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• Buncombe positivity rate drops; vaccine supply limited, plan reset

  Created: Monday, 01 February 2021 20:48

  From Staff Reports Buncombe County’s positivity rate for COVID-19 dropped to 7.5 percent on Jan. 26, a decrease of 1.3 percent points based on a seven-day average,  Buncombe Public Health Director Stacie Saunders told the Buncombe County Boar...

• Trump’s ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows joins DeMint group

  Created: Monday, 01 February 2021 20:47

  From Staff Reports WASHINGTON — Former White House chief of staff and former U.S. congressman Mark Meadows (R-District-11 North Carolina) on Jan. 27 unveiled his new post-White House job. Meadows has been hired as a senior partner at the Conserva...

• Buncombe order allows return to 50% capacity for restaurants

  Created: Monday, 01 February 2021 20:45

  From Staff Reports Effective immediately, restaurants in Buncombe County will be able to return to 50 percent of customer capacity, following the signing of an updated declaration of emergency by Brownie Newman, chairman of the Buncombe County Board of C...

• Letters to the Editor: Feb. 01-14, 2021

  Created: Monday, 01 February 2021 20:33

  The Candid Conservative’s Trump fawning Carl Mumpower is a master of the comically disingenuous understatement. It would be impressive if he were a satirist intentionally employing a clever literary device.  But I’...

• The Daily Planet’s Opinion: So glad that COVID-19 measures seem to be quashing seasonal flu

  Created: Monday, 01 February 2021 20:32

  We are seizing this opportunity to rejoice — early in seasonal flu season — that tough measures meant to tame the coronavirus pandemic appear to be quashing influenza and most other respiratory disesases, at least based on reports we have re...

• REASONABLENESS: ‘Time, like an ever-rolling stream,’ will take us where?

  Created: Monday, 01 February 2021 20:30

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet   There’s an old saying: “History is written by the winners.” Nobody knows who said the saying first; I like Winston Churchill’s version: “For my part, I consider that it ...

• The Candid Conservative: Crazy cat ladies on the prowl

  Created: Monday, 01 February 2021 20:27

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.”  ― Ogden Nash   Weak is a relative term. When it com...

• Miss Donald? Gonna love Joe

  Created: Monday, 01 February 2021 20:25

  EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Ted Rall's first column to appear in the Daily Planet. A political progressive who lives in Cambridge, MA, he is a syndicated opinion columnist, a syndicated political cartoonist and an author. •  From mainstream...

• Miss Donald? Gonna love Joe

  Created: Monday, 01 February 2021 20:25

  EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Ted Rall's first column to appear in the Daily Planet. A political progressive who lives in Cambridge, MA, he is a syndicated opinion columnist, a syndicated political cartoonist and an author. •  From mainstream...

• Birthday tribute set for guitar great Django Reinhardt

  Created: Monday, 01 February 2021 20:24

  From Staff Reports   A belated birthday show paying tribute to Django Reinhardt will be performed at 7 p.m. Feb. 7 on the Main Stage at Isis Music Hall in West Asheville. Jean Baptiste “Django” Reinhardt was born on Jan. 23, 1910 and d...

• Sawyer Brown ready to rock

  Created: Monday, 01 February 2021 20:23

  From Staff Reports  NEWBERRY, S.C. — The high-energy Sawyer Brown band aims to delight the crowd with its many country-pop music hits at 8 p.m. Feb. 19 at Newberry Opera House. A promotion stated, “CMT, CMA and ACM award-winning grou...

• Asheville Gallery of Art’s ‘Portraits of Imagination’ show set for March 4-28

  Created: Monday, 01 February 2021 20:22

  From Staff Reports Asheville Gallery of Art recently announced that it is welcoming viewers to the final installment of new-member shows, “Portraits of Imagination,” which will be on display March 4-28.  â€œThis collection of art fr...

• The Advice Goddess: Couching tiger

  Created: Monday, 01 February 2021 20:19

  By AMY ALKON Syndicated columnist I’m a woman in my late 20s in a happy, committed relationship. I had the idea of going to a therapist with my boyfriend so we can learn to communicate better, etc. Friends I’ve told about this see it as ...

• Dems want a return to civility; when did they practice it?

  Created: Monday, 01 February 2021 20:17

  BY LARRY ELDER Syndicated columnist This column was posted on Jan. 28.   A 2020 Joe Biden campaign ad described the pending election as an “opportunity to leave the dark, angry politics of the past behind us.”  After Bidenâ�...

• Girl Scout troop reaches out to help Asheville area homeless people

  Created: Sunday, 17 January 2021 21:26

  By AMY BARNES Special to the Daily Planet Our Girl Scout troop 2119 started with a simple idea — blessings bags. These are typically gallon-size Ziploc bags with snacks, sample size toiletries and other small items. The idea is that th...

• UNCA named a College of Distinction in 20-year anniversary cohort

  Created: Sunday, 17 January 2021 21:22

  From Staff Reports UNC Asheville has been recognized for its honorable commitment to engaged, experiential education by Colleges of Distinction, which is celebrating its 20-year anniversary as a one-of-a-kind guide for college-bound students.  In...

• Violent crime mecca? Asheville ranks in top 10% of most-violent U.S. cities

  Created: Sunday, 17 January 2021 20:18

  From Staff Reports    Asheville recently was ranked in the top 10 percent of the most-violent cities in the United States, as reported Jan. 4 by the Asheville Citizen Times and on Jan. 5 by Asheville television station WLOS (News 13). However...

• 62 sworn police officers depart from APD in 2020, leaving unit down 35%

  Created: Sunday, 17 January 2021 20:17

  From Staff Reports   The Asheville Police Department lost a total of 62 employees during calendar year 2020, according to APD spokeswoman Christina Hallingse. Specifically, she emailed the Daily Planet on Jan. 12, in response to the newspaperâ€...

• Cawthorn facing accusations that he incited violent attack on Capitol: Viral petition seeks his resignation; Dec. 21 talk to group to ‘lightly threaten’ lawmakers triggers yet another uproar

  Created: Sunday, 17 January 2021 20:15

  From Staff Reports    Western North Carolina U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-Hendersonville, continues to find himself embroiled in controversy for participating in the pro-Trump rally that preceded the chaos at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 that l...

• Litigation and/or civil disobedience needed to save city ‘crown jewel’ Vance Monument, black activist says

  Created: Sunday, 17 January 2021 20:12

  Second (and last) in a series   By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   As for the future of the Vance Monument, which the city recently voted to demolish, the battle is not over, acccording to black Southern heritage activist H.K. Ed...