Thus saith the local daily:

The city spent $50,000 of taxpayers’ money to buy a 0.04-acre tract and a 0.10-acre tract along the French Broad River.

The City of Asheville has been spending a lot of money on greenways for at least a decade. A mere $50,000 more shouldn’t cause the liberal media to label the expense “taxpayers’ money” – except we need to get the public fired into a frenzy to support the forfeiture of the city’s water system these days, right?