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Creepy Mission’s Tether Broke
Residents of Cashiers and Highlands will likely get slapped with a fire tax. Why? Because government is so into creating positive energy these days, it has no funds left for…
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If Even I Can See This . . .
Extragovernmental activities have crowded out firefighting in Jackson County. Fill the Boot fundraisers and annual begging letters aren’t bridging the gap between allotted dollars and actual costs for a couple…
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Government Needs You to Party
The booming metropolis of Sylva needs to plan for future growth, and so it is considering expanding its ETJ. Supposedly, the planning extravaganza that taxes without representation was spurred by…
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There Ought to Be a Directive
Jackson County could be headed for serious times. We just read how they could not let each fire district subsist on its own taxes because some areas of town were…
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How Nice of the 1%
Jackson County voted against making its fire departments operate on their own tax revenues. The main reason is that poor communities could not support their fire departments, which are currently…
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State Lies, Says Cashiers Is Full of —-
Things may have changed, but in the not too distant past, the Hendersonville water treatment plant had to put chlorine and flocking chemicals in its water even though it was…
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Meanwhile . . .
The Jackson County Commissioners are considering building a new $8 million recreation center in Cashiers. Cashiers is a wealthy community, and it is not expected the county will have to…
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Jackson County: A County wide Greenway?
JLF Local Government Analyst, Michael Sanera has just offered his ideas on the proposed Greenway in Jackson County. The plan is to create a Greenway that runs from Cashiers to…
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Is All Growth Bad?
I just got up here to the WNC Hills for Thanksgiving and the anti-growth movement is ever present in the resort towns of the mountains, like Cashiers: “Our duty is…
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Talking the Talk
Chad Adams spoke to members of the Capital City Kiwanis Club on Monday about performance management – a strategy being successfully employed by some local governments in their efforts to…