Andrew Jones
@arjonesreports
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Investigative reporter with @AvlWatchdog | text/call/Signal: 828-674-9702 | email: arjones at avlwatchdog dot org | former - @asheville, @DailyTimes
Asheville, NC
Joined March 2020
Thanks to @AHCJ and Mary Chris Jaklevic for highlighting immediate jeopardy coverage. Journalism can be the catalyst for improvement at local hospitals.
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NEW: A memo I obtained today shows UNC is suspending all general education requirements and major-specific requirements mandating completion of course credits related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The move comes after a Jan. 21 Trump order.
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RT @AvlWatchdog: Mission Health has permanently closed Asheville Specialty Hospital, the only long-term acute care hospital in western Nort…
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RT @UNC_Press: “What I don't want is for somebody to read this book [ANATOMY OF A PURPLE STATE] or skim this book and then have that be the…
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RT @AvlWatchdog: “The health consequences of flooding may be described in terms of time as immediate, medium-term, and long-term,” a 2009 s…
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RT @AvlWatchdog: Nearly 70 percent of western North Carolina’s cell phone towers and equipment are out of service, leaving hundreds of thou…
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RT @vifatusin4: "It is a shame that we ended 2023 with seven staff neurologists and will be ending 2024 with two." For months, @arjonesrepo…
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“I live all the way up here in Wisconsin,” he told dispatchers on Dec. 1, 2023. “It’s about a friend of mine that is potentially either going to harm himself or harm a lot of people.” A gripping portrait of sickness and loss from @vifatusin4
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RT @vifatusin4: "When you call the police, sometimes they'll come and sometimes they won't." Great reporting from @ryleyober shows Ashevill…
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“I’m concerned we were not informed. I’m openly concerned about that.” @vifatusin4’s analysis finds five western North Carolina mobile parks are at risk of something dangerous their residents didn’t know about.
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RT @JenF_writer: First story for @NCHealthNews from our new #aging and legislative reporter @g_vitaglione. Her previous work with @CPublicP…
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“Some days I don’t eat because he doesn’t eat,” said Thornton… “I don’t want to hurt my unborn child. So I try to eat some crackers and cheese and stuff, but I don’t eat a meal because he doesn’t eat a meal.”
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“I feel like there was some type of help out there for me,” she said. “I just didn’t know where to look.”
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“It came about so quickly. We just heard about this,” she said. “It’s not like it’s been coming and they’ve been saying this for a long time.” New from @vifatusin4
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From @vifatusin4 "The biggest thing is not being able to serve the families who need it,” Weston said, referring to the evaporating money. “We still are required to operate a quality [child care center] that the state of North Carolina says we have to do."
Dozens of childcare providers closed classrooms today to rally outside the #NCGA. They warn that as federal relief funds expire next month, up to 1/3 of childcare centers in NC expect to close permanently...unless they get other funds. #nced #ncpol
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RT @tayknopf: Former employees of a North Carolina psych hospital allege they were told to falsify records, including documenting more seve…
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