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May 26

Tourism leaders are not manning the barricades before next Wednesday’s meeting.

Tourism leaders are not manning the barricades before next Wednesday’s meeting. The tourism development folks have responded to my article about them. Their only quibble was with the picture of their members from two years ago in a slide by the organizers at Buncombe Decides, who is the one pushing…

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May 24

Why people of faith need to show up at public hearings

The following is theologian Willie James Jennings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_James_Jennings. on why people of faith should show up at zoning meetings. It was delivered at Fuller Seminary, an evangelical seminary, when the overall topic was how do we get diverse people to come to church. Jennings said, people of faith need to…

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May 24

My statement at the Buncombe County Tourism Development Board on why they need to fund affordable…

My statement at the Buncombe County Tourism Development Board on why they need to fund affordable housing for service workers This is action I am taking next week to get involved with the story I wrote https://kevindoylejones.medium.com/making-ashevilles-tourism-millions-work-for-the-people-who-are-doing-the-work-6d0e7100ea94 last week Good morning ladies and gentlemen of the Tourism Development Authority. My…

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May 17

Making Asheville’s tourism millions work for the people who are doing the work

Ben Williamson, like a lot of people in Asheville, was not happy with how tourists and the tourism industry had taken over the city, thanks in large part to a tax on hotel occupancy which results in tens of millions of dollars being spent annually on advertising to get people…

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Making Asheville’s tourism millions work for the people who are doing the work
Making Asheville’s tourism millions work for the people who are doing the work

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Apr 20

Impact dao meets neighborhood investment trusts?

I’m meeting today with two top researchers, thought leaders in the impact dao space. I want to know if you can use impactdaos as the backbone of a network connecting several different community commercial real estate projects that create community ownership in BIPOC neighborhoods. The four funds are already sharing and pooling a new funding vehicle that gets them the catalytic, patient, risk taking, flexible, capital their projects are missing.

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Nov 22, 2020

Pandemic causing a Darwinian shift in adaptability.

Pandemic causing a Darwinian shift in adaptability. The new Messenger RNA vaccines are a major step forward in responding to viruses; they use the body’s own machinery, the RNA that carries messages, to teach a cell to make a protein that’s like the virus and start the body’s immune response. It’s much faster and with the prospect of more pandemics pretty clear means we can react faster, collectively than we could before.

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Nov 21, 2020

American Christian colonizer’s idea of providence led to genocide

Creating a new, transformed economy means changing the way American Christians have seen the land and their own identity, and the primacy of private property. The best thing I saw this week was Willie James Jennings keynote at our Neighborhood Economics conference. White colonizers crimes were committed by their tragically…

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BlackLivesMatter

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Nov 21, 2020

Vertical farms solve a problem but their problems have not been solved.

Vertical farms solve a problem but their problems have not been solved. Vertical farms still have unsolved problems. There is not enough land to grow fruits and vegetables at scale; the Salinas Valley is full and hugely per acre. Vertical farms could solve that, potentially. Below is a starry eyed…

Regenerative Agriculture

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Regenerative Agriculture

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Jan 12, 2020

The trouble I was up to this morning

The trouble I was up to this morning It started with this post The meeting Monday at Moments cafe in Swannanoa on replacing the Black Mountain News will present the plans of Fred McCormick, for five years the news reporter for the paper, who took on feature writing when they…

Journalism

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Journalism

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Jan 12, 2020

Freedom of the press, $2

Freedom of the press, $2 The meeting Monday at Moments cafe in Swannanoa on replacing the Black Mountain News will present the plans of Fred McCormick, for five years the news reporter for the paper, who took on feature writing when they let that staffer go, and then managing editor…

Journalism

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Journalism

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