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So reports the Charlotte Observer. Seems that city wants more details — think projected construction costs excluding things like consultant’s fees — and Studio Charlotte Development so far has been…
So the Rhino’s Paul Clark puts it as the Guilford County Board of Education ponders its do-over options following the GCS tablet debacle: The school board has several choices. It…
Make that a really big Boeing plant at the airport — that’s what the city and state are considering bidding on, says the UPoR. And yes, a cubic megazillion dollars…
A long time ago, members of a former Asheville City Council decided to generate revenue by selling off municipal real estate. One parcel up for RFP/RFQ-ing was the relatively new…
The Rhino’s Paul Clark digs into e-mails between Guilford County Schools officials and Amplify: Emails between Guilford County Schools and Amplify Inc., the supplier of 15,000 now-scrapped middle school tablet…
Big Sunday N&R front-pager on Guilford County Schools’ tablet debacle: Guilford County Schools wanted to connect its students to the latest technology. Instead, it got product delays. Poor quality cases.…
One big item on Asheville City Council’s agenda last night was modification of the city’s agricultural policies. Concerns about sprawl don’t apply if one compartmentalizes one’s thinking. The other big…
The popular media narrative is that sequestration has cut into the bone of federal agencies, leaving employees and the beneficiaries of public programs up the creek. Contrast that narrative with…
More on Guilford County’s crooked county line politics later—John Hammer weighs in on that, too — but scroll down Scott Yost’s Rhino article and read about commissioners head-to-head with PART…
The City of Asheville embarked on a program years ago to sell surplus city property to the private sector. An RFP/RFQ process was developed so organizations that promised to provide…
Asheville City Council will consider recommendations from the Asheville-Buncombe Food Policy Council Tuesday. In addition to “making food systems environmentally sustainable and socially just,” and growing “medicinal landscaping in all…
The public believes it was due to mismanagement of funds. Those on the inside believe it was because of their astute watchdog roles in speaking out against government. Government claims…