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Average payments for the policies will more than double, says an independent research group, and costs will be higher in WNC. #Buncombe #Asheville #ACA #Premiums #HealthInsurance #Health #AVLWatchdog #NC
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November 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
czarbucks.bsky.social
The crippling of the #ACA will ultimately affect every American.

Excellent piece from #AVLWatchdog on what it means in the #Asheville area, where HCA/Mission and the lack of competition in our hospital systems, we are also 15% over areas in the state like Raleigh.

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“There’s no way”: Huge ACA premium hikes force Buncombe policyholders to make hard choices, including dropping coverage • Asheville Watchdog
Virginia Gilbert was shocked and angry after she learned last week that premiums for her Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance policy will more than double next year, jumping from $930 to $2,042. She wa...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
czarbucks.bsky.social
#MissionHospital placed in "immediate jeopardy" for the 3rd time since HCA bought them. This is the harshest sanction that CMS can levy against a healthcare institution.

THREE TIMES.

Via the #AVLWatchdog

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#Asheville
Mission Hospital placed in immediate jeopardy; sanction is third since sale to HCA • Asheville Watchdog
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has placed Asheville’s Mission Hospital in immediate jeopardy, the third time since 2019 that the hospital has faced the harshest sanction that can be...
avlwatchdog.org
October 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
adapadvocacy.bsky.social
This is extremely troubling news...

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Mission Hospital placed in immediate jeopardy; sanction is third since sale to HCA • Asheville Watchdog
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has placed Asheville’s Mission Hospital in immediate jeopardy, the third time since 2019 that the hospital has faced the harshest sanction that can be...
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October 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
sunlightresearch.bsky.social
🏫 What’s next for UNC Asheville? @avlwatchdog dives deep into Chancellor Kimberly van Noort’s leadership & the tensions shaping the university’s future.

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#LocalNews #Accountability
UNC Asheville’s future rests with Kimberly van Noort. Where is she taking it? • Asheville Watchdog
The Blue Ridge Room, a parquet-floored hall in the University of North Carolina Asheville’s Highsmith Student Union, can accommodate an audience of nearly 500. On a Wednesday night in April, the room ...
avlwatchdog.org
October 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
notfromoff.bsky.social
#NC < $33 million budget shortfall leads to widespread layoffs in Medicaid Ombudsman program avlwatchdog.org/33-million-b... via
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$33 million budget shortfall leads to widespread layoffs in Medicaid Ombudsman program • Asheville Watchdog
Nearly 40 employees connected to North Carolina’s Medicaid Ombudsman program, including nine at Pisgah Legal Services, will lose their jobs by the end of the year because of a $33 million shortfall in...
avlwatchdog.org
September 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
czarbucks.bsky.social
Well. This isn't going to improve anything in the 11th in #NorthCarolina

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Per the #AVLWatchdog #NCPol #USPol
Democratic congressional candidate Moe Davis suddenly quits his “kick-ass” campaign with a Facebook slap at party leaders • Asheville Watchdog
In a grievance-laced midnight Facebook post, Democratic congressional candidate Moe Davis dropped out of the race Saturday, effectively positioning Fairview farmer Jamie Ager as the party’s frontrunne...
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August 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
czarbucks.bsky.social
The #AVLWatchdog points out the enormous impact cuts to SNAP and other programs are having on Manna, our local #foodbank.

And this is after the pandemic, the destruction of Manna's warehouse, and ongoing effects of the Helene disaster here in #Asheville.

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SNAP cuts may double already soaring demand for food from MANNA • Asheville Watchdog
Amanda Wimbish works full time as a special education teacher at A.C. Reynolds High School and part time delivering meals for Uber Eats. But she is also raising her 12-year-old daughter as a single mo...
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August 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
czarbucks.bsky.social
A new #AVLWatchdog story on our loss of tree canopy during #Helene, and the larger missing piece of our Urban Forestry committee and Tree City designation.

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#Forestry #Trees #Planning
Asheville’s Urban Forestry Commission speaks for the city’s trees. It hasn’t met since Helene. • Asheville Watchdog
Asheville’s Urban Forestry Commission met on Sept. 3, 2024, with an agenda that, if unexceptional, represented the kind of work the volunteer advisory board had done since its inception at the beginni...
avlwatchdog.org
August 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
czarbucks.bsky.social
#Asheville is a dangerous place to cycle on the roads (our narrow, twisty, traffic-strewn roads) and people see "a lot of hate" per the #AVLWatchdog and their new article.

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#Cycling
Opinion: ‘It just feels like there's a lot of hate': Cyclists endure rage along Asheville area roads • Asheville Watchdog
Ask just about any regular cyclist out there about their close calls or abusive encounters with motorists, and you’ll get an earful. “Everybody I talk to — almost everybody — has been hit by a car,” c...
avlwatchdog.org
August 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
czarbucks.bsky.social
A new piece from #AVLWatchdog on the failure of #FEMA flood maps in #Asheville area during #Helene. NFIP is a mess.

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#Flood
'Dreadful' and 'hopelessly behind': FEMA flood maps reveal their flaws in a time of warming and extreme storms • Asheville Watchdog
If Steve Dunning’s Okie Dokies Smokehouse in Swannanoa appeared on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood maps, his lender would have almost certainly required flood insurance as a condition ...
avlwatchdog.org
July 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
czarbucks.bsky.social
Our local independent news source, the #AVLWatchdog had an excellent piece today, equating the natural disaster of #Helene with the man-made disaster the GOP is inflicting on this region and the nation. It's worth a read.

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#Asheville
OPINION: Helene devastated our region. Even more death and despair might be on the way. • Asheville Watchdog
[Editor’s note: John Boyle has the day off.] We can all agree that Tropical Storm (née Hurricane) Helene was the worst natural disaster to hit our region in recent memory, taking more than 100 lives a...
avlwatchdog.org
July 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
czarbucks.bsky.social
More information on the dangers of cycling bicycling in the #Asheville and #BlueRidgeMountain area from the #AVLWatchdog

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#Death
Death of 2 young riders shows Asheville area’s cycling paradise is sometimes lethal • Asheville Watchdog
When Andrew Crater was a young professional cyclist, riding and racing all over the world, he settled in Asheville to train. It’s no surprise, he said, that Jake Hill and Lennie Antonelli did the same...
avlwatchdog.org
July 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Yep. Heard them when riding - John Boyle at AVLwatchdog covered. He is good.
June 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM
czarbucks.bsky.social
The #Asheville Watchdog has an excellent story about yesterday's #HandsOff protest here, where they estimated 7,500 people attended, the largest protest in the city in a decade.

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Thousands crowd into Asheville’s Pack Square to protest President Trump’s policies as part of the nationwide “Hands Off!” movement • Asheville Watchdog
An estimated 7,500 local demonstrators joined the nationwide chain of anti-Trump protests Saturday demanding an end to the administration’s widespread cuts to most federal programs and demonstrating c...
avlwatchdog.org
April 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
czarbucks.bsky.social
#Asheville continues to lose nurses, something that this area with its large population of retirees, can ill afford.

Via #AVLWatchdog

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Buncombe has been losing practicing nurses for five years, data show • Asheville Watchdog
There are hundreds of fewer nurses practicing in Buncombe County today than there were at the start of 2019, even though the supply of nurses has increased both nationally and statewide since the end ...
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April 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
czarbucks.bsky.social
#Asheville French Broad Park will never be the same.

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#Helene #trees #AVLWatchdog
Answer Man: More questions about tree cutting in Carrier Park and French Broad River Park? When will east Asheville Lowe’s reopen? • Asheville Watchdog
Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies, and the real answers: Question: Regarding the tree cutting in Carrier Park and French Broad River Park, is the Army Corps of Engineers specifically ...
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March 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Army veteran has no regrets about yelling at Rep. Chuck Edwards, getting thrown out of town hall • Asheville Watchdog
The Arden army veteran who was escorted out of Republican Congressman Chuck Edwards’ town hall meeting Thursday night by a phalanx of law enforcement officers says he has no regrets about the expletiv...
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March 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
czarbucks.bsky.social
"Wildfire Season is Here. Helene and Doge Could Make it Worse."

Via #AVLWatchdog

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#Asheville #Helene #Wildfires #NCwx
Wildfire season is here. Helene and DOGE could make it worse. • Asheville Watchdog
When Chris and Sara Evensen bought their home off Elk Mountain Scenic Highway in 2018, they felt like they’d hit the natural beauty jackpot: a nice home on two acres, ensconced in a gorgeous hardwood ...
avlwatchdog.org
March 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
czarbucks.bsky.social
No, 10,000 people did NOT die during #Helene, for heaven's sake. Isn't our situation here bad enough, without ratcheting up the BS?

Via the #AVLWatchdog

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#Asheville
Opinion: Misinformation and disinformation is only getting worse, and no, 10,000 people did not die during Helene • Asheville Watchdog
We live in the age of information. And misinformation. And disinformation. Often, more of the latter two get pumped out around the globe than the former — you know, the actual real information, once r...
avlwatchdog.org
March 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
muckrake.bsky.social
Actual reader comment: “'Asheville Watchdog uses the Associated Press Style Book'….tells me all I need to know about avlwatchdog. Just another typical socialist/progressive rag in Asheville."
dicktofel.bsky.social Richard Tofel @dicktofel.bsky.social · Feb 24
This note from the White House chief of staff confirms: Trump is just starting with “Gulf of America.” He wants to force changes throughout the AP Stylebook.
No government should have the power to dictate to the press the words used in covering them. The Constitution forbids it.
February 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
czarbucks.bsky.social
Well, this is going to make a lot of people in West Asheville quite unhappy.

The long-dragged out I26 revamping now comes with a flyover of Patton Ave. Which no one has heard about, although apparently part of the "new" design for a year.

Per the #AVLWatchdog :

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Enormous — and controversial — I-26 bridge over Patton Avenue, nixed years ago, is quietly revived in Connector plan • Asheville Watchdog
As it inches toward its billion-dollar I-26 Connector project, the North Carolina Department of Transportation has trumpeted its efforts to keep costs down, including $125 million in cuts it announced...
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February 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
czarbucks.bsky.social
The fear in my community is increasing. We need all of our neighborhoods to be safe, and all of our residents to be helping in #Asheville's recovery. #NC

Via #AVLWatchdog:

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‘Our families, our people are scared’: Fear pervades Asheville, Buncombe immigrant communities in face of Trump-mandated mass deportations • Asheville Watchdog
Part one of three Immigrant communities in Asheville and Buncombe are living in fear and anxiety over the Trump administration’s vow to conduct the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history, ...
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February 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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🚨🚨🚨The @ArmyCorpsNAD THANKS GOVERNOR JOSH STEIN!!!! 🚨🚨🚨

Trump will eliminate federal aid for disasters & #ncpol will depend on our EXCELLENT DEMOCRATIC GUVS.

REAL HEROES: @RoyCooperNC @JoshStein_ POTUS @JoeBiden !!

Thanks for reporting @AvlWatchdog

#wnc
February 10, 2025 at 2:32 AM
czarbucks.bsky.social
The repairs of roads and bridges in the #Asheville area post- #Helene will take years, as you'd know if you'd ever seen the devastation.

Per the #AVLWatchdog

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NCDOT: Permanent road and bridge repairs from Helene damage will take years to complete • Asheville Watchdog
While nearly all the Helene-damaged bridges in Buncombe County have been temporarily repaired, along with hundreds of roadbed washouts, permanent repairs on many of these sites may take years, cost mi...
avlwatchdog.org
February 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM