Tonight's forum is titled, "Losing Control of Our Water," and is one of several forums being held in response to the creation of a Statehouse committee that is studying three options:
1. Letting the City of Asheville retain control of the water system
2. Creating an independent regional water authority
3. Turning the system over to the Metropolitan Sewerage District
Panelists for the evening include committee chair Rep. Tim Moffitt and committee member Chuck McGrady; Rep. Patsy Keever; Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Chair David Gantt; Asheville Council members Jan Davis and Marc Hunt; local public-interest activist Barry Summers; Warren Wilson College economics professor Susan Kask; Asheville Downtown Association director Joe Minicozzi; and Clear Water for North Carolina Assistant Director Katie Hicks.
Live video stream of the event:
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Rep. Moffitt, please take the water system away from greedy local government.
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By timothypeck
02/21/2012
.........and give it to a corporation with no accountability to the public whatsoever.
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By bill smith
02/22/2012
Those unfamiliar with objectivism, an incurable form of political hydrophobia, may need a glossary right about now. Please allow me:
Due diligence and care, execution of financial stewardship, honest administration of the public fisc, when carried out by one's political opponents: greed.
Theft, slander, divide-and-rule politics, graft, corruption, when carried out by political interests one obsequiously seeks to curry favor with: justice.
By sharpleycladd
02/22/2012