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My very first rock concert was the Rolling Stones at Hampton Coliseum in December 1981, when I was 17. As I’d bought general ...
President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” that passed in the House last week may financially stress tens of thousands of ...
For months, public health experts have been monitoring a trend equal parts promising and perplexing: a steep decline in ...
In my years observing politics and hurricanes at The Miami Herald I frequently rewatched the 1948 thriller “Key Largo,” which ...
While you might not be wowed by the frequent flotillas of brightly colored tubes drifting down the French Broad River this ...
The Asheville Police Department declined Tuesday to file charges following allegations that Republican Congressman Chuck ...
Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: I hope I’m not abusing your inbox with my questions, but I have a new one that is of major interest to me and I would ...
HCA Healthcare, the corporate owner of Mission Hospital, maintains it honored its asset purchase agreement (APA) in 2024, the ...
Mission Hospital’s corporate owner, HCA Healthcare, reported revenue of $18 billion in the first quarter of the year, up $1 billion from the same period last year. Net income, or profit, was also up — ...
Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: Like it or not, you are the go-to expert on cicadas, thanks to your previous columns on the subject. So, Professor ...
I do love the Asheville rumor mill. Partly because it always seems to rotate around and get hung up on an “old faithful” topic we all know and love: the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium. Most recently, I heard ...
Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: I live in the Kenilworth area, on Beaucatcher Mountain. Normally by this time of year we’d be seeing bears out and ...