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• Letters to the Editor: March 2019

  Created: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 11:36

  Trump encouraged to finish wall along Southern border Mr. Trump, build that wall!  I spent 35 years defending this country, sometimes behind fences and walls to protect our people and assets. Walls and fences work! I r...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: March 2019

  Created: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 11:29

  Riding a bus to Salisbury to catch a train? Not a test Could anything be more absurd than the report that Gaston County GOP Rep. John Torbett, chairman of the House Transportation Committee, said in ...

• Are we harboring horrors like slavery?

  Created: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 11:27

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet What will Americans yet unborn think of today’s Americans? These distant generations will judge us, you know, just as surely as we judge those who lived before us. In a New Yorker magazine article on Fred...

• The Candid Conservative: Is America going crazy?

  Created: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 11:24

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “Looks like what drives me crazy don’t have no effect on you – but I’m gonna keep on at it, till it drives you crazy, too.”  — Langston Hughes The Problem Don’t look now, but Ame...

• The real BBQ crisis

  Created: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 11:22

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet CHAPEL HILL  — North Carolina’s most important emergency is not the next federal government shutdown. Nor is it a fake national emergency on the nation’s Southern border. Our state’s real emerge...

• Buddy K Big Band ends show with swing’s ‘national anthem’

  Created: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 11:16

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   BLACK MOUNTAIN —  The Buddy K Big Band finished its Feb. 9 show with Frank Sinatra’s dazzling 1940 version (with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, of course) of “I’ll Be Seeing You”...

• Rock ‘n’ roll & Rachmaninoff to be paired at Amadeus fest

  Created: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 11:13

  From Staff Reports The Asheville Symphony recently announced the event lineup for the 2019 Asheville Amadeus festival, a 10-day multi-genre Mozart-inspired event designed for all tastes and ages.  The festival will begin March 15 and end ...

• Anti-Semite? Speaker in MLK keynote says foes trashing her

  Created: Sunday, 03 February 2019 21:41

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com Activist and co-organizer of the Woman’s March Tamika D. Mallory made several references to the plight of Jews —  saying they and other “oppressed people” need to work together, and she opined sev...

• NCDOT gives improvements update for I-26, other roads

  Created: Sunday, 03 February 2019 21:36

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com The local chief of the North Carolina Department of Transportation gave an update on area highway and road improvement projects during the Jan. 11 meeting of the Council of Independent Business Owners in UNC A...

• The Advice Goddess: February 2019

  Created: Sunday, 03 February 2019 21:30

  By AMY ALKON Syndicated Columnist Q: A lot of women are posting pix of themselves on Instagram in very skimpy attire. I don’t feel comfortable doing that (though I’m in great shape), because I’m single and I’m afraid men would think I’m “e...

• Mission Health’s sale clears final AG hurdle; deal completion pending

  Created: Sunday, 03 February 2019 21:28

  From Staff Reports After negotiating changes to a deal to — in his words — protect the public, state Attorney General Josh Stein said Jan. 16 that he will allow HCA Healthcare’s proposed purchase of Asheville-based Mission Health’s asse...

• AVL’s 3rd Women’s March? Cold, but draws thousands

  Created: Sunday, 03 February 2019 21:27

  From Staff Reports Participants in the annual Women’s March in Western North Carolina on Jan. 20 in Asheville said they “felt empowered and encouraged by midterm election victories that raised the profile of women in politics,” according to the Ash...

• Jonas Gerard’s artworks twice vandalized at airport

  Created: Sunday, 03 February 2019 21:26

  From Staff Reports Officials with the Asheville Regional Airport confirmed on Jan. 8 that an art display by Asheville artist, Jonas Gerard, had been vandalized twice in the previous seven days, Asheville’s WLOS-TV News 13 reported recently. Tina Kinse...

• Ex-officer sues ex-chief; alleges libel, slander in beating case

  Created: Sunday, 03 February 2019 21:25

  From Staff Reports An ex-Asheville police officer is suing the former police chief for alleged libel and slander after a highly publicized police beating, contending that the police chief used her as a scapegoat and took retaliatory measures ag...

• Chickenpox outbreak declared over in Asheville

  Created: Sunday, 03 February 2019 21:24

  From Staff Reports  A chickenpox outbreak in Asheville — reported in late 2018 — officially has ended, according to the Buncombe County Health and Human Services department.  The outbreak was traced to Asheville Waldorf School (located in ...

• PROTESTER: Mallory needs to repudiate Farrakhan’s hateful words

  Created: Sunday, 03 February 2019 21:22

  EDITOR’S NOTE: Asheville’s Harry M. Pierson was among the protesters who stood outside UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Hall immediately prior to Tamika Mallory’s Jan. 24 keynote address for UNCA’s celebration of Martin Luther King Week. Pierson, a form...

• Letters to the editor: February 2019

  Created: Sunday, 03 February 2019 21:13

  Immigration battle puts nail in abortion rights movement Immigration — and the anti-choice, Ortega/Chavez/Maduro “left” — has already destroyed the U.S. abortion rights movement, since there hasn’t been a majo...

• The Daily Planet’s Opinion: February 2019

  Created: Sunday, 03 February 2019 21:10

  Effort lauded to safeguard WNC as Mission Health sale wraps up This newspaper, along with many others individuals and groups in the area, was emphatically against the sale of Asheville-based nonprofit Mis...

• Cars need to be named. So might a party

  Created: Sunday, 03 February 2019 21:08

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet I spent the last 25 years of my working life naming things. My team named hundreds of products and companies – from NationsBank to a paint color for an airline. We had a good run. We never named a car. I nev...

• The Candid Conservative: Who’s maiming Asheville? Part III

  Created: Sunday, 03 February 2019 21:06

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.” — Tiffany Madison The Problem erhaps you’ve heard the sug...