North Carolina’s new budget is, on balance, more good than bad. However, a staggering number of earmarks and pork spending for local projects permeate the budget and abuse taxpayer money.…
If a landlord makes a decision that is bad for its tenants’ businesses, it’s not really the fault of government – unless the bad decision was made in cooperation with…
Bryson City is constructing a turntable for the steam engine owned by the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad. It is supposed to incent recreational rail to create the same level of…
The Dillsboro town board allocated $25,000 for economic development incentives. They argue the place is a ghost town now that the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad has moved to Bryson City.…
Bryson City wants to get rid of its Trick or Treat program. It isn’t that encouraging kids to dress up as scary monsters isn’t teaching them community values. It’s, well,…
It’s small, but Bryson City Alderman Jim Gribble is challenging a bill for engineering fees. McGill Associates offered to replace 1700 water meters at a cost of $983,137. The bid…
Yesterday, we learned the sins of billboards were expunged in Watauga County, and today we learn snipe signs are now beyond redemption in Bryson City.
The Bryson City town board wishes to increase water and sewer rates. If I understand the logic of popular arguments, it is because the City of Asheville can’t run its…
The following is, by definition, ignorant: Whether is politically correct, Buncombe County’s plugging of the AIDS Quilt on its web site, or Bryson City’s approval of a nativity display downtown?…
Dillsboro is yet another community reveling in the festivities of the economic recovery that has been kicked into high gear for the last five years. The town lost tourist business…
A small area west of Bryson City may have found the clue to greening America.
People on the Cherokee res keep voting against legalizing alcohol, so referenda continue to recur about every three years. Odds are, a majority will eventually vote yes, and a ratio…