Water outage report: City botched communications, mayor exerted “extreme” pressure on staff members
This is a developing story and will be updated. The City of Asheville has released its long-awaited Independent Review Committee report on the devastating holiday season water outage, and it highlights the city’s ineptness in what it called “murky” communications, providing accurate information and even identifying who was actually in charge. The report also said…
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Sheriff’s Report: Promised Downtown Partnership Between Asheville Police, Buncombe Deputies Never Happened
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How to spend $1 billion to improve North Carolina’s mental health system
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