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• Developer pulls application, dropping Bear Creek project

  Created: Monday, 03 February 2020 12:30

  From Staff Reports  The developer of a controversial mixed-use development in West Asheville “has pulled the application for the project,” Asheville television station WLOS News 13 reported on Jan. 6. “Plans called for 802 units, ...

• Buncombe names new emergency services director

  Created: Monday, 03 February 2020 12:29

  From Staff Reports Following “a rigorous, nationwide search yielding many highly qualified candidates, Buncombe County is proud to announce that Van Taylor Jones will be our next director of emergency services, effective Jan. 21,” Buncombe Co...

• Letters to the Editor: February 2020

  Created: Monday, 03 February 2020 12:26

  Mumpower’s â€˜great intellect’ laps liberals around track  I enjoyed Carl Mumpower’s opinion piece, run in place of his monthly column (Daily Planet, Vol. 16, No. 2). His smug assertions of fact and ideology are u...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: February 2020

  Created: Monday, 03 February 2020 12:24

  Crossroads project defeat ranks as greatest win in WAVL history It was a red-letter day on Jan. 6 for the residents of traffic-clogged, overdeveloped, but nonetheless funky, artsy and eclectic West Asheville, ...

• A nation’s greatness can disappear quickly

  Created: Monday, 03 February 2020 12:22

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet Nothing has been the same since the Invasion.  We never recovered.  Over the years, historians have written about the “War of Wars” and how it was lost — and nobody has ever real...

• THE CANDID CONSERVATIVE: Myth-busting 102

  Created: Monday, 03 February 2020 12:18

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.”  — Scott Peck   The Problem Mr. Webster defined “Myth” as a...

• City reviews 2019 results, possible 2020 initiatives

  Created: Monday, 03 February 2020 12:17

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com  City of Asheville officials conducted a year-in-review as well as presented potential new initiatives for 2020 during the Jan. 17 meeting of the Council of Independent Business Owners at UNC Asheville�...

• The Advice Goddess: February 2020

  Created: Monday, 03 February 2020 12:14

  From here to eternity By AMY ALKON Syndicated Columnist My roommate has this need to tell me all about his day when he gets home. Making matters worse, his main form of communication is complaining. I need quiet time when I come home, not a sec...

• ‘The British Are Coming!’ salute sizzles

  Created: Monday, 03 February 2020 12:11

  Crowd left calling for more; setlist included songs ‘influenced’ by the British Invasion By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com The five-piece Asheville-based group...

• Omni Grove Park Inn’s Big Band Weekend bedazzles

  Created: Monday, 03 February 2020 12:08

  Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra entertains Big Band fans, dancers at posh soirée  The Jimmy Dorsey Band was featured at the 30th annual Big Band Dance Weekend that drew hundreds of ballroom dancers Jan. 10-12 at the Omni Grove Park Inn in North Asheville....

• Saluda gives Perry Como a Christmas salute: Late iconic singer, wife spent many summers in WNC vacation home

  Created: Wednesday, 01 January 2020 14:35

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com  SALUDA — The late singer extraordinaire Perry Como, a beloved former summer resident of Saluda, who, in turn loved this Polk County city now numbering 713 people, was honored in a program about ...

• Como, Christmas, Saluda ... ah, the memories

  Created: Wednesday, 01 January 2020 14:33

  EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is the main address given during the Christmas salute to Perry Como in Saluda on Dec. 20: By NANCY PEW Member with Historic Saluda Committee    For those of us who grew up in the ‘50s, ‘60s a...

• Airport’s growth skyrocketing, official says

  Created: Wednesday, 01 January 2020 14:30

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com An update on activities at the Asheville Regional Airport — highlighting its its status as one of the fastest-growing airports in the nation — was presented to the Council of Independent Busine...

• WAVL development hearing continued: Proposed Bear Creek development triggers marathon venting of views

  Created: Wednesday, 01 January 2020 14:24

  From Staff Reports After about seven hours of debate, the Buncombe County Board of Adjustment decided to continue the Dec. 11 public hearing to Jan. 23 about a controversial development in West Asheville, Asheville television station WLOS (New...

• Group admits error in text of narrative

  Created: Wednesday, 01 January 2020 14:23

  An erroneous assertion was made in a statement headlined “Walkable West Asheville’s Firestorm narrative,” the complete text of which was published in December’s Asheville Daily Planet. The narrative was presented by members of t...

• Councilman Young proposes Green New Deal for Asheville

  Created: Wednesday, 01 January 2020 14:22

  From Staff Reports A local “Green New Deal” — including what he said would constitute the state’s largest “community” solar farm and a renewal of the 1970s “dollar-a-lot” program to help lower-income resi...

• County board divided over chair’s fare-free city-county transit plan

  Created: Wednesday, 01 January 2020 14:21

  From Staff Reports Public transit in Asheville and Buncombe County need to be fare-free — and county taxpayer funds should be expended to fund such a proposition, at least according to Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Chairman Brownie Newman...

• Haynes says he won’t seek re-election

  Created: Wednesday, 01 January 2020 14:20

  From Staff Reports Asheville City Councilman Brian Haynes said he would not seek re-election to the council.  Haynes made the announcement on his Facebook page on Dec. 2. “When my term is up I will have served five years and I believe itâ�...

• Student climate activists removed from Asheville City Hall

  Created: Wednesday, 01 January 2020 14:19

  From Staff Reports Hundreds jammed the streets of downtown Asheville on Dec. 6 as part of a nationwide protest about combating climate change, according to an estimate by Asheville television station WLOS (News 13). “The climate strike that starte...

• Massive development near South Slope OK’d by council

  Created: Wednesday, 01 January 2020 14:18

  From Staff Reports  Asheville City Council voted 5-1 on Dec. 10 to approve a zoning change for the area between Ashland and Coxe avenues that will result in a massive development. “Yes” votes were Vice Mayor Gwen Wisler and council memb...