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First Price, Second Price
A new fire and rescue training center for Haywood Community College has a 20-percent overrun. But that’s the way government does business: Sell ideas on the cheap and demand more…
Haywood Community College
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Why Typos Are Good
Haywood County Community College, HCCCCCCCCCCC for short, has to return $126,000 to the state. The overage comes from enrollment-based funding awarded according to reports stating a forestry class had 90…
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Galaxies Multiplying before My Eyes
Reporteth the Mountaineer: Haywood Community College is responsible for injecting at least $92.8 million into Haywood County during the 2012-13 fiscal year, through the combined impact of operations, construction and…
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Vision Me a Mission Statement
Haywood Community College is entering phase two of a process it started last spring when trustees decided it was time to clean up the college’s mission statement and come up…
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Now That the Recession Is Over
Haywood Community College has asked for more than $1.4 million from the county for building and renovations projects on campus in the coming fiscal year. . . . Before the…
Energy
Beware “creative financing” when taxpayers are on the hook
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that…
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Come up with a Good One
The Mountaineer would like you to submit questions for the 11th District Congressional debate to be held at Haywood Community College from 7 to 9 p.m., April 4. Ten of…
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Why, Those Imperfect Little Bidders
Back when I taught school, I was an evil taskmaster. Often, I wouldn’t award partial credit, explaining to my students that if they grow up to be engineers and design…
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Seminar: Tax Implications for Starting a Business
The Small Business Center at Haywood Community College will offer a free seminar on “Tax Implications for Starting a Business,” on Tuesday, November 15, from 6-8 p.m. in the Student…
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Other items of interest
The Mount Airy News mentioned a Carolina Journal article from contributor Sam Hieb this week while discussing the cash-strapped Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation. Meanwhile, an Asheville Citizen-Times letter writer…
Education
New Carolina Journal Online features
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online about a controversial solar energy project on the campus of Haywood Community College. John Hood’s Daily Journal analyzes recent verbal gaffes from Democratic…
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Twisted New Urbanists
People are invited to share their visions for Waynesville with planners September 20, between 10:00 and 2:00, at the Waynesville campus of Haywood Community College. I won’t be there. Like…