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The same people that wanted to bring Asheville partisan municipal elections are interested in introducing Instant Runoff Voting (IRV). To make a point, Mayor Terry Bellamy read the page or so of instructions out loud through three requests from Councilwoman Robin Cape to hush for already making her point. Exit…
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It has been said that if government declared a war on pregnancy, men would start having babies. Swain County continues to fight its high teen pregnancy rate with programming. Last year, thirty-eight Swain teens gave birth. This was not the first pregnancy for eleven of these girls. To eliminate…
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Government is looking for agencies to accept grants for programs to increase parent-child interaction. Anyone wanna form a 501(c)(3) dedicated toward eliminating the casual awarding of welfare checks for the offspring of stud muffins who don’t want the responsibility of fatherhood?…
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One of my favorite books is The Boy Who Invented Television, a biography of Philo T. Farnsworth written by Paul Schatzkin. At about the sixth-grade level, Schatzkin tells the story of just about everything that can stand in the way of an inventor and the fruits of his labors. One…
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A quick fix to all the concerns about erroneous electronic voting machines that transcend the traditional dictum of GIGO would be to program them to score a vote for a Democrat every time somebody votes for a Republican. Grant Millin, interviewed in this article, has significant ties to the…
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The City of Asheville, more properly, the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, is exploring a new way to synergize our vibrancy. Many opinion leaders from Asheville and Buncombe County learned about it on their InterCity visit to Pittsburgh. InterCity visits are billed as excursions for learning more about cities that…
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Tonight is Homeless Memorial Day. We are asked to increase our carbon footprint by burning a light in the window, and show our solidarity for the Democrat presidential platform with a poster that states, “Health care is a human right.†The program is sponsored by the Homeless Initiative, which is…
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We continue to transfer more power to government, proving to ourselves that we lack the heart and brains to be trusted to ourselves. On the radio today, a news item told how the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Department (a.k.a., government, policing power, etc.) was making daily check-in calls to the elderly.
