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Sunday, January, 29 2012
Posted January 28th, 2012 at 8:00 PM by Leslee Kulba
Asheville has a new Food Policy Council. In case you’re wondering what a food policy council does, Katie Souris provided the following for the Mountain Xpress: Asheville’s new Food Policy Council is leaving the mall with a brand new pair of pants, and it will be wearing them around town for a few months (come [...]
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Posted at 7:55 PM by Leslee Kulba
It’s only a wee $63 thou, so it is not a problem; even if another 100 or 1000 places take their own wee $63 thou. The Hendersonville Times-News told the story of how the modicum of porkulus greened Hendersonville’s mainstreet with retrofits to arrest climate change, created jobs, and stimulated the local economy with a [...]
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Posted at 7:43 PM by Leslee Kulba
Starbucks Coffee is really into the corporate gifting scene, as you know. In a current exploit, which you probably don’t know about because only people on welfare can afford to go to Starbucks these days, the coffee company wants you to help create jobs by making a donation to Opportunity Finance Network, an organization that [...]
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Posted January 27th, 2012 at 5:41 PM by Leslee Kulba
Sylva town board member Stacy Knotts is calling it quits to move to South Carolina. She is maybe the fifth local elective office holder in the past few months to make headlines for saying good-bye to their post for relocation purposes. Asheville City Councilman Brownie Newman said he could no longer afford to pay city [...]
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Asheville's transit system has the smallest impact on regional travel, according to a report by Dr. David Hartgen of UNCC.
Future road congestion could threaten North Carolina’s economy, but Asheville is better prepared for congestion than most other N.C. cities.
U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler, D-N.C., and several Republican members of Congress try get Senate to resist attempts to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants.
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Research
County governments all over North Carolina are saving money by privatizing services. In an effort to assist in the exchange of information about these activities, the John Locke Foundation conducted a survey of all 100 counties asking county managers to tell us about governmental activities that they currently supply privately. We also asked them if they had problems in the past with a privatized activity that had caused them to return the activity to government provision.
Montgomery County commissioners have raised the property tax by nine cents over the last three years, from 58 cents to 67 cents per $100 valuation — a 15.5 percent increase. Now the commissioners want voters to approve a quarter-cent sales-tax increase worth an estimated $250,000.
Buncombe County commissioners seek voter approval of a sales-tax hike, promising that the $7 million that would be raised would be given to AB Tech for a new building and renovations,. The funds would go into the county’s general fund, however and could be spent on any legal purpose.
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