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NC regulators inspect Mission/HCA in Asheville; nurse: conditions better when they visit
ASHEVILLE - State health regulators are conducting another inspection of Mission Hospital following patient deaths and other compliance problems. A nurse union representative, meanwhile, welcomed the visit, saying management improves conditions when the regulators are present − something a hospital spokesperson denied. The inspection, which began May 20, comes...
Opinion: Mexican immigrants to Asheville worked hard, raised family, benefit our economy
“I know poverty and I know fear,” he said. Then he told me his story about pursuing the American dream. “The fear I know is from lying on the ground under a bush in the desert at night, with police car lights flashing in the distance, without moving, hiding, praying, waiting for the 'coyote' to give the signal that it is OK to move on. And the poverty I know has to do with wearing the same pair of pants, the same underwear, socks, shoes and shirt for 15 days while crawling, running and sweating in the desert.”
Madison ridge top group plans to scrap 50-foot setback, but subdivisions 'main offender'
MARSHALL - Madison County's Ridge Top Subcommittee, composed of five members of the county Planning Board, stressed its intentions to move deliberately in drafting its recommendations to send back to the Planning Board. In its first special meeting May 24, the subcommittee, comprised of Madison County Planning Board members Daniel...
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