In the wake of this and this, the Courier Tribune is laying it on with a trowel. It appears city leaders were "caught by surprise" by Asheboro's new/dubious claim to fame as a "dying town".
This is simply amazing to me . . . given that my friends and I have been talking about it for literally years.
Buried deep in the Courier's article is a comment by Mayor Jarrell that the city needs to aggressively pursue growth by annexation. We who live on Dave's Mountain knew that was coming. Steve Schmidly and his well-heeled Mountain pals shoved alcohol down the city's throat . . . now the rest of us have to pay.
I wonder if "aggressive pursuit" is anything like the "aggressive representation" practiced by Randolph Hospital's lawyers - where lying and cheating is no big deal. The Asheboro City Council certainly did not care about that - for all of its noble talk about recruiting the "valued" talents of well-educated young professionals.
I also wonder how many expensive consultants it will take to come up with yet another bad annexation plan.
Expect a fight, Mr. Mayor. You cannot expect the residents of Dave's Mountain to be the passive scapegoats for the City of Asheboro's gross ineptitude in terms of long-range planning . . . "vision" that was far from "20/20". For years, Asheboro's leaders reveled in their status as mill town gods . . . giving little thought to anyone or anything beyond the next quarter's profit margin.
The gods turned out to be very petty, cheap, mean and small.
Word on the Mountain's pot-holed streets is that Councilman Keith Crisco is working some behind-the-scenes deals to be our next Mayor. In my opinion, that would be the worst thing that could happen to Asheboro. If ever there was a cause for those who have felt rail-roaded by this Council (be it during the annexation war or the alcohol referendum), throwing this two-faced snake off the Council - and keeping him out of the Mayor's chair - would be it.
Of course, that's just my opinion.
Speaking of potholes, if the Asheboro City Council really wanted to generate some good will from those whose pockets it has targeted to pick, it would dispatch Councilman Walker Moffitt to fix some of the massive potholes in the Dave's Mountain roads that he built to "minimum standards".
One of these days, someone is going to get seriously hurt when they hit one of these massive craters too fast in the dark. And when it happens, I sincerely hope Mr. Moffitt (and anyone else who profited from the development of the neighborhood) gets his butt sued off.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
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I thought that Asheboro was already dead and just awaiting burial.
Just its soul.
I attended a Christmas party at Pinewood last night. The well-heeled found it all hilarious. The ABC store(s) is/are doing nearly ten grand per day. Their biggest concern was the deleterious effect upon Randleman. The removal of beer, wine and liquor and their attendant cigs represents a dreadful amount of money. The Wal Mart may be forced to close.
Well, given the black hole in so many souls over there, the country-club set would find it "hilarious".
I find it hilarious that the "well-heeled" are all so "concerned" about Randleman. Didn't stop them from going after its life's blood.
The grapevine (get it?) is buzzing that the "public servants" on the ABC Board now want to be paid for their services to the community.
They want a piece of that ten grand per day.
The $chmidly$ knew what they were doing.
I forgot diapers.
My suckling child was tasty. I really miss the Mexican kids.
I stood in the parking lot talking to my fave stock broker and his girlfriend afterward. I don't think Asheboro was ever mentioned. It was mostly classical history and traveling.
Most people don't realize that Asheboro's wealthy consider Greensboro backward and inelegant. To them, Asheboro is no more than a quiet place to lay the head between vacations.
"To them, Asheboro is no more than a quiet place to lay the head between vacations."
Man, you nailed that one.
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