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• Letters to the Editor: April 2019

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:44

  What socialism is and isn’t; Sanders, AOC? Mislabeled It is about time that the American people were educated and informed about what true “socialism” is and is not.   The fact is that, in true socialism, “the means of p...

• The Daily Planet’s Opinion: April 2019

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:41

  Move soccer complex out of floodplain to avoid $1M bills So it is good and bad news that East Asheville’s popular-but flood-prone John B. Lewis Soccer Complex, which has been closed since major flooding last...

• Looking for a restoration specialist

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:39

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet   Years ago, when I was young and working, I was approached by a company needing help with their name. The company’s business was house fires. They did everything necessary to return the house to its o...

• The Candid Conservative: Who’s writing your script?

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:37

  “To have doubted one’s own first principles is the first mark of a civilized man.”  —  Oliver Wendell Holmes By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet   The problem In the early part of the 20th century, Germany was arguabl...

• City Councilwoman Julie Mayfield to seek District 49 N.C. Senate seat

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:34

  From Staff Reports  Asheville City Councilwoman Julie Mayfield announced on March 23 that she plans to run for the North Carolina Senate seat in District 49. “Not only will I take on climate change and restore protections for air and water, I wil...

• THE ADVICE GODDESS: Woman wonders about her eye anxiety

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:16

  By AMY ALKON Syndicated Columnist Q: I’ve been with my boyfriend for four years. I thought I was super happy, but I recently got a crush on a co-worker. Now I’m worried that maybe I’m not totally satisfied in my relationship. If I were truly in ...

• Biltmore Gardens Railway to make sparks fly

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:09

  Asheville’s Biltmore Gardens Railway is bringing large-scale model railroads and handmade buildings to two locations on the estate — the Conservatory&n...

• Edwin McCain to perform for fire fighters’ show

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:07

  From Staff Reports Edwin McCain will perform in concert at 8 p.m. April 5 at the U.S. Cellular Center in downtown Asheville in a fundraiser for the Asheville Fire Fighters Association. “Called the ‘great American romantic’ by the New Y...

• Annual Heritage Classic’s dance competitors? Bedazzling

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:05

  From Staff Reports The pro show — as usual — was a highlight of the 32nd annual Heritage Classic Dancesport Championships, which featured competitive ballroom-style dancing from  Feb. 26 to March 2 at the Omni Grove Park Inn in North Asheville...

• Tickets available for Dirty Dancing Festival

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:03

  From Staff Reports   LAKE LURE — Ticket sales began in mid-March for the 10th anniversary of Lake Lure’s Dirty Dancing Festival on Sept.13-14. Tickets may be purchased by visiting www.dirtydancingfestival.com.  “This two-day celebratio...

• ‘Muslim Mafia’ author says U.S. faces big Islamic threat

  Created: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 12:09

  By JOHN NORTH  john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com  SKYLAND — Chris Gaubatz, undercover agent in the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas and author of the book “Muslim Mafia” (telling of that experience), described on Feb. 12 the threat to this nat...

• New Asheville city manager says she plans to ‘collaborate’

  Created: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 12:06

  Asheville’s new City Manager Debra Campbell shared her goals and aspirations for the city — and said her job is to “collaborate” rather than to be “a mover and a shaker” — during a Feb. 1 meeting of the Council of Independent Business Owners...

• The Advice Goddess: March 2019

  Created: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 11:58

  America's next top (plastic) remodel? Q: I’m seeing so many women on Instagram who’ve had themselves made over to be super hot through cosmetic surgery and injectable fillers. They all have the same face — with big, luscious lips and huge doll-li...

• New Buncombe county manager named

  Created: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 11:57

  From Staff Reports  The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously on Feb. 5 to hire Avril Pinder as its new county manager. Pinder, who will be the first African-American to hold the county’s highest job, officially begins her duti...

• APD beating victim arrested on drug charges

  Created: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 11:56

  From Staff Reports Johnnie Rush, who nearly a year ago made headlines around the world as the subject of a severe beating by an Asheville police officer, was arrested again recently by the city’s police. The Asheville Citizen Times reported that Rush,...

• County to cease honoring ICE detainers, sheriff says

  Created: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 11:55

  From Staff Reports   Buncombe County Sheriff Quentin Miller announced during a Feb. 26 press conference that he is making a major change in his office’s relationship with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as simply “ICE...

• Holocaust survivor recounts history of anti-Semitism

  Created: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 11:52

  The first story in a two-part series   By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   Weaverville resident and Holocaust survivor Walter Ziffer addressed “Anti-Semitism” on Jan. 31 at the UNC Asheville Highsmith Center’s Grotto — and...

• After Mission purchase, HCA names new chief of its N.C. hospitals

  Created: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 11:51

  From Staff Reports   NASHEVILLE, Tenn. — After its Feb. 1 announcement that Nasheville-based, for-profit HCA Healthcare has finalized its purchase of Asheville-based nonprofit Mission Health, HCA announced a change of leadership at Miss...

• Edwards says N.C.’s education spending sure to be increased

  Created: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 11:47

  From Staff Reports Speaking first at the Feb. 1 meeting of the Council of Independent Business Owners at UNC Asheville, state Sen. Chuck Edwards, R-Hendersonville, prompted laughter from the crowd when he good-naturedly quipped, “I’m maybe the warm...

• New UNCA chancellor touts the liberal arts; unveils school’s vision

  Created: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 11:46

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   Nancy J. Cable, the recently named eighth chancellor of UNC Asheville, shared her vision for the university during a Feb. 1 address to the Council of Independennt Business Owners at UNCA’s...