U.S. government certification of energy efficiency
There is concern, probably from the proverbial neighborhood, that Western Carolina University should be abiding by Jackson County zoning laws. The argument goes, “The City of Asheville oversees UNC-Asheville through…
View in your browser. Sales tax is something citizens are faced with every day, and the list of items that are exempt from the tax has changed. The sales tax…
North Carolina along with 16 other states will have a sales tax holiday this year. The holidays will cover a wide range of items and some more popular than others. …
View in your browser. The sales tax holiday has been around for a while, starting in 1980 when Ohio and Michigan offered a tax holiday for automobile purchases. Until 1997…
View in your browser. If you have been keeping up with the recent news coming out of the General Assembly, you know tax reform is the hot topic. Tax reform…
Got a letter from Duke Energy the other day on how my energy usage compared to others in similar houses. The idea is to create a sort of peer pressure…
A couple days ago, I posted a comment about a new wave of funding for the Eagle Market Street project. At the time, I didn’t realize the developers intended to…
Since economics is the science of never looking at enough variables, I thought I would try to figure out why business at Subway sandwich shoppes is running counter to downward…
This tax-free weekend, Hendersonville Water and Sewer is reminding people about its rebates available for the purchase of Energy Star and/or WaterSense plumbing products. “We want to be proactive in…
Washington wants to trash the traditional light bulb. Deroy Murdock explores the silliness of it all in his latest column. What the Wizard of Menlo Park, N.J., required 10,000 experiments…
Note who’s using the phrase ‘carbon footprinting scheme’: Two years on, handicapped by uncertainties about how to calculate those ratings — or whether it’s even possible — carbon-footprinting schemes struggle…
The Canary Coalition’s Avram Friedman was scheduled to explain the Efficient and Affordable Energy Rates Bill (H135/S367) to a group at the Jackson County Justice Center in Sylva. The bill,…