"Vegan Barbecue Meat Brand Opens World’s Largest Plant-Based Smokehouse"
https://vegnews.com/2021/3/vegan-meat-brand-plant-based-smokehouse
"Blue Ridge Parkway views in Haywood, Watauga counties preserved forever"
On the origin of "cackalacky":
https://www.wfdd.org/story/carolina-curious-who-put-cackalacky-north-carolina
There was a lot of talk on the TV last night about how the District 9 NC House race was so close. District 9 has been a Republican stronghold since 1963. Some posited that the Democrats only came so close because they ran a moderate candidate.
WataugaWatch (a local political blog) has a different take: http://blog.wataugawatch.net/2019/09/dan-mccready-and-lack-of-democratic.html
The decrease in Democratic turnout is interesting.
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