offer, often competitive in nature, to set a price for a product or service
JLF’s Health Care Policy Analyst, Jordan Roberts, explains how an auction-based system of purchasing health care puts the consumer in charge and exerts pressure on providers to compete for patients based…
Jackson County has received five bids for a new tourism director. All are from firms, not people, and two are from out-of-county.
Contenders for a waste hauling contract don’t like the way Jackson County officials handled the bidding process. Both sides have lawyers, and a third round of bidding has been discussed.…
Carolina Journal’s Dan Way reports here on efforts by some Wake County commissioners to ensure that construction of new schools is done in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible.…
Skin feeling a little tingly? It’s BID creep. Remember that creepy Business Improvement District whose pursuit team got everybody to put their guard down by saying their proposal, amidst budget…
Tonight Asheville City Council approved a framework for the Business Improvement District. They never approve anything, they just approve parts in concept, and afore long, the approvals morph into mandates…
Tuesday, July 17, at 5:30 p.m., in the US Cellular Center (formerly the Civic Center), the City of Asheville will be receiving public comment about the BID, with emphasis on…
A drum beat wildly amongst other sounds audible in the chambers of Asheville City Council. I supposed former vice mayor, Chris Peterson, had hired a bunch of fake Occupiers to…
The Buncombe County Commissioners will be holding a public hearing on their budget Tuesday. Amidst the “FY2013 Outside Agency Budget Requests” is a planned donation of $200,000 toward the BID.…
All right, Paul, how about 45 cents? OK, we got 45 here, anybody got 50? Fifty, 50, looking for 50, 50 cent, 50 cent, fiddy fiddy fiddy ay oh ay…