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Planning for Others
The Mountain Xpress interviewed Todd Okolichany, Asheville’s new planning director. He comes from Fort Lauderdale, and he likely has a lot of good ideas about carrying on the Asheville Way…
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Not Cool
The subject line is intended as a compliment in the Greg Gutfeld sense of defining “cool” as the inability to say no. Henderson County commissioners told the town of Fletcher…
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Because You’re Too Small to Succeed
Continental’s facility in Fletcher is in the news for expansion, so it’s time for your nother crony capitalism quiz. What will the economic development create? Jobs. That which it destroys…
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Because You Can’t Handle Consumer Choice
Continental Automotive in Fletcher will invest blah-blah in the community and create blah-blah jobs paying blah-blah, which is blah-blah above the minimum wage. What the article in the Hendersonville Times-News…
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But for
Zentric, a green corporation, was going to create 116 jobs and invest $7 million in the community, and you have to say it that way and not try to use…
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I-26 Meeting
The Hendersonville Times-News has published a good summary of events leading to nothing; that is, improvements made to I-26 between Hendersonville and Asheville that were supposed to start three decades…
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Schizo
Your taxes must go up, so you might as well feel inclusive about what you’re getting in return. (No. I am not schizo. I am drawing from the PC lexicon.)…
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Who You Gonna Call?
I do not like to use this space to call attention to the frailties of mere mortals. However, following mismanagement of the Asheville Police Department’s evidence room, sending of the…
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All Government Is Local; All Business Is Government
Recently the Henderson County Commissioners approved giving $197,736 to an unnamed company. Today, the Fletcher Town Council approved $125,125 for the same. The approvals are necessary to entice “Project Napoleon”…
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I’m Napoleon!
The Henderson County Commissioners wish to give $197,736 to a high tech firm, and the Town of Fletcher wants to give them another $125,125. To be special, they have given…
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Throwing Weight
Maybe Mission Hospital foresaw a rash of ulcers in working professionals in south Asheville. Maybe Obamacare was to be the cause. For whatever reason, the hospital wanted to move its…
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Wanted: Press Release of Company Locating to Area without Economic Development Incentives
It was exciting. The Hendersonville Times-News announced Legacy Paddlesports will set up shop in Fletcher. Two pages of news explained the area’s amenities and business prospects. It wasn’t until the…