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The Patience of Duke
Ask me if I mind getting up an hour earlier so I can drive to work in twenty minutes instead of forty. The good news is, we have forestalled widening…
Interstate 26
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Random Opinionating on New Asheville City Council Meeting
The first business meeting of the new, radical Asheville City Council wasn’t that bad. I had taken WWNC talk show host Pete Kaliner’s advice and moved to the county when…
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Biasing the Wrong Way?
This morning, as I rode the acceleration ramp into the local Spaghetti Junction, I noticed one of those lighted signs. It invited people to comment on proposed plans to upgrade…
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Duke Stoppers: Part II
Activists in Edneyville, Henderson County, are challenging Duke Energy’s claim that installing 45 miles of underground wires is neither technologically nor financially advisable. The idea is not as wack as…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
What Senate leaders plan to do about NC’s Transportation needs
A press conference was held today by the NC Senate about what they planned to do regarding North Carolina’s transportation funding needs. Here is a press release summarizing the press…
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Perhaps Pending Possibility Could-Potentially Be Conceivably Prospective
Saith WLOS: Survey crews are out on Interstate 26 for [perhaps] a [possibly] potential project that might [could potentially] include widening the highway, said Rick Tipton, the division construction engineer…
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New Word Adds Life to Old Story
The big news today is that somebody is calling the ongoing saga of whether or not improvements should be made to I-26 in Asheville a “boondoggle.” Nothing’s new; somebody just…
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Tote That Barge, Lift That Bale
In recent meetings of Asheville City Council and the Buncombe County Commissioners, businessmen said they were tired of the traffic maelstrom just west of the city. It’s been going on…
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I Hereby Declare I’m Indecisive
Last night, the Buncombe County Commissioners unanimously approved a resolution that amounted to, “A unless B.” Since it is a joint resolution, it declared that the county and the City…
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Remember to Turn off the Engine in Stop & Go Interstate Traffic
Since at least 1989, when I moved down here, I-26, by what is now the Captain Jeff Bowen Bridge, has been the site of at least one rush hour accident…
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Unmeaningful Employment
Twice, with one member absent, the Henderson County Commissioners have tied their vote on a travel survey. Two commissioners find the concept kind of weird. The survey would offer $10…
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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…