The WNC economy keeps shrinking

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   ellaminnowpea January 16, 2009

   Curras DOM is a wonderful restaurant! Exciting food, nice atmosphere, good service. As far as pricey, let’s all remember that food prices have gone way up in the past year. I had the Tres Puercos last Saturday night. It was delicious and perfectly cooked. If you haven’t been, go! If you’ve been, go again!

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   NewspaperJunkie January 13, 2009

   Since you worked there, perhaps you could tell us, are the publisher(s) and editor(s) of the Citizen-Times oblivious, unaware, ignorant or indifferent to some of the basic standards of good journalism? Are the reporters given no guidance? Why do they fill the paper with "filler," like the so-called "Staff Reports," which are verbatim press releases, and the repeated space expended on "police blotter" items? If they omitted these and used their reporters to actually cover stories, there might be room for something tor read in the paper that was not readily available elsewhere. I’m embarrassed for a reporter when he cites a Web site and when you click on it, you discover he has taken much of his story verbatim from the site. There are occasional examples of thorough reporting and good writing (John Boyle always seems to do a good job and there are others). Why aren’t the others mentored and coached?
   Again, my basic question: is it ignorance or indifference to simple ways (it seems to me) to make the paper, even in its diminished form, so much better without adding costs.

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   Jeremy January 13, 2009

   I’m with Chall. I don’t do dinner at Curras due to the price, but lunch is fantastic and reasonably priced. And that avocado margarita…Mmmmm!

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   TJK January 13, 2009

   Curras D.O.M is the name of the restaurant. From the XPress:

   “That’s why we call it D.O.M.,” Garcia says, referring to the denominacion de origen Mexico tag line that, in this case, translates roughly as “Mexican-ish.”

   There you go.

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   Lesley January 13, 2009

   Curras DOM is packed every time I’m there. They’ve also just started a series of Non-Profit Tuesdays. They donate 10% of all sales to area non-profits. AND, they have an upcoming Sunday brunch. Maybe the confusion is that they have begun to take Mondays off?

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   chall January 13, 2009

   Dom Curras has some fantastic food! It’s a bit pricey for dinner, but positively a bargain at lunchtime.

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   Miss Daisy January 13, 2009

   Is the headline: ‘I’ll ride this dinosaur til it dies’ overly optimistic?

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   Celo January 12, 2009

   What kind wok do you use?

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   Muddy Dog January 12, 2009

   Hey, sounds like John just jinx himself. There are more cuts coming and a larger amount at that. The word on the street is 12%. The only way to save the newspaper is to layoff the publisher and his 250k salary. How many newsroom employees would that salary save? And as an added bonus the Controller goes with him and next year you get the Christmas Party back. I am sure the publisher and controller in Greenville can handle the extra work since there will only be a few people still working in Asheville.

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    joey flash January 12, 2009

    you’d think the paper would appreciate the traffic

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