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Asheville’s hotel construction ban
At last night’s meeting, the Asheville City Council unanimously voted to ban new hotel construction for up to a year. According to the Citizen-Times, the decision “follows years of concerns…
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Nice Article
John Boyle has a fascinating commentary entitled, “68,000 percent increase in hospital costs.” It is interesting down to the very last word.
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Stooping to Stirring the Pot
This could be an entangling alliance. I’m still struggling with the feeling that I’m missing something. At the last meeting of Asheville City Council, several people came to participate in…
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Education My Eye
The Asheville Citizen-Times’ Answer Man, John Boyle, asks why the North Carolina Education Lottery sponsors a NASCAR truck. I would have hazarded it had something to do with educating the…
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‘Possum Drop Defenders: Happy Warriors Against The Left
PETA is at it again. The Leftist animal rights group is trying to prevent Brasstown, North Carolina from using an opossum in its New Year’s Eve ‘Possum Drop. But instead…
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Followup Promised on John Boyle’s Presentation
The Asheville Daily Planet has published its coverage of actuary John Boyle’s commentary on the US government’s unfunded liabilities. Superior in every way to the first coverage of the event,…
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More Slow Cooperation with the Media
The Asheville Citizen-Times has asked to see the contract and terms of termination for outgoing president Hank Dunn, and it has printed an article exposing the college’s failure to cooperate…
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Ha Ha Funny
Answer man John Boyle makes fun of Asheville’s “economic development strategy of having one brewery for each resident.”
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Civics 101
Here’s one overview of John Boyle’s lecture on the financial state of the union, presented at Mars Hill University last week. John North will be writing a better story for…
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Truth May Hurt, but It Sets You Free
Rick Bagley has wanted me to spread the word about a couple web pages: This one and that one. If you read the articles, you will learn that a great…
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Day off Work
It will be my privilege to be in Atlanta tomorrow, attending another presentation on unfunded liabilities. The guest speaker will be actuary John Boyle, and a preliminary draft of the…
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Going Green & Going Greek
The Buncombe County Commissioners approved a greenways plan with a price tag of $39.3 million and no strategy for paying the bill. SWEET! As justification, the commissioners noted New Belgium…