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HCA Healthcare took control of Asheville’s nonprofit Mission Hospital seven years ago, on Feb. 1, 2019, but Groundhog Day seems the more appropriate anniversary. As in the 1993 film, the people of western North Carolina are trapped in a time loop. They’re forced to revisit the same hospital failures year after year.

At least four times since the sale — 2021, 2...


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I hang my head in shame these days.

Not because I’ve eaten 227 milk and bread sandwiches over the past week and a half, or even because I recently purchased a pair of electric heated socks. (A little slice of heaven, my friends!)

No, I tread the walk of shame, wearing my 3XL hairshirt of humiliation while self-flagellating with a cat o’nine tails made...


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Soaring food prices since the COVID-19 pandemic have fueled the affordability debate, but they’ve also led to a surge in sales and profits for grocery stores, including Black Mountain-based Ingles Markets.

Nationwide, grocery prices


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A committee dominated by University of North Carolina Asheville insiders will shape the future of the campus’ woods in a process shielded from the public, a move that critics of a proposed development on the site say shows the school has little interest in outside points of view.

UNCA on Tuesday unveiled the membership of its Millennial Campus Development Advisory ...


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For the third time in less than two years, Mission Hospital faces sanctions that could result in it losing crucial federal funding, CEO Greg Lowe told employees in a letter Thursday night.

The letter, obtained Friday by Asheville Watchdog, said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had notified the hospital that it had been placed in immediate jeo...


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