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• Summit was laudable, but easy solution is hiring more officers, FOP leader says

  Created: Thursday, 22 June 2023 21:26

  While the Anti-Crime Summit held June 16 in Asheville appeared to be worthwhile, Rondell Lance, president of the local FOP, thinks the easiest solution to the spike in violent crime in Asheville and Buncombe County is to hire more police officers. �...

• Teen charged in shooting on first day of Juneteenth festival in Asheville... Organizers cancel festival’s last day

  Created: Thursday, 22 June 2023 21:24

  From Staff Reports The Asheville Police Department, in cooperation with the Department of Juvenile Justice, has charged a 16-year-old suspect in a shooting that occurred at the end of the first day of the two-day Juneteenth celebration festival in Ashevi...

• Fourth of July activities aplenty to rev up region to toast America’s birth

  Created: Thursday, 22 June 2023 21:19

  From Staff Reports The annual celebration of the founding of the United States of America on the Fourth of July in 1776 will feature many holiday-related galas and fireworks shows (on and around that date) in Western North Carolina as well as in the adjo...

• Summit worthwhile? If it produces results, ass’t DA says

  Created: Thursday, 22 June 2023 21:17

  From Staff Reports The Asheville-Buncombe County Anti-Crime Summit on June 16 was, at least in theory, a good idea, according Buncombe Assistant District Attorney David Denninger, who represented Buncombe DA Todd Williams’s office on the summitâ�...

• Asheville OKs 10% budget boost (to $240M) including city worker, police raises

  Created: Thursday, 22 June 2023 21:15

  From Staff Reports Asheville City Council unanimously approved the city’s $239.7 million budget — a 10 percent increase from the previous fiscal year — for fiscal 2023/24 on June 13, Asheville television station WLOS (News 13) report...

• Review panel presents report on water outage

  Created: Thursday, 22 June 2023 21:10

  From Staff Reports The Independent Review Committee on Water Outage presented its report to Asheville City Council at the latter’s scheduled June 13 meeting, according to a June 13 news release from the City of Asheville. “The IRC was sea...

• Conda Painter deserves credit in finding/uncovering of human remains at old W. Asheville car wash, reader says

  Created: Thursday, 22 June 2023 21:06

  Property developer Raveen Enterprise initiated demolition of the car wash at 680 Haywood Road (in West Asheville) in January 2021.   Questions concerning the future of the property circulated on social media — where a 17-year-old article from...

• The Daily Planet’s Opinion: To help pay for bike lanes, Asheville needs to enact licensing fee (like Honolulu) x

  Created: Thursday, 22 June 2023 21:03

  What a disaster Asheville’s Merrimon Avenue road-narrowing project has turned out to be.  The 1.5-mile segment on Merrimon from W.T. Weaver Boulevard to Midland Road (at Beaver Lake) recently was changed from a four-lane to a two-lane, with a...

• Chris Christie: He’s the born-again anti-Trumper

  Created: Thursday, 22 June 2023 20:00

  By BILL PRESS Syndicated Columnist First, he was 100 percent anti-Trump. Then, he was 100 percent pro-Trump. Now, he’s 100 percent anti-Trump again.  I’ll be honest. I don’t know what to think about Chris Christie. Thereâ€�...

• 8th earthquake in 4 weeks rocks area just to north of West Canton

  Created: Thursday, 22 June 2023 19:59

  From Staff Reports CANTON — The eighth earthquake near Canton in less than four weeks — since May 23 — struck just after midnight on June 16, according to the United States Geological Survey. More specifically, the USGS reported a m...

• The Candid Conservative: Offending the offensive

  Created: Thursday, 22 June 2023 19:56

  “If you’re offended by my boundaries, then you’re probably one of the reasons I need them.”                                       &nb...

• On the argument that we shouldn’t be aiding a corrupt country

  Created: Thursday, 22 June 2023 19:54

  By DENNIS PRAGER Syndicated Columnist I have supported aiding Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression.  I don’t understand conservatives who want America to watch Russia crush an independent country.  That is not the America I...

• The overzealous prosecutors of Jan. 6

  Created: Thursday, 22 June 2023 19:52

  By TED RALL Syndicated Columnist "Government,” observed the 14th-century Arab political theorist Ibn Khaldoun, “is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.”  Draconian prison sentences handed ...

• Right mission, wrong method in Asheville, Buncombe

  Created: Thursday, 22 June 2023 19:50

  By JOHN MIALL Special to the Daily Planet   Would everyone believing that the current popular wave of social justice initiatives is working please raise their hand and yell “Hooray?” Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘Sounds of Silen...

• Trump to speak July 1 at Pickens’ 4th of July celebration

  Created: Thursday, 22 June 2023 19:47

  Upstate children’s choir to sing National Anthem during Trump visit, after being silenced in D.C.  From Staff Reports PICKENS, S.C. — Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump will speak at Pickens’ Independence Day Spectacuklar ...

• Chi-Town Transit Authority aims to blow away fans with salute to the band Chicago

  Created: Thursday, 22 June 2023 19:45

  From Staff Reports   WALHALLA, S.C. — The Chi-Town Transit Authority will perform a musical salute to the iconic band Chicago at 7:30 p.m. June 24 in the Walhalla Performing Arts Center, 101 East North Broad Street, here.  Regarding th...

• Freedom Fest to be celebrated June 24 in Greer City Park

  Created: Thursday, 22 June 2023 19:44

  From Staff Reports GREER, S.C. —Freedom Fest will be celebrated from 6 to 10:30 p.m. June 24 in  Greer City Park, 301 E. Poinsett St., here.  “Freedom Blast annually allows the Greer community and visitors from across the Upstate ...

• Symphonic tribute to the Beatles set in Brevard

  Created: Thursday, 22 June 2023 19:43

  From Staff Reports BREVARD — A symphonic tribute to the Beatles will be performed at 7:30 p.m. June 27 in the open-air Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium at Brevard Music Center at 349 Andante Lane, here. The concert, “Revolution: The Music of th...

• Pair dance their way to small-group win in Hendersonville Senior Games

  Created: Thursday, 22 June 2023 19:41

  “Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets “And little man, little Lola wants you “Make up your mind to have (up your mind to have) “No regrets (no regrets) “Recline yourself, resign yourself “You’re through “I ...

• Author Thomas L. Friedman to speak at Asheville Ideas Fest on June 16

  Created: Wednesday, 07 June 2023 21:17

     UNC Asheville recently announced that the highly anticipated keynote address by bestselling author and New York Times foreign affairs columnist, Thomas L. Friedman, will now be open to the public as a free but ticketed event....