Tag: Opinion

Failing the front lines

As cases of the coronavirus rise in Iredell County, don’t expect to be told the specific area of the county’s new diagnoses.

That would risk identifying a patient … and that is illegal, said Iredell County Health Director Jane Hinson.

Hinson cited Iredell’s size as the reason health officials here – unlike in other counties – don’t offer more detailed information about general locations of diagnoses. “The risk of identification related to the sharing of cities and zip codes is much greater in Iredell County than it is in a county with a population of greater than a million people,” she wrote in an email to the Scoop this week.

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What a cluster____!

A social-media post about an informational meeting on thyroid cancer and coal ash has left a lot of people scratching their heads this week

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Looking back: Mooresville’s 2023 candidate forum

The Scoop hosted an informative candidate forum for Mooresville’s town board on Thursday, Sept. 21. All candidates for public office attended*. We packed as much as we could into just over two hours; we chatted about growth and roads, government transparency, education and, of course, Josh’s Farmer’s Market.

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About Author

Hi! I’m Jaime

I was a newspaper reporter in Mooresville, NC for a decade and covered local government issues from 2003 to 2006.

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