http://ashvegas.squarespace.com/journal/Ashvegas: The Blogashevilleblog.comen-USSquarespace Site Server v5.8.2 (http://www.squarespace.com/)AlanSun, 15 Nov 2009 19:58:32 +0000http://ashvegas.squarespace.com/journal/2009/9/16/web-site-criticism-targets-miller-manheimer-and-mumpower-in.html#comments18051:122862:comment/6287535I think you will find vasectomized and childfree Bothwell in closer to the same camp than you realize. He is a homebuilder himself and has never generally denounced development in any wholesale way.
Antidevelopment is not the end all of municipal prgressivism. we need a fresh dose of cultural progressivism here without the NIMBYism, and Mannheimer and Bothewell can provide that.
I love that Mannheimer is now the swing vote, Making a majaority with Bothwell smith and Newman on gay benefits and another majority with Bellamy, Davis and Russell on supply side housing and property rights.]]>DadSun, 15 Nov 2009 19:35:32 +0000http://ashvegas.squarespace.com/journal/2009/11/12/photo-exhibition-13-stories-the-windsor-hotel.html#comments18051:122862:comment/6287472miciSun, 15 Nov 2009 18:45:16 +0000http://ashvegas.squarespace.com/journal/2009/11/12/sex-offenders-prohibited-in-pack-square-park.html#comments18051:122862:comment/6287299Politics WatcherSun, 15 Nov 2009 18:08:20 +0000http://ashvegas.squarespace.com/journal/2009/11/12/asheville-city-councilman-elect-cecil-bothwell.html#comments18051:122862:comment/6287200Cecil BothwellSun, 15 Nov 2009 13:23:23 +0000http://ashvegas.squarespace.com/journal/2009/11/12/asheville-city-councilman-elect-gordon-smith.html#comments18051:122862:comment/6286397
Such a plan would presumably follow the lead of private employers who provide such benefits and would require proof of a contractual relationship (co-ownership of property, joint bank account, joint credit accounts, shared custody or child adoption, etc. and etc. -- precise rules to be determined) extending for a minimum of 6 months. A change in status would remove eligibility and a new application for benefits would probably require a 12 month waiting period, with the same rules.

This follows a general trend of separating marriage as a religious matter from marriage as a contractual matter, which is actually the only reason government got involved in marriage in the first place. The government is concerned about property ownership, apportionment of inheritance, apportionment of debt and, of course, tax obligations—not who loves whom or under which tradition the marriage was created. It has traditionally yielded to religions concerning the baseline rules: i.e. Catholics were prohibited from remarriage after divorce, which pushed some Catholics to cohabit and thus give up their joint Social Security and other government entitlements. On the other hand, of course, it rejected some religious positions: i.e. Mormons who practiced polygamy could not apportion government benefits to multiple spouses.]]>bbSun, 15 Nov 2009 02:27:46 +0000http://ashvegas.squarespace.com/journal/2009/11/12/sex-offenders-prohibited-in-pack-square-park.html#comments18051:122862:comment/6285405relievedSat, 14 Nov 2009 23:12:49 +0000http://ashvegas.squarespace.com/journal/2009/11/11/heath-shuler-quarterbacking-a-charity-football-event-and-def.html#comments18051:122862:comment/6281542WhateverSat, 14 Nov 2009 21:51:46 +0000http://ashvegas.squarespace.com/journal/2009/11/12/asheville-city-councilwoman-elect-esther-manheimer.html#comments18051:122862:comment/6281098eemillaSat, 14 Nov 2009 18:42:24 +0000http://ashvegas.squarespace.com/journal/2009/11/12/tupelo-honey-to-hire-70-for-new-hendersonville-road-location.html#comments18051:122862:comment/6280361eemillaSat, 14 Nov 2009 18:39:20 +0000http://ashvegas.squarespace.com/journal/2009/11/12/whats-going-on-next-to-chilis-in-arden.html#comments18051:122862:comment/6280348KenSat, 14 Nov 2009 16:52:01 +0000http://ashvegas.squarespace.com/journal/2009/11/12/tupelo-honey-to-hire-70-for-new-hendersonville-road-location.html#comments18051:122862:comment/6278580
So-- the company could not invest in its employees' health insurance, but they've got the capital to invest in a whole new restaurant?]]>KenSat, 14 Nov 2009 16:49:35 +0000http://ashvegas.squarespace.com/journal/2009/11/12/asheville-builder-to-auction-off-house-in-unusual-short-sale.html#comments18051:122862:comment/6278573
(though I don't need the fourth bedroom)

3 BR, 1.5 BA would be fine by me.]]>KenSat, 14 Nov 2009 16:47:23 +0000http://ashvegas.squarespace.com/journal/2009/11/12/asheville-city-councilwoman-elect-esther-manheimer.html#comments18051:122862:comment/6278565
There's a certain EdwardGoreyesque look about Manheimer's garb, posture, and umbrella.]]>ThePhanSat, 14 Nov 2009 14:43:33 +0000http://ashvegas.squarespace.com/journal/2009/11/12/asheville-city-councilman-elect-cecil-bothwell.html#comments18051:122862:comment/6278196momforequalrightsSat, 14 Nov 2009 12:26:39 +0000http://ashvegas.squarespace.com/journal/2009/11/12/asheville-city-councilman-elect-gordon-smith.html#comments18051:122862:comment/6277944