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• The Advice Goddess: They blow up so fast

  Created: Thursday, 01 July 2021 21:54

   I’m a man in my 30s, and I’m looking to settle down and start a family. I was falling in love with the woman I’ve been seeing for six months, who seems lovely, intelligent and kind. Recently, I arrived at her place early and ove...

• Bandstand series resumes at Biltmore’s Antler Hill Village — on weekends only

  Created: Thursday, 01 July 2021 21:53

  From Staff Reports    Following its cancelation last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Live Music at the Bandstand series on Biltmore Estate’s Village Green at Antler Hill Village resumed in mid-June, with weekend-only concerts...

• Area to make fireworks fly on July 4th following end of pandemic limits

  Created: Thursday, 01 July 2021 21:51

  From Staff Reports  Area communities, with pandemic restrictions lifted, will be holding Independence Day celebrations mostly on the Fourth of July this year, which falls on a Sunday, while some are celebrating a day early — and Canton, as pe...

• HVL’s Music on Main to resume July 9

  Created: Thursday, 01 July 2021 21:49

  From Staff Reports  HENDERSONVILLE — Following a year off because of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, the annual Music on Main series will resume with Daniel Sage on July 9 —  with free concerts every Friday 7-9 p.m. through Aug....

• Asheville’s Downtown After Five series to begin July 16; three concerts planned

  Created: Thursday, 01 July 2021 21:48

  From Staff Reports    The Downtown After 5 outdoor concert series, which was canceled in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, will resume 5-9 p.m. July 16 with two acts — Joe Lasher and Acoustic Syndicate — on North Lexi...

• The Embers, beach music sensations, to play July 11 at Pt. Lookout Vineyards

  Created: Thursday, 01 July 2021 21:47

  From Staff Reports  EDNEYVILLE —  The Embers, billed as “beach music sensations,” will perform from 6 to 9 p.m. July 11 at Point Lookout Vineyards’ Summer Concert Series at 408 Appleola Road. “There are many ban...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: One-party rule leads to pre-planned APD collapse

  Created: Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:42

  The Asheville Police Department, truly this city’s “finest” (especially in contrast to the “woke” crowd), is on its deathbed, announcing on June 2 that it no longer will be able to respond to certain crimes because of a seve...

• UNC System names new members of Executive Leadership Institute — UNCA Provost Garikai Campbell chosen for 2nd cohort

  Created: Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:32

  From Staff Reports CHAPEL HILL, N.C. –  The University of North Carolina System has named a select group of 24 participants to its Executive Leadership Institute, according to a UNC System press release dated May 5. Thi...

• Decision to halt destruction of Vance Monument? ‘It’s historic!’

  Created: Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:24

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com The June 4 decision by the North Carolina Court of Appeals to order Asheville and Buncombe County to desist in deconstructing the Vance Monument in heart of downtown Asheville was “a very his...

• N.C. Court of Appeals orders city/county: stop demolition

  Created: Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:22

  From Staff Reports  The North Carolina Court of Appeals on June 4 ordered the City of Asheville and Buncombe County to halt their demolition of the Vance Monument in downtown Asheville. “The order said Asheville and Buncombe County must desis...

• Citing severe staffing crisis, APD releases list of crimes it no longer will respond to

  Created: Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:18

  From Staff Reports The Asheville Police Department — experiencing an increasingly severe staffing crisis — announced on June 2 a number of changes in officer response, going into effect immediately, “in order to improve response times...

• Franklin Graham urges evangelicals to get vaccinated: Advice leaves some evangelicals fuming

  Created: Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:14

  From Staff Reports BOONE —  The Rev. Franklin Graham, an Asheville native, son of the late (and world-famous) evangelist Billy Graham and now chief of his father’s massive Christian outreach operations and his own Samaritan’s Pu...

• COVID-19 metrics show percent positivity stable; hospitalizations stay low

  Created: Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:13

  From Staff Reports The percent positivity for COVID-19 is staying stable at 2.8 percent and local hospitalizations remain low in Buncombe County, based on the metrics for the seven days ending May 28, according to Buncombe Public Health Director Stacie S...

• Letters to the Editor: June 15-30, 2021

  Created: Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:01

  Bill Press’ column just too funny Living in today’s America, where we may be slowly moving to a disasterous civil war, I really do appreciate that you include a humor column amongst your otherwlse great and more serious content. Of cou...

• Evangelicals give Christianity a bad name

  Created: Tuesday, 15 June 2021 10:58

  This column was posted on May 27. By BILL PRESS Syndicated Columnist For a president of the United States, Joe Biden did something highly unusual this week: something I’d bet you never even heard of — till now.  On Tuesday evening...

• The Candid Conservative: Our police aren’t safe — neither are you

  Created: Tuesday, 15 June 2021 10:56

  “And maybe remind the few, if ill of us they speak, that we are all that stands between the monsters and the weak.” — Michael Mark     By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet The number one job of government is pu...

• Liberals’ fear of an unmasked nation? Bizarre

  Created: Tuesday, 15 June 2021 10:54

  This column was posted on June 5. By TED RALL Syndicated Columnist During last year’s campaign, Joe Biden promised to “listen to the scientists.”  He repeatedly said his coronavirus-response policy would be “informed by...

• On reparations: John F. Kennedy vs. Robert F. Kennedy

  Created: Tuesday, 15 June 2021 10:52

  This column was posted on May 27. By LARRY ELDER Syndicated Columnist When did the civil rights movement go off the rails? The answer is when proponents went from justly demanding equal rights to unjustly demanding equal results. As to exactly wh...

• Super PAC formed with aim of getting Rep. Cawthorn fired

  Created: Tuesday, 15 June 2021 10:50

  From Staff Reports  Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-Hendersonville, is the target of a new political action committee, Asheville television station WLOS (News 13) reported June 8. “The group is forming with one goal in mind —  to ‘...

• Asheville to mark July 4th with fireworks in scaled-back gala

  Created: Tuesday, 15 June 2021 10:49

  From Staff Reports  Following the COVID-19 pandemic that prompted its 2020 celebration to go virtual, the City of Asheville announced on June 7 that it will celebrate a scaled-back Independence Day this year with fireworks, beginning at 9:30 p.m. Ju...