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The year in review: Finding Kimberly van Noort, UNCA’s powerful and private chancellor
Editor’s Note: As 2025 comes to a close, Asheville Watchdog staffers take you back and inside their most memorable stories and news events of the year. I wasn’t paying very close attention to the press conference, I’ll admit. The news, on a morning in late August, was that the University of North Carolina Asheville would host the next two NAIA outdoor track-and-field championships — good for the university and the tourism bureau, but not an Asheville Watchdog story on its own. I was mostly focused on the backs of the heads in the audience, particularly a blonde bob atop a Bulldog-blue…
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Vice Mayor Antanette Mosley received primary-residence tax breaks on Atlanta home while serving on Asheville City Council
Asheville Vice Mayor Antanette Mosley has received primary-residence tax benefits on a home in Atlanta throughout her time on the City Council while also submitting election documents showing she lives in Asheville, a requirement of the office, property and campaign records show. Mosley has received homestead exemptions on the Georgia property – a way to reduce her property taxes – that are available only for owner-occupied dwellings since 2002. In an interview Thursday, Mosley acknowledged that she owns residences in both states but maintained that she lives in Asheville and spends most of her time here. Mosley, an attorney, said…
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Opinion: Is the Biltmore Championship golf tournament a good use of TDA funds? Or is it tone deaf?
My first reaction when I saw Asheville had landed a real, honest-to-Jack Nicklaus PGA tournament event was, “Holy shankopottamus! That’s great for Asheville!” The Biltmore…
Answer Man: What happened to the North Lexington Avenue sidewalk replacement project? Postal package takes crazy journey? Asheville mail going through Charlotte postal center now?
Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: I recently was walking up and down North Lexington Avenue downtown and noticed…
Incompetent leaders, overworked nurses compromised cancer patients at Mission Hospital, oncologist testifies
The cancer patients on floor K9 were among the sickest at Mission Hospital, in need of close monitoring. Dr. Martin Palmeri, an oncologist at Messino…
“There’s no way”: Huge ACA premium hikes force Buncombe policyholders to make hard choices, including dropping coverage
Virginia Gilbert was shocked and angry after she learned last week that premiums for her Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance policy will more than double…
HCA reports $3.8 billion increase in 2025, citing rise in admissions, volume
Mission Health’s corporate owner, HCA Healthcare, has seen its revenues increase by $3.8 billion in the first three quarters of 2025, the company reported. The…
Opinion: Get with the program, people, and do the ‘zipper merge’!
We should all get in touch with the zipper. The zipper merge, that is! Get your mind out of the gutter, and onto the interstate.…
Simple, short-term solutions to Asheville’s Black population decline are difficult to find, implement
The last of four parts The steady dwindling of Asheville’s Black population shows no sign of abating, but slowing or reversing this decades-long decline has…
Answer Man: Sit-down restaurant planned for Asheville Regional Airport? Not all gates have jetways? What happened to dancing girl statue downtown?
Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: I recently took my first flight out of Asheville Regional Airport since the…
Generous community support not nearly enough to fill gap in SNAP funding, food advocates say
Brittany Ebert thinks federal lawmakers might reopen the government and resume food stamp funding if they knew what it was like to feed three children…
Democracy Watch: The one-year countdown begins to midterm elections with big stakes. Can the nation live up to the ideals it embraced 250 years ago?
Next Nov. 3, just 52 weeks from now, voters from across the country will cast ballots in what is historically seen as a second-tier election.…
Answer Man: Why do local propane prices vary so much? Will official mountain elevations change because of rising sea levels?
Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: Regarding propane prices, I think there are two main issues that consumers should…
Opinion: The battle against river debris, especially IPEX pipes, still rages on…and will for years
It’s a wrestling match out there, folks. Every day. And sometimes you accidentally cut a catfish in half with a battery powered saw. More about…
Advance of the ‘slim-talls’: Big new homes mark gentrification upending Asheville’s historically Black neighborhoods
The third of four parts Sandra Smith has a name for the towering new homes squeezed onto tiny lots in Asheville’s historically Black neighborhoods: “Slim-talls.”…
“Biblical justice, equal justice, for all”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice transformed our state and America
This story was originally published by ProPublica. In early 2023, Paul Newby, the Republican chief justice of North Carolina’s Supreme Court, gave the state and…
Next steps on UNCA woods’ fate will take longer than planned, with original timeline scrapped, school leaders say
In August, when the University of North Carolina Asheville announced it was pausing a controversial plan to build a stadium-anchored development atop 45 acres of…
