It promises to be a busy meeting tonight as Asheville City Council considers an equality resolution aimed at protecting the rights of LGBT citizens, as well as a controversial Ingles expansion, among other items. Follow live Twitter coverage here.
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Asheville City Council preview: Equality and Ingles
At its Feb. 22 meeting, the Asheville City Council faces two major issues — the passage of an equality resolution aimed at securing LGBT rights and the approval of the expansion of an Ingles on Smoky Park Highway.
How much does a job cost?
According to Jake Frankel's article, It's the Economy, Stupid [Dec. 15, 2010 Xpress), the Buncombe County Commissioners approved a "$99.74 million federal stimulus loan to Ingles Markets Inc." The loan is to help Ingles [expand] their facility in Black Mountain. The "completed projects would create at least 190 new full-time jobs, plus an unspecified number […]
The Ingles loan doesn’t add up
Math — arithmetic we called it back then — always made my head hurt, so I try to stay away from the stuff. But my eighth-grade math teacher, Mrs. Sears, always told us, “If you can’t figure something out, round off the numbers.” And that’s what I did when I read about how [Buncombe County […]
Romaine lettuce recall affects N.C., product pulled from Ingles
Buncombe County’s Health Department and national media outlets have reported a recall on Romaine lettuce, distributed by Freshway Foods of Ohio. North Carolina is one of 23 states included in the recall, announced after the potentially deadly bacteria E. coli was found in a sample.
City, along with Ingles, to host Independence Day party
Asheville’s July 4th celebration this year could have a distinctly corporate feel to it.