Joel Burgess
Government Accountability Reporter at Asheville Citizen Times
Working, playing, raising a family in one of the best places in the world.
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2 months ago |
oklahoman.com | Joel Burgess
Our kids faced a unique trauma with the COVID-19 pandemic. And while technology is scary, isolation is worse, especially for a child edging up toward puberty. God help us, we just gave our 11-year-old an iPhone. I generally think technology is terrible. I’m definitely a “late adapter” and prefer to have my friends explain new apps and things to me that I tell them are stupid before the next year flipping and becoming the biggest fan of Spotify or whatever.
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Oct 17, 2024 |
usatoday.com | Joel Burgess
For me, one of the more surreal pieces of news to come out of post-hurricane North Carolina was this: A U.S. Forest Service staffer relayed a report of truckloads of armed militia members “hunting FEMA” relief workers.
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Sep 17, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Joel Burgess
Joel Burgess, Asheville Citizen TimesSeptember 17, 2024 at 1:07 PM·2 min readNorth Carolina State House of Representatives District 114The 114 District, like all North Carolina state legislative districts, has been redrawn by Republican legislators. The new version of the 114th will cover eastern and south central Buncombe County. It is a Democratic leaning district. State representatives are elected to two-year terms.
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Sep 17, 2024 |
citizen-times.com | Joel Burgess
U.S. House of Representatives District 11The 11th District is the farthest west of North Carolina's 14 congressional districts. Like the state's other U.S. House districts it was recently redrawn by Republican state legislators and leans in favor of the GOP. The district has 16 counties and is anchored by Democratic Buncombe County and surrounded by GOP counties. The last three representatives were Republican, including current congressman Chuck Edwards. House members serve two-year terms.
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Sep 3, 2024 |
citizen-times.com | Joel Burgess
ASHEVILLE - Registered nurses at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C. voted 97% in favor of authorizing their nurse bargaining team to call a strike, should they deem it necessary in bargaining with HCA over pay, staffing and safety issues, according to National Nurses United which represents the Mission nurses. NNU made the announcement Sept. 2. Voting started Aug. 25.
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