Felicia Sonmez
Growth and Development ReporterFelicia Sonmez is a reporter covering growth and development for Blue Ridge Public Radio.
Prior to joining BPR, Felicia worked for more than a dozen years as a print journalist, including as a national political reporter for The Washington Post. From 2013 to 2018, she was based in Beijing, where she worked as a China correspondent for the international wire service Agence France-Presse and as an editor for The Wall Street Journal. She also spent a year in advanced Chinese language study as a Blakemore Fellow at Tsinghua University.
A native of Hackensack, New Jersey, Felicia graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Government. She loves hiking, backpacking and listening to live music. She is the proud owner of a tuxedo cat named Yogurt.
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The county wants to join the North Carolina attorney general’s lawsuit, citing extended wait times in the emergency room.
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A TSA PreCheck enrollment truck will be visiting the airport in mid-April.
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Boston-based Affiliated Monitors, Inc. will be taking over as the independent monitor for the healthcare company.
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The proposal before the county planning board has changed since the debate was first introduced.
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The healthcare giant has a little over two months to resolve issues in patient care or else it may lose its federal Medicare and Medicaid funding.
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The move comes nearly eight weeks after a 12-year-old boy died at the Transylvania County camp.
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The NC Court of Appeals ruled a North Carolina county can’t spend hotel tax and tourism dollars on public safety services.
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The latest listening session comes as the county planning board moves closer toward a decision on the proposal.
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Federal authorities notified the hospital Thursday that it had failed to comply with several requirements related to emergency room care.
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A new educational center on the state's Civil War history opens in Fayetteville in 2027 — but already, its mission is well underway in Western North Carolina.