Special to WorldTribune Commentary by Tamara Parker, June 8, 2020 [Editor’s Note: A group of parents in Buncombe County in North Carolina called on the county sheriff and all school board members to resign after they were restricted from attending and speaking at recent school board meetings. In a press release sent to WorldTribune.com, the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 10, 2018 A UNC-Asheville English professor has been charged with stealing political signs, including some reading “Drain the Swamp” and “Vote Republican,” a report said. Dr. Amanda Wray, an associate professor in the university’s English Department, turned herself in on Oct. 7 at the Buncombe County Detention Facility, according to a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 30, 2018 The chairman of the Buncombe County, North Carolina Republican Party called out Asheville City Schools for “liberal institutional bias” and “tolerated discrimination” against conservative students, a report said. The Asheville Tribune published a letter from county GOP chair Carl Mumpower to Asheville City Schools Superintendent Denise Patterson in which […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 14, 2018 To mark the one-month anniversary of the Parkland, Florida school massacre, students at Asheville City Schools in North Carolina were permitted to take part in a nationwide walkout to protest gun violence, according to a local news commentary about this and other issues parents are having with the public […]