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Lou Bissette was the hard-charging, 45-year-old mayor of Asheville in 1989, when he heard the exciting news that state lawmakers had green-lighted the construction of the Interstate-26 Connector.
Three years later, no longer in office but helping to lead a group pushing the project, he was thrilled to learn that funding had been set aside for one of its segments…