The N.C. Supreme Court has ruled, 6-1, to reverse a trial court and side with the General Assembly in its legal battle with Boone over changes to the town’s power…
This is one of those issues former Representative Tim Moffitt preferred to silence with the heavy hand of state government. It’s called exhausting the court system, and in this instance…
The town of Boone has won a procedural battle at the N.C. Supreme Court in its fight with the state over a 2014 law ending the town’s power to exercise…
I surely hate ETJ’s as un-American to the core because they impose rules upon people who cannot vote the rule-makers out of office. Asheville lost its ETJ, as I recall,…
Boone Town Council held a closed email meeting sometime yesterday. The purpose was to discuss legal matters pertaining to the town’s challenge to the state’s outlawing of extraterritorial jurisdictions. Since…
The courts have granted the Town of Boone a preliminary injunction allowing it to keep its ETJ until litigation may be finalized. A motion to dismiss from the defendants, the…
With overwhelming citizen support, the Watauga County Board of commissioners passed a moratorium on building any new: asphalt plants, electricity generating facilities, propane or gasoline bulk storage facilities, chip mills,…
The Town of Boone is suing the state for eliminating its ETJ. Now, Watauga County has decided to join the lawsuit to fight on behalf of the people, or perhaps…
The Sylva town fathers thought it would be really neat to extend their powers into lands where people cannot vote for them. The practice is known as creating an ETJ,…
Residents of Boone’s now defunct ETJ have formed the WCLC, and that is now a chapter of the BREDL. Members of the Watauga Citizens for Local Control are concerned that…
While other municipalities in the state are being legislated out of their ETJ’s, the Town of Sylva is contemplating expanding its. I mean, we wouldn’t want a discontinuity in aesthetic…
Captives have effectively been liberated with the imminent toppling of Boone’s ETJ. Now, county government is trying to get input on what kind of regime should move in. But you’re…