Asheville Watchdog

Well, that stirred the pot a bit.

I’m referring to my column last Monday about downtown, which generated lots of emails to yours truly, and hundreds of comments online. While most folks seemed to apprec...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers:

Question: Did you know that cities, to attract attention to their dining scene, can fork over a massive amount of money to Michelin to get the organization to review their restaurants? An insider tourism source in another state has told me this, ahead of several Midwestern...

Mission Hospital has no plans to add staff in key areas – including trauma care, security, and nursing administration – as part of its recently approved, now-contested, 95-bed acute-care expansion, according to its application to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.

Despite conditional approval from NCDHHS to build its capacity up to 828 pati...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers:

Question: Why do some of the I-26 highway signs and exit signs around downtown Asheville still say “Future 26?” When will they be replaced with correct signs? Will they be changed once the I-26 Connector is built?

My answer: It is impressive that...

Upwards of 18,000 current and former Mission Health employees are entitled to back wages following a settlement over its practice of rounding down time that employees worked, not paying overtime and deducting wages for lunch breaks that they didn’t take.

The HCA Healthcare-owned network agreed to pay $1,563,000 to settle the class action lawsuit. Once lawyers fees...