Cooper's corporate welfare tally for 2020 is jaw-dropping: $519.3 million pledged to just 48 corporations. Supposedly that would lead to 11,600 new jobs, which is only about one-nineteenth the number…
Somebody thinks a cat museum could be the answer to Dillsboro’s economic woes. This person is a cat lover, so let’s hope they’re not talking taxidermy. Anyhoo, Governor Pat would…
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.…
Dillsboro is fast becoming a ghost town, and so local leaders did what everybody has been doing since the sewers of the seeds of the recession went all-out. They sat…
Dillsboro business owners are collecting signatures for a petition to bring the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad back to their community. They hope it will spearhead economic development, but then everything…
The Jackson County Commissioners have been working very hard to come up with a corporate welfare package to entice the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad to build a turntable in Dillsoro.…
Taxpayer monies are not a treasure chest to dip into to give money to private business based on hope for economic improvement rather than a sound fiscal analysis,” said George…
[The people of Jackson County] would loan the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad $700,000, repayable only if certain stipulations aren’t met, under an agreement being hammered out to bring steam-engine service…
House Speaker Thom Tillis visited Dillsboro to meet with town leaders and businessmen about “economic opportunities.” Many present expressed a desire to receive state funding for a turntable for a…
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…
Leadership of Bryson City, Dillsboro, and Swain and Jackson counties is still under the impression that hauling a steam engine to the area from Maine, for the Great Smoky Mountains…
The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad might return to Dillsboro. A draft agreement exposed by the Sylva Herald proposes the following terms: Jackson County and the TTA would pay one-half of…