MAIN News Archives for August 2001

	UNC tuition increased 9 percent
	Pay-day lending ends tonight
	NC job growth stagnant
	New deal may save clean air bill
	Fish advisory lifted for Pigeon River
	Brevard festival features films by women
	Hispanic culture growing in NC
	Contractors to continue Dupont Forest suit
	Budget crisis hurting teachers
	Group hopes to preserve more mountain land
	Looking Glass Falls closed for trail repairs
	Consumers on financial acid trip?
	How to be a satisfied media consumer
	Catawba anti-immigrant rally sparks response
	Democracy and the Wealth Gap
	New River saved 25 years ago
	Developer gives up fight for Dupont Forest
	Redistricting plans coming into focus
	Proposed RV park threatens Little Tennessee
	Goombay Festival set for Aug. 24-26
	Helms to announce retirement
	Cable ISP on the brink
	Henderson debates stream buffers
	Counties must provide assisted-living records - Buncombe leads state in access
	Budget surplus drained
	MAIN members featured in USA Today
	Tax on seed, fertilizer considered
	Environment takes back seat to budget crisis
	Underground gas tanks still leaking
	Sewage discharge into French Broad targetted
	"Riverkeeper" named for French Broad
	Organic Apple Field Day set for Aug. 29
	I-26 widening may hinge on environmental regs
	Is the corporation obsolete?
	"Gang of Eight" oppose Easley tax plan
	Duke seeks new licenses for nuclear plants
	Affordable housing in disguise
	NC official sees slow economic recovery
	Easley to offer tax plan tonight
	Franklin Graham blasts Andie MacDowell film
	Haywood to launch bus service Sept. 4
	Watauga residents protest asphalt plants
	Governors urge end to e-tax ban
	Madison flood damaged hiking trails
	NC city tests porous concrete to stem pollution
	Study reveals growing "web bug" surveillance
	Bird lore and superstition
	A tribute to Robert Bushyhead
	Nader praises 'civic courage' of Denver Post
	Hendersonville trolley is catching on
	NC air quality show to air Aug. 14, 10 p.m.
	Craft co-op celebrates 25 years
	Park may ban ramp harvest
	Local reps discuss state budget crisis
	Mars Hill play revisits local legend
	Opinion: Roadless areas now
	AOL, MSN rank at bottom of customer survey
	Blue Cross to raise rates sharply
	DMV offers more online services
	Dissident Democrats may hold key to state tax hike
	Family visitation center to open in Asheville
	Census error may cost NC $162 million
	Study links heat with sprawl
	Madison County awaits governor's decision on flood relief
	1990s boom economy bypassed many in the Carolinas
	Congress seeks energy task force records
	Asheville election candidates listed
	NC leads nation in child immunization
	Many interesting races across WNC
	Cradle of Forestry to present air quality seminar
	Local artists to raise $$$ for Parkway
	GOP retaliates against Mitchell rep
	River reclassification hearing gets heated
	"Youth Day of Peace" to unite kids, seniors
	Tunnel repairs could slow Smokies tourism

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