The following press releases were issued today (blubbering added):
- The City of Asheville announced Foster the People will be playing at the US Cellular Center. This is a great community-builder, as the group rose to stardom with their song about a loner kid wanting to shoot up his classmates. If you do not understand, yet, the song not only raises awareness, it helps create jobs for SRO’s.
- Lauren Bradley, who has served in many upper-level positions with the City of Asheville with nothing but the highest level of competence, has announced her departure. She will become the COO of the formidable legal powerhouse, the Van Winkle Law Firm. Vice mayor, mayoral aspirant, and Van Winklite herself Esther Manheimer often either recuses herself or explains why she doesn’t recuse herself from consideration of city business involving members of her law firm.
- And, as expected, Asheville City Council announced they will sue the General Assembly for letting all the red they see interfere with acceptance of physical limitations in demanding a rapid fork-over of the water system to the regional authority, which by holy decree will be legislated into full swing just eight days from now.
As an aside, a couple weeks ago, I racked my brain to try to find somebody in the know who would talk to me frankly about the water dispute. Would you believe I ran into the city’s water resources director while taking a walk, and just passed a big-wig from the MSD in a parking lot this evening? I didn’t bother to run either of them down, I just gave them a toothy grin and let them be. Dejected, I don’t believe histories of “just machines that make wise decisions.” We just buy into a group of stories we like or flock with our group. The ever-so community-minded emperor is either wearing red or blue.
