Laura Hackett
Reporter at Blue Ridge Public Radio
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1 week ago |
bpr.org | Laura Hackett
North Carolina will use $807 million in federal funding to repair and rebuild the thousands of homes damaged by Hurricane Helene. Renew NC is now accepting applications from single-family homeowners who make low-to-moderate income and had their home damaged by the storm. The program takes a major slice from the $1.4 billion Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery grant allocated to the state by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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1 month ago |
bpr.org | Laura Hackett
Buncombe County is moving forward with a post-Helene health survey despite federal cuts abruptly canceling the project in April. The CASPER survey is used when communities have experienced severe and high-profile threats to public health. Usually, local governments partner with the CDC to run the survey but the service stopped last month when at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were dismissed.
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1 month ago |
bpr.org | Laura Hackett
Erik Mace is a member of the Asheville Mall Rats, a group of artists who are obsessed with malls. “We talk about malls all the time and how we all have different experiences with them, but there is a shared kind of language and a shared nostalgia,” Mace said.
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1 month ago |
bpr.org | Laura Hackett
A class action lawsuit is moving forward against an Asheville medical provider over a data breach affecting about 193,000 patients. The lawsuit consolidated the cases of five former Asheville Eye Associates patients who allege their data was compromised in November 2024. Robert Woodsmall, a former patient, alleged in his original complaint that the ophthalmology practice failed to use reasonable security procedures and properly secure and safeguard private information.
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1 month ago |
bpr.org | Laura Hackett
Swannanoa resident Susan Kask begged the county to raise her taxes at last night’s Buncombe County Board of Commissioners meeting. “An excellent education system isn't free,” she said during the public hearing about the fiscal year 2025-26 budget. “So, please raise my taxes and invest in our schools and community.
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RT @NewsHour: The remnants of Hurricane Helene have been wreaking havoc hundreds of miles away from where it made landfall in Florida three…
For more than a decade, local greenway advocates have campaigned to transform an old railway corridor into a 19-mile path between Hendersonville and Brevard. Two federal grants from the USDOT, will expedite that process. https://t.co/tacumm02zx
Good news for the western part of the state: The GREAT grant program will provide more than $16 million to boost broadband infrastructure in Western North Carolina. #wncnews https://t.co/w9KUg6Spt3
