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• UNCA to mark 40th anniversary of arrival of 1st enslaved Africans with keynote speaker

  Created: Wednesday, 02 October 2019 22:42

  From Staff Reports UNC Asheville will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in what is now the United States with a series of educational and cultural events beginning Oct. 20 and culminating in a keynote addre...

• Extreme gerrymandering found in Asheville, Buncombe; redraw ordered by state judicial panel

  Created: Wednesday, 02 October 2019 22:39

  From Staff Reports State legislative districts in Buncombe County “are extreme partisan gerrymanders that must be quickly redrawn along with most General Assembly districts, a judicial panel has said as part of landmark ruling on how North Carolina...

• Asheville council OKs almost $1M to narrow Charlotte St. to 3 lanes

  Created: Wednesday, 02 October 2019 22:39

  From Staff Reports    Asheville City Council voted 7-0 on Sept 10 to pay $973,556 to Harrison Construction-Candler Division for a Charlotte Street “road diet” project — between Edwin and Chestnut streets — that includ...

• Asheville council OKs 1-yr. hotel moratorium

  Created: Wednesday, 02 October 2019 22:38

  From Staff Reports Asheville City Council on Sept. 24 unanimously approved a one-year hotel moratorium, a period during which city leaders say they will work on land-use practices and policy recommendations for hotel development. At the moment, eight ho...

• Create 72 Broadway project denied by council

  Created: Wednesday, 02 October 2019 22:37

  From Staff Reports Just prior to its vote to impose a one-year hotel moratorium on Asheville, City Council — in what the Asheville Citizen Times described as “a swift 7-0 vote” — unanimously voted to deny a major hotel project i...

• In bid to reduce estate traffic, Biltmore unveils major changes in its parking, driving policies

  Created: Wednesday, 02 October 2019 22:36

  From Staff Reports  Aiming to reduce traffic on estate grounds, Biltmore Estate, which features America’s largest private home, recently announced that it is is revamping its parking and driving policies in a major way, effective Oct. 30.&nbs...

• Chick-Fil-A to open in West Asheville; 2nd location in Hendersonville looms

  Created: Wednesday, 02 October 2019 22:35

  From Staff Reports Chicken sandwich giant Chick-fil-A is planning to build a new restaurant with a drive-through off Smokey Park Highway in West Asheville. The restaurant would be located at 139 Smokey Park Hwy in an outparcel lot owned by — an...

• Mountain State Fair link as source for Legionnaires’ outbreak examined

  Created: Wednesday, 02 October 2019 22:34

  From Staff Reports Buncombe County health officials reported that, as of Sept. 24, there have been nine confirmed cases of Legionnaires' disease reported in Buncombe County and one death caused by the illness. “Six more (cases) have been confirmed...

• NCDOT starts $1.5 project to add 2 left turn lanes at corner of Patton and NLH

  Created: Wednesday, 02 October 2019 22:33

  From Staff Reports Construction began Sept. 3 on two left-turn lanes that will be added at the busy intersection of Patton Avenue and New Leicester Highway in West Asheville, according to a press release from N.C. Department of Transportation. Any roadw...

• Letters to the Editor: October 2019

  Created: Wednesday, 02 October 2019 22:24

  What is there to like about President Donald Trump? Fox News recently took its poster boy President (Donald) Trump to task for lying about Hurricane Dorian, Russian meddling, crowd sizes, the Wall, etc. Add cheati...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: October 2019

  Created: Wednesday, 02 October 2019 22:23

  In, arguably, one of the worst moves in the vaunted history of the so-called “Paris of the South,” Asheville City Council voted unanimously Sept. 10 to pay $973,556 for a “road diet” project on Charlotte Street that includes reduci...

• David, Cyrus and Donald: 3 peas in a pod

  Created: Wednesday, 02 October 2019 22:22

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet Mark Sanford is running for president against Donald Trump.  They’ll slam each other in the campaign, but they’re of one mind about “vessel theology.” Remember when Sanford was...

• THE CANDID CONSERVATIVE: Why Wanda?

  Created: Wednesday, 02 October 2019 22:19

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.”  —  Edmu...

• Calling all Earthlings: Area 51 events suffer from low attendance; one concert cut short

  Created: Wednesday, 02 October 2019 22:18

  From Staff Reports  RACHEL, Nev. — In a follow-up to the Storm Area 51 event, The Washington Post reported Sept. 25 in its Style section that “at least 2,000 people” attended “a gathering inspired by a viral Facebook event a...

• Asheville’s Flatiron Building sells for $15 million; Next? Renovation, conversion to boutique hotel

  Created: Wednesday, 02 October 2019 22:16

  From Staff Reports Downtown Asheville’s historic Flatiron Building was sold Aug 27 for about $15 million to a development group, the Asheville Citizen Times reported Sept. 9. The 20 Battery Park Ave. property was acquired by Flatiron Preservation...

• Mayfield grilled over hotel moratorium plan

  Created: Wednesday, 02 October 2019 22:15

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com    Asheville City Councilwoman Julie Mayfield gave a presentation to Council of Independent Business Owners — as promoted on the CIBO agenda — “on efforts to place a hotel morato...

• Downtown activists ask city to handle crime, safety

  Created: Wednesday, 02 October 2019 22:12

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com  Two women said they are organizing downtown Asheville residents and property-owners to address concerns about danger lurking (ever increasingly, in their view) in the city’s core urban area ...

• After 2 months, Asheville police chief resigns; questions arise on felony

  Created: Wednesday, 02 October 2019 22:08

  From Staff Reports   Asheville Police Chief Chris Bailey, who was named to the post in June and began his new job on July 26, recently announced his plans to resign for “personal reasons,” effective Sept. 27. A new police chief is expe...

• The Advice Goddess: October 2019

  Created: Wednesday, 02 October 2019 22:02

  Friend over backward A friend agreed to dogsit while I flew up to visit my ailing dad. She bailed at 7 p.m. the night before I flew out, saying she needed three days to pack for a vacation. She never even apologized. I don’t want to be f...

• Lake Lure Dirty Dancing Festival packs a wallop

  Created: Wednesday, 02 October 2019 21:07

  Despite rain, gala swings, sways onward with fun galore By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com    LAKE LURE — Despite persistent rain and resulting slippery conditions, performers and attendees ...