Published today was an annual report from the City of Asheville to its taxpayers. You may supply your own string of synergistic colloquialisms to explain why. The statist document celebrates:

• Partnering with the federal government through CDBG and HOME grants to create 584 affordable housing units, provide human services to 6000, and assist 40 microbusinesses.
• “Leveraging” privately-funded affordable housing with $1.6 million from the Housing Trust Fund.
• Launching a GIS web site to “strengthen quality economic development investment.”
• Seeking RFP’s for developing city-owned land consistently with council’s strategic goals.
• “Committing” over $500,000 in federal CDBG and HOME grants toward assisting the homeless.
• “Promoting emissions-reducing transportation options.”
• “Encouraging biking as a transportation option” with the Comprehensive Bicycle Transportation Plan.
• “Partnering with large employers in the Asheville area to promote public transportation” and “encourage employees to ride the bus to work.”
• “Receiving” $2.1 million for the purchase of hybrid buses and accepting a federal grant to create an Environmental Management System.
• Assigning detectives to “gain intelligence, suppress, and catalogue gang activity,” and participate in “gang education presentations.”
• Funding a Downtown Master Planning process.
• Partnering with the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project to create the Asheville City Market on public property.
• Securing $800,000 in federal grants for the “identification and remediation” of Brownfields sites.
• “Developing a program to assist local manufacturers with major expansions,” and awarding corporate welfare to Unison.