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LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Rail tankers not subject to zoning

Henderson County Opinion

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Edwards is the best choice for Senate seat

One of the most significant retirements in recent years is Tom Apodaca’s departure from the state Senate, where he has virtually rewritten the playbook as an attentive, powerful and effective representative of Hendersonville and Henderson County.   Read Story »

Henderson County Opinion

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Greenway IS jobs creator

We’re glad to see that the Ecusta Trail has become an issue that distinguishes candidates in two legislative races in the Henderson County area. It should.   Read Story »

Henderson County Opinion

EDITORIAL: Environmentalists won't take yes for an answer

When Duke Energy does its work efficiently, it’s not just a manager down the line or the investors above who get rewarded. The ratepayers do, too. In other words, all of us.   Read Story »

Mills River Opinion

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Housing ought to be on Mills River docket

Sometime in 2017, if things go as industrial recruiters hope, the town of Mills River will once again celebrate a plant opening that marks a major coup in new job creation.The Hendersonville Lightning reported last week that a partnership of Swiss and Canadian manufacturers may invest at least $217 million and hire 350 workers at a new automotive parts plant in Ferncliff Industrial Park over the next six years if the Henderson County Board of Commissioners and Mills River Town Council approve economic development incentives totaling $7.25 million over 14 years.   Read Story »

Henderson County Opinion

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Where have all the women gone?

With less than a week to go in the filing period for the 2016 elections, we once again confront an obvious and substantial gender gap.   Read Story »

Hendersonville Opinion

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Apodaca served his town

When the 2002 reapportionment created a Hendersonville-centric state Senate seat, few surveyors of the political landscape would have pointed to Tom Apodaca as a likely candidate.   Read Story »

Hendersonville Opinion

HHS senior: Why 1926 building matters to me

I am student of the Class of 2016 and I am also a fourth generation Bearcat.   Read Story »

Henderson County Opinion

Coren would charge Bearcats for cost overrun

Saying that he was elected as “a representative and voice for the entire county,” School Board member Colby Coren last week cautioned that decision makers should “look at look at the next hundred years, not dwell on the last hundred” years of Hendersonville High School history.   Read Story »

Edneyville Opinion

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Duke not too big to listen

The announcement Wednesday that Duke Energy had pulled the plug on a 40-mile transmission line through Henderson County as part of its Western Carolinas Modernization Plan marked a logical end to a saga that has gripped the southern mountains for 120 days.   Read Story »

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