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Henderson County Opinion

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Conservatives win in budget vote

Henderson County commissioners invested in public safety and crime prevention, granted a modest public school funding request and made good on an overdue promise to Green River this week as they finished up their work on the 2013-14 budget — all without raising taxes.   Read Story »

North Carolina Opinion

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Repealing the right to know

The North Carolina Legislature continues its assault on the people's right to know, consumer protection and newspapers' role in broadly reaching a community audience.   Read Story »

Henderson County Opinion

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Pardee better off without politics

The Henderson County Board of Commissioners bent to the reality of both the free market and the government-controlled market when it acceded to a major change designed to eradicate politics from Pardee Hospital's governance.   Read Story »

Henderson County Opinion

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Solution desperately searches for a problem

At the inaugural meeting of Henderson County's Regulation Review Advisory Committee, board members suggested they needed to get hold of the complaint file.   Read Story »

Henderson County Opinion

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Five things to watch in 2013

Five things to watch in 2013:   Read Story »

Henderson County Opinion

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Collaboration emerges as 2013 key

Chuck Edwards, the new Henderson County Chamber of Commerce chairman, was talking in an interview with the Lightning about the chamber's 2013 goals.   Read Story »

Henderson County Opinion

Moss column: Lightning struck by women

I love women.   Read Story »

Henderson County Opinion

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: The water smells funny

A bad smell rose from the Hendersonville City Council's action last week to pull a resolution on the Asheville-Buncombe water war and it wasn't sewage.   Read Story »

Flat Rock Opinion

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Saving Playhouse is the pro-business move

It turns out the grownups in the room weren't in the room at all.   Read Story »

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