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Asheville voters: Don’t skip the ballot referendum!
Partisan or nonpartisan city elections? If you live in Asheville, today’s your chance to decide.
Asheville City Council
The Asheville City Council put an end to the battle over balconies on a downtown renovation project, ordering staff to draw up a stricter process for approving future sales of the city’s air rights. But local activist Elaine Lite, a City Council candidate who brought the issue into the spotlight by bidding for air rights […]
What would partisan elections mean?
Now that Let Asheville Vote has reportedly submitted more than 6,000 petition signatures, the city may be holding a referendum on partisan elections sometime between Sept. 16 and Nov. 16. If the Buncombe County Board of Elections declares at least 5,000 of those signatures valid, it will put City Council’s June decision to switch to […]
The direction of elections: Brownie Newman’s modest proposal
Asheville City Council member Brownie Newman says that, whichever way the referendum petition count falls, the public outcry over partisan elections has persuaded him that “there is enough public concern and interest that we should talk about it more.”
Few turn out for Let Asheville Vote event—
Despite heavy advance publicity and editorial endorsement by the Asheville Citizen-Times, few attended the Let Asheville Vote rally on Monday evening.
Blue vs. Red: Asheville goes partisan
Asheville is now a party town — politically, that is.
