Asheville Citizen-Times writer Mark Barrett reported Vice Mayor Marc Hunt announced nobody was interested in taking over Bele Chere. That was an interesting choice of words. The city-run festival was taken over each of the past several years by a fray I will not recognize with additional descriptors, potential lawsuits associated therewith feeding my paranoia over why the festival truly was terminated. Does anybody believe the city wanted to drop the tourist magnet purely because it was a money drain?