Water Plant Expansion Gets Green Light
The Weaverville Town Council voted to move forward with the water treatment plant expansion, but the decision split the council.
Local Spiritual Group Teaches of Divine Love and Spiritual Freedom
Learn how Soul achieves freedom from the limitations of mind, emotions, karma, and reincarnation. Divine Guidance—As Close As Your Heartbeat, an ECK Light and Sound Service, will be presented on Sunday, March 12th, at 11:00 a.m. at the Country Inn and Suites, 22 Westgate Parkway.
Citizens Demanding Cleanup
Asheville City Council is holding public hearings on the budget early and often this year. The first session was sparsely attended, but council heard an earful of complaints about trash, vagrancy, and unsanitary conditions.
Bingham Academy: First School In The South To Have a Gym, Swimming Pool
This week, continuing the historical sign series, the Tribune is featuring the sign along Riverside Drive in Woodfin, near the Department of Transportation facility.
Affordable Housing on Prime Real Estate
The Development Finance Initiative of the School of Government is moving forward with selecting which parcels owned by Buncombe County in downtown Asheville will be converted into affordable housing developments. Also, the commissioners are leaning toward imposing a one-year moratorium on crypto farms.
Town Tackles Stormwater, Query Police Patrols On Future I26
At Woodfin's February monthly meeting, the council took on their police department's patrolling of US 19/Future I-26 and implemented a new stormwater ordinance, among other items.
Compounding the Housing Crisis
For years, conservative think tanks have been compiling reports demonstrating what should be obvious: zoning and land-use regulations pose costs of compliance that drive up the price of housing, significantly contributing to shortages in affordable housing. The reviewed article, by Vanessa Brown Calder, is an oldie but a goodie.
Asheville Water Crisis: Lack of Leadership Where it’s Needed
It’s said that Nero fiddled while Rome burned. The question is, what did the leadership of Asheville do while nearly 40,000 went without water over the holidays? Of course, the notion that Nero fiddled is just that, a notion, as the fiddle was not invented until the 11th century. If Nero played any instrument, it […]
Is This How We Build a Free Society?
On the agenda for the Buncombe County Commissioners' September 20 meeting were a few items that unabashedly pushed forward those trends that give government its reputation as a power that bites the hand that feeds it, using tax dollars on campaigns to sell programs that foster dependencies, doing for others what they can do for themselves, and also draining its own tax base.