Today is a slow day for local news. How slow is it? Why, it is almost as slow as the payback time for the solar panels Henderson County will install to heat water for the detention center. Well, according to the article, the net gains are already returning, as the investment was made with free porkulus. $71,000 of it will be spent on the design, purchase, and installation of solar panels. The county will save $3000 annually until the fifteen-year maintenance contract expires. You may argue the county may never break even, but who cares? The dollar is supposed to be destroyed long before anybody’s going to notice.
While on the subject of payback time, the daily stories about what local celebrities think about what may, might, must, can, could potentially happen with proposed redistricting continue.
On another matter of time, it is a good thing people have birthdays. That way, there is a reason for making good material from good thinkers newsworthy. It is further a good thing that Milton Friedman was not born February 29. If you will be in Raleigh this Friday, you may enjoy an event hosted at the JLF headquarters.
Lastly, there is a heart-warming story in the Hendersonville Times-News about a citizen who acted fast, expended some effort, and took advantage of small-town amenities, like knowing the assistant fire chief, to save a person in dire need.
