Nov. 6 is election day, and in North Carolina, this will include local elections for the North Carolina House of Representatives, including one candidate, Jonathan Jordan. Jordan has been the Republican representative for Ashe and Watauga counties since 2011. Jordan will run for his fifth term this year. Jordan developed an interest in government after
A man with a past full of different interests and careers, Ray Russell makes his way toward the next hopeful chapter of his life by running as a Democrat for the House of Representatives 93rd District seat. “It will give me an opportunity to use the gift that I’ve been given and to give back to
Incumbent Watauga County commissioners and their challengers listened to local concerns during a roundtable discussion at the Blowing Rock American Legion on Thursday. With an even split between incumbent commissioners and challengers, each candidate was faced with pressing discussion topics, including questions about a full-time Blowing Rock ambulance service and finances for the new Blowing
A report from the USC Race and Equity Center released on Sept. 26, graded the status of education of black students at every four-year, non-specialized, public postsecondary institution in the nation. This report rated schools based on representation equality, gender equality, completion equality and the ratio of black students to black faculty. It then averaged each
While Boone Saloon served up drinks to locals, Democratic Congress delegate Denise. D (DD) Adams explained why she deserves to go to Washington D.C. Adams’ opponent in this election, Virginia Foxx, was invited to the event but did not attend, Andrew Strahan, co-coordinator of the Watauga area for campaign interns, said. Adams kicked off the
The under construction National Pan-Hellenic Plots and Garden will be officially dedicated at 10 a.m. Saturday, as part of the events for Homecoming Week. The ceremony will be located in the quad between I.G. Greer Hall, Roess Dining Hall, and the BB Dougherty Administration Building. Historically, the plots can be traced back to the end
At the 12th annual Homecoming Blood Drive, donors gave 1120 units of whole blood, with the goal of the drive being 1250 whole blood units. The Cirque du Appalachian: Dare to Give Blood Drive attracted 1222 registered donors, Maya Franklin, Red Cross communications manager for the North Carolina and South Carolina region, said. “The Homecoming
Ray Russell, candidate for the North Carolina House of Representatives 93rd District Seat, and his campaign hosted an “Education Summit” on Sunday at Appalachian Ski Mountain to share thoughts on how North Carolina can, and does, make education great. “This event gives us the opportunity to push out the details of our faults in education
Debates about where Appalachia is located, as well as what it is and is not, have made its influences increasingly hard to agree on. The amount of cultural diversity naturally existing in Appalachia is often dismissed at App State due to the “dominant narrative” so often discussed here. Coal mining, rural living and the “mountaineer”
Vaping products should be treated as an over-the-counter drug, which would group them with products like nicotine gums, lozenges and patches. App State regulation and North Carolina law consider e-cigarettes tobacco products because they contain nicotine. “Zero nicotine” products still contain nicotine, according to tests run by Dr. Ilona Jaspers, a toxicologist at the UNC
