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  • 1 week ago | brevardnewsbeat.substack.com | Dan DeWitt

    BREVARD — Of the many false rumors and unwarranted accusations Transylvania County Commissioner Chase McKelvey said he has heard during the current budget season, this was the most “shocking”: One caller, he said at the Commission’s budget workshop on Tuesday, told him that “if we go to a one-service fire district, that’s like fire department socialism and that’s a liberal mentality.” The backlash from other commissioners was so fierce that McKelvey had to quickly remind them that the charge...

  • 3 weeks ago | brevardnewsbeat.substack.com | Dan DeWitt

    BREVARD — Laura Rain Tree and Ron Young climbed a steep, wooded hillside bordering the site of a proposed housing development to reach a ravine with even steeper walls. “Look how it falls off over there,” said Young, pointing to an especially precipitous slope.

  • 1 month ago | brevardnewsbeat.substack.com | Dan DeWitt

    BREVARD — The always-moving Gettysburg Address stirred up a new emotion when I listened to County Commissioner Larry Chapman read it at the Memorial Day ceremony in downtown Brevard. A slow-burning resentment, a feeling that this guy’s got a lot of nerve. The Address, as you no doubt know, is a distillation of the nation’s highest ideals written by a leader who embodied them.

  • 1 month ago | brevardnewsbeat.substack.com | Dan DeWitt

    BREVARD — Ella Jones’ tiny, 77-year-old house on North Lane has seen a lot of hard use and not enough maintenance in the last few years, she said. “It’s just gone down,” she said of the condition of the 830-square-foot home that she previously rented and that is now occupied free of charge by her son and his family. “I couldn’t make house payments on it, pay taxes on it and keep it up,” she said.

  • 1 month ago | clintonherald.com | Dan DeWitt

    Protect energy tax creditsThe Inflation Reduction Act was a Democratic boondoggle passed without any Republican votes in 2022. But we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. The energy tax credits have generated billions of dollars of investments in Iowa, these are investments that Iowa’s businesses rely on to make financial decisions and that directly benefit Iowans. kAmpD 7@C C6?6H23=6 7F6= AC@5F4E:@?[ x@H2 :D E96 E@A 7F6= 6E92?@=\AC@5F4:?8 DE2E6 :? E96 ?2E:@? 2?5 92D D=:89E=J >@C6 E92?

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