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Don't worry about me. Some information is above your pay grade

Why worry? It would be no great loss to society!! Let the alcohol do it's job....

Has a cat got a climbing gear?

Fins, are you drinking?

Try won't.

I knew you couldn't answer any of my questions.

You were wrong about pollution, you were wrong about most of what boone is actually doing and why, and wait and see if you don't know about the vote I'm talking about.

Like most government managers, you know how to put a lot of words together, but not really know the details.

Fins, what info about their proposed intake and the Town is wrong? The location? The purpose? The practical effect downstream? What did I post that was incorrect about the project or the Town? As far as being one vote from being stopped, almost all projects are one vote from being stopped - are you referring to a particular person on the Boone board or a future vote by the Town Board, or a vote by some other body? It's not clear.

I wasn't talking about the IOG. Although, someone should tell the mouth breathers in Boone and Watauga (of course Ashe too) that it exists. But that's another topic.

I was referring to the town of Boone and the intake. Most of your info is wrong. It's one vote away from being killed any way

A two year study was done and levels in the sludge and treated water contained high amounts of 21 drugs in the same system as boones.

That's strange. I guess you have to got to UNC Institution of Government and look for their public records opinion by Freyda Bluestien. Since when did this site start corrupting links?

****, I hand typed it and the site cut it again.

For some reason, this site will not allow me to paste the link to the IOG - how odd.

http://www.sos.unc.edu/stie...erview.pdf

Hmm, let's try that link again:

http://www.sog.unc.edu/site...erview.pdf

Fins, if something has changed that I don't know about I would like to know. Typically I go by what Freyda Bluestien at the IOG says but I admit that her last article on the subject is two years old: http://www.sog.unc.edu/site...erview.pdf

Fins - please update me.

Much of your information is incorrect or it of date

Eventually the group will find a judge that will threaten the Town with contempt, if Boone decides to go to the mat, but I doubt that happens. The town will relent, but the redactions and the size of the file may ebb and flow like ocean tide.

I know I sound cynical and I am, but government in the US is not set up to be a democracy, it's a republic at best, and often locally just a corporate entity where the people think they own the entity, but in realty they are a shareholder at best unless they are on the board.

Schools seem to reinforce the notion of an idealized democracy without ever fully explaining the reality.

Whether you like it or not, and whether it's ethical or not, or legal or not, the Town of Boone is looking out for what it thinks are it's best interests. Boone doesn't shrink from stepping on others once they conclude they need to do it.

The town will quote the law that allows them to decide what is a reasonable place and manner for the review of the records (a rule that sets no time limit on what is reasonable) then the town will claim that anything not in the document is protected first by the Economic Development exemption and then Attorney Client privilege.

From the Town's perspective, the Greene woman and the group are irritants and threaten what the Board considers the existential need of the Town. Therefore, the Town will make it as difficult as possible. Unfortunately it's the American Way and a distinct feature of a corporation. Once something is a corporate entity it answers to it's board.