“$140 for someone who owns a $350,000 home. That’s going out to dinner two nights for a couple,” remarked Asheville City Councilman Cecil Bothwell. He was speaking at this week’s work session about the impact a 4-cent municipal city tax increase would have on citizens.

County revals just pushed my rent up 10%. Maybe an increased city tax can make that 20%. For some of us, that’s a week’s worth of groceries. Now, who wouldn’t starve one week a month for greenways? Huh, huh?