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• Letters to the Editor: May 2019

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:28

  Remembering Frank Sinatra — 21 years after his passing  Hard to believe singer/actor/entertainer Frank Sinatra left us on May 14, 1998, leaving behind a multitude of classic performances from virtually every facet of  of the entertainmen...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: May 2019

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:25

  WNC air quality improves; let’s do even better We rejoice in the news that the air in Western North Carolina is “amazingly” cleaner than it was not only at a low point in the 1970s, when the area was besieged with...

• GOP’s REDMAP scheme? Truly evil

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:23

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet   I’m not going to say that REDMAP is wrong.  No, I’m going to say it’s evil. And I’m also going to say that Democrats wouldn’t do what REDMAP does. RDMAP slime is red. REDMAP (Redistrict...

• The Candid Conservative: An absence of malice

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:19

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”  —  Winston Churchill   The problem We live in a time of accelerating ma...

• The Advice Goddess: May 2018

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:15

  ‘Eye will always love you?’ Beware I’ve long been a “Shallow Hal,” attracted to women’s youth and physical beauty and less concerned with integrity. Not surprisingly, I keep getting into relationships with women who a...

• Biltmore Estate to host 6 summer concerts

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:08

  The Beach Boys to launch star-studded series From Staff Reports The Beach Boys, arguably America’s greatest rock band, will launch the 23rd annual Biltmore Concert Series this summer on July 25, according to Biltmore Es...

• Asheville’s Downtown After 5 series opens May 17

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:07

  From Staff Reports The 31st season of Asheville’s Downtown After 5 concert series will begin with the Eric Gales Band  from 5 to 9 p.m. May 17. As for Gales, a DA5 press release stated, “Hailed as a child prodigy and frequently compar...

• Hendersonville’s Music on Main concert series to begin June 7

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:05

  From Staff Reports HENDERSONVILLE — “The summer season will get into full swing with the return of the popular Music on Main Street” Concert Series from 7 to 9 p.m. every Friday — June 7-Aug. 23 —  in the parking lot next to the ...

• UNCA announces graduate program scholarships and fall classes

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 23:37

  From Staff Reports UNC Asheville’s Master of Liberal Arts and Sciences is now enrolling for the fall 2019 semester, and applicants who apply by April 30 will be given priority consideration for scholarships. The scholarship program is new this year, th...

• Muslim official rips Daily Planet for publicizing an ‘Islamaphobe’

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 23:22

  From Staff Reports The chief spokesman for a major national Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, headquartered on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., emailed the Asheville Daily Planet on March 6, slamming the newspaper’s decision to cover and run a s...

• ‘Good to be here for my periodic drubbing,’ Mayfield tells CIBO

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 23:20

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com    A report on the progress (or lack thereof) on the I-26 Connector project that is to cross West Asheville and cost an estimated $950 million was presented by Julie Mayfield, a member of Asheville ...

• On 7-5 vote, A-B Tech OKs deal with county on sales tax debacle

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 23:18

  From Staff Reports The A-B Tech Board of Trustees on March 6 voted 7-5 to approve an agreement with Buncombe County that specifies how sales tax revenue intended for campus construction will be spent over the next eight years.  To date, $15 million...

• BCGOP chooses retired teacher as its new leader

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 23:18

  From Staff Reports The Buncombe County Republican party elected Jerry Green as its new leader on March 2, according to Asheville’s WLOS-TV New 13. “I want to work with the community, help others, bring people together,” Green told WLOS shortly aft...

• Antler Hill’s ‘Asheville Bandstand’ concert series to begin April 1

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 23:16

  From Staff Reports The Biltmore Estate recently unveiled the first part of its schedule for the 2019 “Asheville Bandstand” daily concert series, which starts April 1 and runs until November. The concerts feature performers using the gazebo — next ...

• $45M redevelopment plan for AVL Mall? City says take it back to drawing board

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:54

  From Staff Reports   Asheville City Council voted unanimously on March 12 to continue the public hearing on a proposed $45 million redevelopment of closed Sears properties at the  Asheville Mall. Council never made a motion to vote on the pro...

• Under pressure, Murdock resigns from Eblen Charities post, A-B Tech board

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:53

  From Staff Reports The executive director of Asheville’s Eblen Charities announced recently his immediate departure from his post after a 47-year-old woman told the news media that he sexually abused her when she was his teenage student  Bill Mur...

• Holocaust survivor discusses ‘camps,’ Nazis, anti-Semitism

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:50

  Second in a series of two stories   By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   EDITOR’S NOTE: Weaverville resident and Holocaust survivor Walter Ziffer, a local scholar now in his 90s, addressed “Anti-Semitism” on Jan. 31 at the UN...

• Asheville ranks 14th for ‘bang for your buck?’ Some locals scoff?

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:50

  From Staff Reports Asheville, often touted for its desirability as a place to live (or visit) by city-rankers, recently was  named No. 14 on Livability’s “2019 Top 100 Places to Live” for its “bang for your buck.”  Specific...

• Fryar gives update on agreement on A-B Tech tax issue

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:48

  From Staff Reports The Buncombe Board of Commissioners and A-B Tech Board of Trustees had “been working on this for a long time,” Mike Fryar said — of an agreement that had been reached recently between the two parties — in an address at the Marc...

• City planning chief reviews accomplishments, issues

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:47

  From Staff Reports Asheville Planning Director Todd Okolichany began his presentation with much laughter from the audience — as Okolichany joined in the merriment — after Buzzy Cannady, chief and emcee of the Council of Independent Business Owners, m...