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网页Asheville Watchdog is a free, local, not-for-profit, nonpartisan news organization. It was founded in 2020 as a public service by veteran professional journalists and media executives living in and around Asheville, North Carolina. Most members of the staff are volunteers. Our operations are supported entirely by contributions from the community. We believe that …
$650M Pratt & Whitney plant opens in South Asheville
网页2022年11月16日 — With attendance from Gov. Roy Cooper, numerous company officials and a slew of local politicians and business leaders, the mammoth 1.2 million-square-foot Pratt & Whitney plant held an opening ceremony Nov. 16 in South Asheville. The $650 million plant, billed as “transformative” for the region, eventually will employ 800 people with an ...
Buncombe Court Clerk to Retire • Asheville Watchdog
网页by SALLY KESTIN January 13, 2023. Steven D. Cogburn, Buncombe County’s longtime Clerk of Superior Court, is retiring, just two months after being elected to another 4-year term. Steven D. Cogburn. “I have decided to retire. My arthritis is a significant reason,” Cogburn said in an email. “I am comfortable with the team at the office.
Citing 'system failures,' Messino to stop providing acute leukemia ...
网页2023年9月21日 — Messino Cancer Centers will no longer provide chemotherapy for dozens of acute hematology cancer patients at Mission Hospital because of concerns over “ongoing system failures,” which it says were going to ultimately harm patients. Asheville Watchdog obtained a Sept. 20 letter to Messino doctors and Mission leadership and staff in which …
Opinion: Is it time to get rid of the Certificate of Need program?
网页2024年4月22日 — State Sen. Julie Mayfield, D-Buncombe, spoke about the CON issue at the Asheville Watchdog panel discussion we held in late January, and she wasn’t particularly optimistic about further changes than those that came with the Medicaid expansion. Mayfield’s outlook had not changed when I talked to her last week. “There certainly is an …
John Boyle Joins Asheville Watchdog News Team
网页by PETER LEWIS November 1, 2022. John Boyle, the popular veteran reporter and “Answer Man” columnist for the Asheville Citizen Times, announced Tuesday that he is leaving the newspaper to join Asheville Watchdog’s nonprofit local news team. Boyle, a 27-year veteran of covering local news in Asheville and surrounding communities, will ...
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Year in review: The story behind the Watchdog’s 12-part Down …
网页2023年12月27日 — On Feb. 27, we published the first installment of what would become The Watchdog’s most ambitious project to date, a 12-part series called Down Town. The story began: “Fed-up merchants describe the city’s downtown district as nearly lawless. People sleep and do drugs in doorways, barge into businesses yelling, brazenly shoplift, and ...