The citizens of Asheville are being asked via referendum whether or not the city should sell its water system. Meanwhile, the experts have to wait until after the election to see a draft of a study commissioned to inform the answer. A parallel study also managed to miss its deadline for pre-election public review.
Read full article » No Comments »In case you haven’t read this yet, here’s a link to “Storm Economics in One Lesson.” Hopefully, it will resonate with what you already know. It tells of administrative inefficiency, faux leadership, price gouging, “organizing,” favorite sons, licensure enforcement, postponing help to qualify for more state and federal dollars, the broken windows fallacy, and much, much more.
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