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
[The following article was originally published by NC Newsline. Asheville Watchdog is republishing with its permission.] The state House has developed a wide-ranging plan to pay for mental health needs…
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Answer Man: What to do with spent EV batteries? ‘Detour’ signs in northern Henderson County?
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Down Town, Part 12: Affordable Housing Solves Homelessness. Asheville Has a Problem
It all comes down to housing. A safe, affordable place to live is both the primary solution to ending homelessness and the key to preventing it, according to two of…
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