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New Life through Marriage
These days, when marriage is so uncool – unless it is a creative way of helping yourself to somebody else’s employee benefits package – there appears to still be one…
David King
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Girl Fight
There is a he-said-she-said over which our news outlets are telling us we must get bent out of shape. The only non-involved witness is gentle Buncombe County Commissioner David King.…
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County Wants Affordable Housing, Tourists, but Not Together
Last night, the Buncombe County Commissioners approved upzoning one parcel from R-3 (Residential) to Commercial, but denied a request to upzone another from R-1 to R-3. Parcel 1 was owned…
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Vignette IV
The press got a bad rap for this, that, and the other thing. I hate it when government tries to tell newspapers what to say. Commissioner David King called attention…
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Woefully Austere
Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy’s trip to Paris reportedly only cost a measly $3340, and was funded through the local Economic Development Coalition. Once again, we mustn’t ask how many bus…
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Getty Up
It is Strive Not to Drive week in Asheville. It feels kind of weird being the only person tooling around in a car. Even the highways look something like Tokyo…
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Santa’s Back
The Buncombe County Commissioners awarded Linamar more economic development incentives. The first $10 million they gave was not enough, nor was the funding from the City of Asheville and the…
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Election Day
The morning started very cold. A couple poll workers’ fingers were too cold to drive by the second or third hour of standing in the cold rain. There was snow…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Trains will not solve the traffic congestion problem
Or so says TTA Executive Director David King and Wake County Manager David Cooke. This letter to the editor quotes their statements during a transit debate between them and Dr.…
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An unintentionally useful column
If you’ve seen the cover of the new Newsweek, you’ve already braced yourself for a focus on environmental issues. (The cover headline “Who’s The Greenest Of Them All?” refers to…