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• Letters to the Editor: June 01-14, 2021

  Created: Tuesday, 01 June 2021 16:18

  Asheville’s Marxist takeover? Boycott the city  Your front-page article in the Vol. 17, # 12 (edition of the Daily Planet) about the Vance Monument is disturbing in that a far-left-wing fringe of radical socialists who have invaded the city o...

• Full-scale N.C. Apple Festival set Labor Day Weekend

  Created: Tuesday, 01 June 2021 16:16

  From Staff Reports  HENDERSONVILLE —  The 75th annual North Carolina Apple Festival will be held Sept. 3-6 (over Labor Day weekend, as usual) and centered in downtown Hendersonville. A recent statement on the festival’s Facebook ...

• Annual Lake Lure Dirty Dancing gala postponed again, return set in ‘22; upset fans vent their wrath

  Created: Tuesday, 01 June 2021 16:15

  From Staff Reports  LAKE LURE —  The annual Lake Lure Dirty Dancing Festival, which was scheduled to be held Sept. 24-25, recently announced on its Facebook page that the gala has been postponed until 2022. The postponement marks the se...

• Drifters, Platters, Coasters? Music ‘legends’ to perform June 11 in nostalgic show

  Created: Tuesday, 01 June 2021 16:14

  From Staff Reports SPARTANBURG, S.C. — A concert featuring three iconic vocal groups from the early days of rock ‘n’ roll — the Drifters, the Platters and Cornell Gunter’s Coasters — will be held at 8 p.m. June 11...

• The Advice Goddess: Fraud prince

  Created: Tuesday, 01 June 2021 16:10

  By AMY ALKON Syndicated Columnist I broke up with a guy I was dating after discovering he’d lied about his age on the dating app we’d met on. (He’s 48, not “39.”) I’d told him honesty’s a big deal for me....

• Math prof wins UNCA's community connections award

  Created: Saturday, 15 May 2021 15:41

  From Staff Reports Patrick Bahls, UNC Asheville professor of mathematics, is the seventh recipient of the university’s Community Connectors Award, given by the university’s Key Center for Community Engaged Learning. Bahls was recognized...

• ‘Staffing crisis’ forces APD to temporarily close lobby

  Created: Saturday, 15 May 2021 15:35

  From Staff Reports Effective May 3, the lobby at the Asheville Police Department was closed to the public. In an April 30 Facebook posting, the APD said the closure will be in effect until vacancies at the information desk are filled. People can still r...

• In defund APD nod, Roney leads city to reject $275,416 drug interdiction grant

  Created: Saturday, 15 May 2021 15:34

  From Staff Reports Asheville City Councilwoman Kim Roney’s move to request that the city remove a request from the consent agenda to accept $275,415 in federal funding for drug interdiction was successful, resulting in Asheville’s rejecti...

• Lawsuit dismissed seeking to preserve Vance Monument: ‘It’s not over,’ attorney claims. ‘I will pursue all legal avenues’

  Created: Saturday, 15 May 2021 15:32

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com Despite a judge’s dismissal on April 30 of a lawsuit by a Civil War history group that is seeking  — for history’s sake — to save the Vance Monument from looming demolition, th...

• Asheville snags 5th on ‘best places’ for singles list; Greenville places 2nd

  Created: Saturday, 15 May 2021 15:31

  From Staff Reports  Asheville recently was voted No. 5 on a list of “The Best Places to Live for Singles,” according Money Magazine’s article titled “The Best Places to Live for Singles: 7 Cities That Are Fun, Friendly and A...

• Asheville metro area: Priciest in the state, but wages ... lagging

  Created: Saturday, 15 May 2021 15:30

  From Staff Reports The Asheville metropolitan area has the highest cost of living in North Carolina, according to the recently released national price data from the Council for Community and Economic Research. The Asheville metro area includes Buncombe,...

• Ethnic intimidation charges filed following defacing of MLK monument in Hendersonville

  Created: Saturday, 15 May 2021 15:29

  From Staff Reports HENDERSONVILLE — The man suspected of defacing a Hendersonville monument that pays tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. is being charged with a rarely used ethnic intimidation charge, Asheville television station WLOS (News 13) rep...

• COVID-19 update: Trends still stable, vaccinations urged

  Created: Saturday, 15 May 2021 15:28

  From Staff Reports  COVID-19 trends in Buncombe County remain stable and walk-in vaccination appointments are available, county Public Health Director Stacie Saunders reported during her weekly COVID-19 community update at the May 4 meeting of the...

• Letters to the Editor: May 15-31-21

  Created: Saturday, 15 May 2021 15:13

  Republicans’ anti-vaxxer men called ‘snowflakes;’ as for Trump, treat him like Noriega, reader urges "Listen, let's call vaccine hesitancy what it really is: willful stupidity." —  Jimmy Kimmel   A recent NPR/...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: Just how does Greenville keep topping the ‘Paris of the South?’

  Created: Saturday, 15 May 2021 15:12

  It seems like every time we turn around these days, pesky and uppity neighbor Greenville, S.C., about 63 miles to the south of Asheville, tops Asheville in more and more of the quality of life polls. And, for Asheville, long known as the “Paris of ...

• The California recall: Big joke

  Created: Saturday, 15 May 2021 15:10

  This column was posted on May 6. By BILL PRESS Syndicated Columnist SAN FRANCISCO — Despite leading the country in so many ways — music, movies, fashion, technology, innovation, science — California’s still often unfairly ...

• The Candid Conservative: The left is eating it own toes

  Created: Saturday, 15 May 2021 15:06

  “The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.” — Rita Mae Brown   By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet One of the best ways to flag a declining relationship is when the participants begin turning on one another. That ...

• Burning a police station led to justice

  Created: Saturday, 15 May 2021 15:04

  This column was posted on May 8.  By TED RALL Syndicated Columnist As people of good will celebrate or merely breathe a sigh of relief in response to the conviction of Minneapolis former police officer Derek Chauvin for the videotaped murder...

• Rep. Maxine Waters’ anti-cop rhetoric is getting blacks killed

  Created: Saturday, 15 May 2021 15:01

  This column was posted on April 28. By LARRY ELDER Syndicated Columnist In June 2018, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., publicly exhorted her supporters to harass cabinet members of the Trump administration. At an outdoor rally in Los Angeles, Waters,...

• Removal of Vance Monument ‘can proceed,’ city press release claims

  Created: Saturday, 15 May 2021 14:57

  From Staff Reports The City of Asheville, the defendent in the lawsuit seeking to preserve the Vance Monument, on April 30 issued a press release headlined “Judge dismisses lawsuit seeking to block the city from removing the Vance Monument.” ...