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Asheville Considers The Future Of Its Confederate Monuments

WUNC | By Frank Stasio,
Amanda Magnus
Published June 16, 2020 at 12:03 PM EDT
This monument to Confederate soldiers in front of the Buncombe County courthouse is one of two slated to be removed
This monument to Confederate soldiers in front of the Buncombe County courthouse is one of two slated to be removed
This monument to Confederate soldiers in front of the Buncombe County courthouse is one of two slated to be removed
Credit Matt Bush/Blue Ridge Public Radio
This monument to Confederate soldiers in front of the Buncombe County courthouse is one of two slated to be removed

On Tuesday evening the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners will vote on the future of two Confederate monuments in downtown Asheville: a Robert E. Lee memorial in Pack Square and a monument honoring fallen Confederate soldiers outside the Buncombe County Courthouse. 

 

Host Frank Stasio talks to Blue Ridge Public Radio News Director Matt Bush about local officials' decisions about three Confederate monuments in downtown Asheville.

Last week Asheville’s city council unanimously voted to remove the two monuments. The United Daughters of the Confederacy own these two memorials, and if the resolution passes, the group will have 90 days to remove them. The commissioners will also vote on the Asheville City Council’s request for a task force to decide the future of the controversial Vance Monument in Pack Square. Host Frank Stasio gets the latest from Matt Bush, news director for Blue Ridge Public Radio. 

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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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Amanda Magnus
Amanda Magnus grew up in Maryland and went to high school in Baltimore. She became interested in radio after an elective course in the NYU journalism department. She got her start at Sirius XM Satellite Radio, but she knew public radio was for her when she interned at WNYC. She later moved to Madison, where she worked at Wisconsin Public Radio for six years. In her time there, she helped create an afternoon drive news magazine show, called Central Time. She also produced several series, including one on Native American life in Wisconsin. She spends her free time running, hiking, and roller skating. She also loves scary movies.
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