“The local housing crisis is dire and certainly deserves front-page coverage, but it continues a trend of treating police officers differently than other people.”
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Letter: Why won’t medical offices answer the phone?
“It is so frustrating to call any medical practice (since COVID) and be put on hold or leave a message requesting a return call and never have anyone answer or return your call in a timely fashion. What in the world is going on?”
Protecting Buncombe children and families requires passion
“This is a really hard job,” says Rutha, who requested her last name be omitted for safety reasons. “So there has to be a desire to want to help people and to want to intervene and keep children safe and support families.” That desire has been tested lately, as the investigations division has struggled with staffing shortages, peaking in May when 11 of the department’s 29 positions were vacant.