases right now, but the time may come when that’s necessary to keep this a good place to live.”

Davis’ description of the budget situation stood in contrast to that of the county, as Vice Chair Bill Stanley, who took the podium afterwards, observed, “We’re in pretty good shape. We don’t have a deficit. We have a good fund balance.”

Not everything is sweetness and light, however, and Stanley noted that social services expenditures for the county have drastically increased due to the economy, with the demand for food stamps tripling. He’s also concerned that the state could raid more county funds and sources of revenue to meet its own budget demands. “The state is hurt, and they’re going to hurt us.”

For those reasons, he said, he advocated the county stay away from “rules and regulations that limit people and businesses getting work,” and while endorsing more city-county cooperation, he said the county’s fund balance wasn’t the way to do it.

“Our sugar might just taste like licorice,” he cautioned.

Last in front of the gathered business people was Council member Gordon Smith, who built on the themes of city-county cooperation and says he sees potential for Asheville becoming a “high-tech regional center.”

“There are things we can do as a city to make ourselves more attractive so that when businesses like Google are looking to site new projects, Asheville is an attractive place,” he said. “If you look at the cities where these high-tech jobs are concentrated in — San Francisco, Austin, Minneapolis — these are places that are inclusive, diverse. They have multiple modes of transportation and housing you can afford.”

Specifically, Smith said he was communicating with Council members about how to best pursue getting one of Google’s recently proposed super-fast broadband networks, and he added that it will take the cooperation of multiple county governments, the city and organizations like CIBO for the push to have a chance of success.

Smith also said that the city plans to deal with its budget situation by cutting costs and raising fees, and that raising property taxes is a last resort.

“We need to have exhausted every last possibility before we even look at that,” he said. “Because that’s something that hits everybody and it hits people hard.”

—David Forbes, staff writer

13 thoughts on “City, county officials ruminate on budget “sugar” and economic peril

  1. J

    I wonder if Gordon realized another connection those cities all have: major universities.

    It’s the same reason why RTP also attracts many high paying, technologically advanced jobs. There are three very solid universities within a stone’s throw of each other.

    With Warren Wilson, UNCA, Montreat, AB-Tech, WCU, and a bevy of community colleges, Asheville has the potential to draw many high tech jobs, as we have solid educational facilities.

    Pretty crafty of ol’ Gordo to use job recruitment as a way of pushing personal policy. I don’t think Glaxo Smith Kline chose RTP because of it’s greenways or its avantgarde bus system.

    What does Davis mean by saying Merrimon is blighted? It seems pretty robust to me.

  2. AS

    I don’t get the “Merrimon Avenue is blighted” comment, either. If it were maybe the traffic would ease, though.

  3. UNaffiliated Voter

    I hope the esteemed Councilman Smith can realize that we have NO WHERE NEAR the DENSITY of the cities he mentioned???

    ‘J’ you are correct…the proximity of the RTP limits WNC ability to compete in that arena…

    Merrimon blighted? West Patton REALLY is…seems like all those commercial spaces would get upgraded at some point…hoped the RUSH Fitness Complex would jumpstart gentrification.

  4. Betty Cloer Wallace

    RTP had a “rain man” in Jim Hunt who recruited many of those large companies (some even company headquarters), and the planners made the whole area look like a greenway by leaving the terrain natural. Asheville/Buncombe needs a good “rain man” and a grand vision like that, one that can help solidify our area as a good place to live without negatively affecting our historic and cultural identity.

    We need to think of ourselves with more of a can-bake-it-ourselves attitude, as Gordon Smith suggested, rather than sounding like welfare cases with our hands out begging. Art on city buses and employee partner benefits are mere crumbs compared to the larger pie, and we seem to be spending far too much time fighting over crumbs.

    I wondered, too, as J mentioned, why Jan Davis thinks Merrimon is “blighted” and “shutting down.” There are a few empty spaces, but it seems robust, if not thriving, especially when compared with other corridors.

    And as for Biltmore Square Mall, it is not typical or representational of the regional economy. It has its own set of problems that preceded the most recent economic downturn.

  5. AvlResident

    Betty Cloer Wallace hits the nail on the head about the need for “rain men” (and women) and the “crumbs” that our city council is fighting over.

    Terry Sanford also had a significant role in the development of Research Triangle Park.

    Asheville/Buncombe seems to be seriously devoid of leadership now. Do any of our state representatives actually live in the city and have the city’s interests in mind? Or is it only the county’s interests – and political clout – that get considered?

    Jan Davis said, “Our door is open.” That sounds like the city council is waiting for county officials and state officials to come to them with suggestions about how the city can be helped.

  6. Politics Watcher

    Do either Bruce Goforth or Patsy Keever live within the city limits? Other of our state senators and representatives? Perhaps the Coalition of Asheville Neighborhoods could organize some candidate forums (and incumbent forums) to ask our reps how they are going to help the city down in Raleigh? Who speaks for Asheville (and not just Buncombe County) in the legislature?

  7. Betty Cloer Wallace

    Asheville/Buncombe could take some lessons from New Orleans, a city that has historically recovered, over and over, from all sorts of devastation. New Orleans has done it by being INCLUSIVE of everyone regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, or cultural heritage—not by having small narrow-minded people try to set the agenda for the city by EXCLUDING people.

  8. I too question the “Merrimon is blighted” statement. sure there are some empty buildings, and it looks like the Deal Buick site is going vacant gain…most of the vacant buildings are obsolete, ticky tacky looking places. Newer buildings look ok at htis point.

    This is radical, and it’s not going to happen, but I say: bulldoze those obsolete buildings, jackhammer the parking lots, get back to the soil and let nature take over.

  9. Reality Check

    Davyne, the idea of making Merrimon a beautiful corridor with trees and park-like areas interspersed among the commercial buildings (and no power/telephone lines), rather like W.T. Weaver is a great idea. Any ideas about wealthy philanthropists to buy up all the vacant property and make this happen? At least the Rhodes family “donated” their still-wooded property (that is, they received many millions of dollars directly from UNCA, plus another several million dollars in charitable contribution tax credits.)
    Merrimon Ave is going to be an everlasting problem for the city.

  10. I was just on Merrimon……there are just a few closed down business…no more than there were in the during the big bubble.

    The most everlasting problem see is, it’s too narrow. Those light poles are ominously close to the street. And it’s too busy. It’s now where near as tacky as Patton, though. I’ve got my fingers crossed that it doesn’t turn into Patton # 2.

  11. J

    Merrimon is about to get busier. There’s a current rezoning application in to allow a 60 unit development on the two acres up behind the Post Office.

    The irony is that the current zoning allows for the undeveloped property to be used as a park and/or greenway, whereas the new zoning sought does not allow for park or greenway usage.

  12. J

    I believe Mountain Housing is the developer. So my guess is that it will be 60 units of workforce housing.

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EPA repeals rule that restricts mountaintop-removal mining

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Despite vocal opposition from environmental groups, the public and politicians, the Environmental Protection Agency repealed a stream-buffer-zone rule that — since 1983 — had prohibited surface coal-mining activities within 100 feet of flowing streams.

Opponents say the repeal clears the way for an expansion of mountaintop removal. “The EPA’s decision is a slap in the face of Appalachian communities, which have already endured enough injustice from mountaintop removal,” said Vernon Haltom, co-director of the West Virginia-based Coal River Mountain Watch. “My home and thousands of others are now in greater jeopardy.”

The repeal was proposed by the Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining (OSM), which sought written approval from the EPA before it finalizing it. On Dec. 2, EPA administrator Steven Johnson signed off on the proposal.

Last month, Kentucky Gov. Steven Beshear, Attorney General Jack Conway, and Reps. Ben Chandler and John Yarmuth each wrote letters to Johnson asking him not to allow the repeal. Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen also voiced concerns on behalf of his state.

“The regions most affected by this rule, in the Appalachian Coal Belt, are some of the poorest in the nation,” said Lane Boldman with the Sierra Club Cumberland (Kentucky) Chapter. “All they are asking for is some fundamental protection of their waterways so that they can continue to fish and swim downstream.”

In October, a nationwide poll on mountaintop-removal mining found that two out of three likely voters opposed the rule change. An Oct. 21 NY Times editorial noted that “more than 1,200 miles of streams in Appalachia already have been buried or destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining.” And then-presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama both voiced their opposition to the practice.

“Once again, the Environmental Protection Agency has failed to live up to its name. With less than two months left in power, the Bush administration is determined to cement its legacy as having the worst environmental record in history,” said Joan Mulhern, senior legislative counsel at Earthjustice.

By some measures, more than 400 mountaintops have been stripped of trees and flattened, 1,200 miles of mountain streams buried under rubble. The forests that once cloaked 387,000 acres of the world’s most ancient mountain range have been razed. If the industry is allowed to proceed at its current pace, an area the size of Delaware will have been lost, say environmental groups.

— Margaret Williams, contributing editor

About Margaret Williams
Editor Margaret Williams first wrote for Xpress in 1994. An Alabama native, she has lived in Western North Carolina since 1987 and completed her Masters of Liberal Arts & Sciences from UNC-Asheville in 2016. Follow me @mvwilliams

12 thoughts on “EPA repeals rule that restricts mountaintop-removal mining

  1. kentuckyfarmgirl

    As Bush leaves, imaginging himself to be Abe Lincoln in his alcoholic haze, the money grubbers around him push this through. Of all environmental catastrophes, chopping off the top of a mountain and raining down toxic s*** on everything below (people, water sources, fish, wildlife), and ruining that mountain FOREVER, this is one of the worst. To think all of the affected states’ governors opposed it, and that EPA guy didn’t care at all. What SOBs they really are. Maybe Obama can reverse it FAST. Bush will go down as one of the most hated administrations in history.

  2. slowlocal

    This is an outrage!! Hey, Ky Farmgirl, I’m a Ky woman and I know you know how tragic this is for our beautiful Commonwealth, which has already been repeatedly raped. Obama is asking us all to give input on the change we want to see, and we must all call for this to be an immediate reversal. In the meantime, I refer you to Wendell Berry’s call for civil disobedience on “I Love Mountains Day”, February 14th, 2008 in his speech on the steps of the Kentucky capitol in opposition to mountaintop removal:
    “Kentucky conservationists are not the first people to have to confront their own
    helplessness before an alien government. Others have done so, and you know some of
    their names. Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King are two of them; there have
    been many others. Their solution to the problem of powerlessness is to make
    powerlessness a power. The name of this solution is non-violent resistance or insistence,
    including civil disobedience. If your government will not rise to the level of common
    decency, if it will not deal fairly, if it will not protect the land and people, if it will not
    fully and openly debate the issues, then you have to get in the government’s way. You
    have you forbid it to ignore you. You have to provide it with two new choices: either it
    must grant you the consideration that it rightfully owes you, or it must expose itself
    openly as a government not representative of the people but owned by the privileged
    few.” For the full text, see http://www.kftc.org/our-work/general-assembly/stream-saver-bill/Wendell Berry 2-14-08.pdf/view?searchterm=wendell berry

  3. Reality Check

    Luckily, it will be repealed immediately when Obama takes over. Its really a waste of time for W. Republicans punishing the environment again.

  4. Reality Check

    There will be no need for a court challenge luckily. It won’t last the first quarter of 2009. The court challenge would take much longer and cost big money. Obama will solve the issue for free.

  5. Dionysis

    It’s not just this disgraceful ruling from the Environmental Pollution Agency; a quick search will reveal that Bush is pushing through every anti-environmental act he can, from building coal plants next to national parks, opening up what’s left of our national forests for road building to rape the land, to allowing uranium mining near rivers and fragile ecosystems to exempting government agencies from compliance with environmental protections to removing protections for endangered animal life. This world-class criminal is bound and determined to leave as much of a mess as he can on the way out while lining even more the pockets of big business.

    Wait and see; someone will try and defend this lunacy.

  6. slowlocal

    Glad for your confidence, reality check. In the interim, however, there is plenty of destruction that will occur quickly. On the ground, W’s “waste of time” translates into very real destruction of land and waterways, and the health and welfare of people, fauna and flora.

    It’s likely the Sierra Club Cumberland Chapter, the Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, and perhaps the Kentucky Resources Council will challenge in court, but that takes time as well.

  7. kentuckyfarmgirl

    Problem is, and the Bush Admin. knows this well, it isn’ that easy to undo these rules, for procedural reasons. Whichever way he tries to do it, it takes a lot of time and energy … and damage is done in the meantime. They can ruin plenty of the natural environment in a year for months. Greedy b$$$###s. The governors of the affected states all wrote letters, but we know who owns the Republicanm party and this fraud of an administration. The people showing up to defend it, are fools. Sorry, but they are. The quote below is from http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081203/OPINION/812030331/1037/NEWS04

    President-elect Barack Obama’s administration has pledged to do all it can to prevent the “midnight rules changes” from going into effect, but it faces a daunting task. To undo them, it has three options. It can begin the rule review process again, a process that takes years, use a congressional amendment to the overturn the rule, or employ a legislative process to express formal disproval with the change, a tactic used but once before.

  8. Margaret Williams

    Keep an eye on the Last Days of Bush! But it’s up to us to push for the overturn of rules like this. It’s up to us to push for change in our attitudes toward climate change, global warming, etc. It starts at home.

    What can we do locally to make a difference?

  9. kentuckyfarmgirl

    What can we do locally? Support Margaret Williams, who has LONG written about these issues! Thanks MountanX.

  10. Margaret Williams

    Thank you! but now I feel old. Besides, I’m a newbie to this enviro beat. Run a search here at Xpress, and you’ll find a long list of good enviro reporting from former Green Scene editor, Rebecca Bowe, and a host of other Xpress writers over the years.

    If you haven’t already, visit our Community forums for an exchange of ideas on environmental issues, and tweak our ear on the issues that need covering.

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Justin Lin (“Fast & Furious”) will direct a remake of the 1982 martial-arts classic “Shaolin Temple”, according to Twitchfilm.

Lin will make his Chinese-language debut on the movie, produced by Beijing Enlight Pictures Co. Ltd. in partnership with the Shaolin Temple.

The film, to be shot in 3-D, likely won’t shoot before 2016.

Lin is currently attached to direct the fifth “Bourne” film for Universal.


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When up-and-coming District Attorney Mitch Brockden (Dominic Cooper) commits a fatal hit-and-run, he feels compelled to throw the case against the accused criminal who was found with the body and blamed for the crime. Following the trial, Mitch's worst fears come true when he realizes that he acquitted a guilty man, and he soon finds himself on the hunt for the killer before more victims pile up. Also starring Samuel L. Jackson, we have three exclusive photos from the upcoming thriller Reasonable Doubt before it hits On Demand and is in theaters January 17.

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The Avengers 2's potential South African shoot may hint at Black Panther's involvement South African film producer Anant Singh, who also serves as the chairman of Cape Town Film Studios, revealed on a local radio program that Marvel Studios has expressed interest in shooting The Avengers 2 in Cape Town, South Africa.

While nothing has been confirmed yet, this may indicate that Black Panther will be a part of this superhero ensemble.

Back in April, actor Morris Chestnut revealed that Black Panther (a.k.a. T'Challa), may be a part of The Avengers 2, although nothing has been confirmed yet by the studio. We also reported last month that the production will take place in London's Pinewood-Shepperton Studios in early 2014. Since the superhero sequel already has a studio lined up to shoot in, it seems possible that they may shoot exteriors in South Africa, which lends more credence to the Black Panther rumors.

T'Challa hails from the fictional African country of Wakanda, and possesses super-human strength, speed, stamina, reflexes, and heightened senses. Director Joss Whedon confirmed earlier today that Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch will be included in his sequel. Will Black Panther be along for the ride as well? Hopefully we will get confirmation of this character's inclusion soon.


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100+ Top International Public Health Fellowships & Programs

Post graduate fellowships provide specific training and study for students who have already earned their graduate degree. These short term employment opportunities are structured to provide significant work experience, and Fellows often take on a great deal of responsibility quickly to become fully immersed in their study. Generally, fellows are provided with unique experiences that are not typically available to someone starting out in an entry-level position. This experiential learning component varies depending upon the fellowship program.

Below we have provided a list of some of the top Public Health Fellowships opportunities.

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Academy Health Delivery System Science Fellowship Post-Doctoral Visit
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Sunday, January 19, 2014

2014 SHOT Show Wrap Up

I finally  arrived home late yesterday afternoon from Las Vegas. The shuttle ride to the airport, the flight to Seattle, and the shuttle ride from Seattle's  airport to Whidbey Island all seemed long, tiring, and best of all, uneventful! It had been a long several days at the SHOT  show,  but it was well worth the trip.  I made some new business contacts, renewed contact with companies that I have dealt with in the past, got a chance to see some new and interesting devices ( not all of which were firearms),  met and visited with some old friends, and met a number of new people too!

 what is the likelihood, you think, of ever seeing me wearing an Olympic medal, let alone a whole bunch of them?  You would think the probability would be somewhere in the negative number region!  However, the radio talk show host Lars Larssen,  was broadcasting his radio show from the SHOT  show  one afternoon, and is broadcast booth, rather than being on the main show floor, was down at the end of a long hallway where most people did not even know that the radio show was going on.  I saw a few people down at the end of the hallway, and being curious, decided to walk down there and see what was going on.  To my surprise,  Lars  was interviewing Gov. Rick Perry  from Texas live!  I did not get a chance to talk to Gov. Perry but listening to the interview was very interesting.  I could not help but to think that I wish there was some way to clone Gov. Perry and bring him to Washington state and let him run the state too!

 The next person for Lars to interview after Gov. Perry was Kim Rhode,  the incredibly talented shotgun shooter.  Kim  has been on the Olympic team several times and has managed to bring home a bunch of Olympic medals. After  the interview was over,  I got a chance to talk to Kim myself.  Kim has been shooting and hunting all of her life, and actually got her start with a shotgun hunting ducks.  I suspect the ducks never had a chance!  After speaking with Kim for a bit, I asked if I could have my picture taken with her, and she said sure, and then hung her Olympic medal medals around my neck for the picture! WOW,  What an honor!  I met a lot of really nice people at the shot show,  but Kim must be one of the nicest of all!

Kim Rhode and I. (WOW)
since I was attending the SHOT Show  as media as well as a member of NSSF,  I had access to the press room. All of the posts that I sent out from the show were done in the press room using the Wi-Fi that they had set up for us there.  A big thanks goes to NISSAN for sponsoring the press room.  I have never paid a lot of attention to Nissan in the past, but their new TITAN series of pickup trucks powered by Cummins diesels and built here in the United States certainly do look nice!

Peter Hoffmann of Caliber Magazine and I in the Press Room.
while I was sitting in the press room drinking a cup of coffee  I struck up a conversation with Peter Hoffmann  of Caliber magazine in Germany.  I was familiar with Caliber magazine from my trips to Holland for the European steel championships.  This picture of Peter and I  is especially cool sense I was able to get the incredibly talented photographer Yamil Sued to take the picture for me. Yamil  Is a fantastic photographer,  specializing in firearms and shooting sports competitions,  and product photography too.  I first met Yamil  quite a few years ago  at the steel world championships  in Piru,  California.  We had a good laugh  when I handed my camera (a basic KODAK)  to Yamil  and ask him with a straight face if he knew how to run a digital camera!  Anyhow,  Peter and I had an enjoyable conversation, and he and I both enjoy picking up older automobiles and fixing them up a bit. Peter and I plan to keep in touch, and maybe, even, we may meet up at the European steel championships in Holland this year.

That pretty much wraps up the SHOT  show coverage for this year, but if I find any other pictures or think of anything interesting I will try to get a post up about it.

At Sunday, January 19, 2014 8:54:00 PM, Blogger David aka True Blue Sam said...

Thanks for the great coverage! I wish I could have been there. David

At Tuesday, January 21, 2014 2:43:00 PM, Anonymous Sascha said...

Interesting article about the shot!
I'm very looking forward to meet you again in May in Winterswijk!

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