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The Eagle Is Rising
Presumably, work will soon resume on Eagle Market Place. The effort had been a continuing boondoggle, with allegations and insinuations on top of the absurdity of using all kinds of…
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How’s That Workin’ out for Ya: Part II
I don’t like when public policy monologue starts with implicit false assumptions. There is a long article in the local daily today that begins: [Ashevile City Councilman] Gordon Smith admits…
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Cracked
You may remember the rock meeting the hard place when Mountain Housing Opportunities, an agency very competent in winning government grants to complete subsidized projects, took on the role of…
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Concrete Slab Overpowering Both Rock & Hard Place
We often hear of objects looking for a good home. In Asheville, good homes are looking for people. For example, we read, “Haywood Habitat for Humanity is seeking qualified prospective…
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What’s Going on with Eagle Market?
I’m wondering what is going on with Eagle Market Place. That is the section of Asheville’s downtown that has been in perpetual blight since urban renewal came along. After a…
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Can’t Figure Out Why Increasing Costs Is Increasing Costs
__________________________ Key: Black is reporting. Red is sarcastic commentary – for those who do not quite grasp the limitations of reality. __________________________ As if they didn’t know already, Asheville’s Affordable…
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Rules Are for The Wee People
This is the kind of stuff that annoys me. First of all, I’d like to say the people working for Mountain Housing Opportunities are all very nice. I just don’t…
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Why Will It Work, Now?
Back between 2004 and 2007, the City of Asheville received HUD funding for an organization that no longer exists to help people turned down by conventional lenders get mortgages. That…
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The Path to Prosperity Is Clear
Silly you. You supposed production had something to do with economies. Not so! Here are some examples of how Asheville is making the city prosperous: While unemployment and underemployment run…
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Seeing Is Believing
Amazingly, the media has paid attention to an item on the Consent Agenda for the monopartisan Buncombe County Commissioners. One got the sense even the commissioners paid the bimonthly printout…
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MHO Scores HTR Again
Asheville taxpayers have made themselves somewhat of an official lender for Mountain Housing Opportunities. The reasons could be that the Housing Trust Fund is not well-advertised, developers tend to be…
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Gobbling Up Personhood
This rant pertains to the portion of Asheville City Council’s budget discussions pertaining to government meddling in personal affairs. It consists of stray thoughts from reading the proposed Strategic Operating…