Even as #AshevilleWatchdog refuses to link to the @bsky.app in order for #BlueSky contributors to republish Watchdog's articles, we #WNC readers still hang in there. #Mission was the nearest lifeline for me, my dad, my mother, patients, my aunts, Mission employees. Soon to be sold to highest bidder?

Mission cardiac patient dies after telemetry monitor disconnection; hospital declines nurses' request for emergency meeting • Asheville Watchdog A Mission Hospital cardiac patient died in late July after becoming disconnected from telemetry monitoring for at least an hour, and  hospital administration repeatedly refused to hold an emergency me...

More fuckery from #HCA and #MIssionHospital here in #Asheville after the death of yet another patient, and the continued under-staffing of our hospital system. This is what for-profit hospitals will all be doing in our current era soon.

Via the #AshevilleWatchdog

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11 months after Helene, commercial rebuilding in Asheville has become a longer slog than anticipated • Asheville Watchdog In the immediate aftermath of Tropical Storm Helene’s destruction last year, business owners’ optimism about rebuilding ran high in Asheville, even in the face of the enormity of the task ahead. But 1...

Another excellent article from #AshevilleWatchdog on the city's recovery from hurricane #Helene, especially in the Biltmore Village area. We've been doing our best to help New Morning Gallery!

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About 40 downtown Asheville businesses have closed since Helene; business leaders say they aren’t panicking • Asheville Watchdog While downtown Asheville emerged largely unscathed from Tropical Storm Helene, its lack of potable water for nearly two months and a dramatic dropoff in foot traffic have led more than three dozen bus...

The #AshevilleWatchdog has a new article on the store and restaurant closings in #Asheville since #Helene.

"It's not time to panic." Okaaaay.

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Asking City of Asheville to Use CDBG-DR Recovery Funding to Build Back Greener - Online petition The City of Asheville is set to receive $225 million in the form of the Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Response (CDBG-DR). Sunrise Movement WNC and friends appreciate the opportunity to co...

We're presenting this to City Council in ten days:
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Just donated to a local independent journalism outlet, the #AshevilleWatchdog. They have excellent reporting on our local area, providing invaluable info during and after #Helene, in addition to the larger view of #NC and the nation.

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#USPol #Resist

Mission sale wasn’t good for HCA either: A former top exec argues for a return to local control, n... Mission Health should not have been sold to HCA.  What is less obvious, but more important for the future of healthcare in western North Carolina, is that the purchase of Mission has not been good fo...

Guest column at the #AshevilleWatchdog on the possibility of getting #HCA to sell our #MissionHospital system back to a non-profit. Things are going very poorly right now for everyone involved.

Lawsuits, the NC Attorney General... HCA, read the room.

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'I was beginning to feel like I was on a sinking ship,' says former Mission hospitalist • Ashevill... Before he left Mission Hospital in January 2023, Dr. Scott Joslin did what he could to stop the exodus of his friends and colleagues, including 49 of his more than 60 team members. “I wish I’d had...

Another excellent story by #AshevilleWatchdog on the abysmal result of HCA buying our previously non-profit Mission hospital system.

And HCA? Wanted to keep docs from criticizing.

Doctors have fled, and the NC Attorney General has filed suit (not before time.)

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Founder of far-right sheriffs group touts recent honor from Chuck Edwards • Asheville Watchdog Richard Mack, a former Arizona sheriff and longtime hero to far-right anti-government activists, could barely contain his delight at receiving a rare honor from Republican Congressman Chuck Edwards: a...

My moronic Representative (NC11) Chuck Edwards, has handed the founder of the "constitutional sheriffs" organization a commendation and medal.

Via #AshevilleWatchdog
cc @juddlegum.bsky.social

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