Clay County commissioners scheduled today — the Friday before Labor Day — as the date for a countywide referendum on a proposed land-transfer tax hike. John Locke Foundation researchers have found that Clay County doesn’t need the revenue associated with the tax increase. The Asheville Citizen-Times highlighted the researchers’ findings and interviewed Research Director and Local Government Analyst Michael Sanera. Speaking of western North Carolina, a Web site called Finding Dulcinea, which bills itself as the “Librarian of the Internet,” recently used information from the North Carolina History Project on the short history of the breakaway State of Franklin.
