At Buncombe commissioners meeting, a Twitter-fest

Posted on by Jason Sandford

Mountain Xpress will be covering the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners’ meeting tonight — pre-meeting starting at 4 p.m. and business meeting at 4:30 p.m. at the County Courthouse — and we’re inviting all you citizen journalists to join us.

Xpress will be Twittering updates from the meeting. If you’re Twittering about the I-26 Connector discussion in Asheville, insert the following code so we can follow the community discussion: #i26connect.

Use this Twitter search to find out what people are saying about the road project.

Click here to read a meeting preview. Click here for our primer. And click here to see state Department of Transportation computer simulations of what the different roads would look like.

And speaking of Twitter, join the discussion about who’s on Twitter in the Xpress Forums.

— Jason Sandford, multimedia editor

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3 thoughts on “At Buncombe commissioners meeting, a Twitter-fest”

  1. Foto-Jennic

    Couldn’t twitter it but I did get some citizen photos. Unfortunately I couldn’t stay long, but you could have filled the chamber twice over with activated citizens.

  3. Jeff Fobes

    And just in, via twitter, at 7:02 p.m.:
    Commissioners voted for Alt 3, the Chamber endorsed alternative.

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