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• Flatiron Bdg. conversion plan tweaked, wins city OK

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:43

  Boutique hotel to offer 71 rooms, instead of 80 From Staff Reports  A revised plan to convert downtown Asheville’s iconic traingular-shaped Flatiron Building, completed in 1927, into a boutique hotel was ...

• Asheville not a ‘connected community,’ panel says

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:34

  With gentrification, tourism, city’s black population feeling left out? By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   UNC Ashevlle’s Leadership Asheville program hosted a lively panel discussion that...

• City manager hires new police chief; begins job July 29

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:34

  From Staff Reports After what it termed “a national search informed by robust input from our local community,” Asheville City Manager Debra Campbell “is excited to announce” that Chris Bailey will become Asheville’s next police chief, according...

• APD HQ renamed to honor its 1st black lieutenant Walter Robertson

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:33

  From Staff Reports  Asheville City Council on June 11 voted unanimously to name the Asheville Police Headquarters in memory of former Asheville Police Lt. Walter Robertson.  “During his 28-year tenure at the Asheville Police Department, ‘W...

• Developer files suit against county over project denial

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:32

  From Staff Reports A South Carolina-based property developer  is suing Buncombe County over its denial of plans for a 214-unit apartment complex in East Asheville. “In April 2018, the county Board of Adjustments rejected a plan by RAB Builders to...

• Buncombe names 2 women as assistant county managers

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:31

  From Staff Reports Buncombe County Manager Avril Pinder recently announced the hiring of two new assistant county managers: Dakisha Wesley and Sybil Tate. The announcement on June 14 followed a months-long national search, the county said in a press rel...

• UNCA board agrees to divest $5M of its fossil fuel investments

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:30

  From Staff Reports Following a multi-year effort initiated by UNC Asheville student leaders, the UNC Asheville Board of Trustees on June 21 approved using Environmental, Social and Governance criteria for a portion of its endowment that will be divested ...

• Jubilee! founder Hanger retiring; successor’s installation set Sept. 22

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:30

  From Staff Reports Asheville’s Jubilee! Community will recognize and celebrate the installation of Amy Steinberg, its new minister of ritual and celebration, at 9:45 and 11:15 a.m. Sept. 22.  Jubilee! Community is located at 46 Wall St. in downto...

• 2 Hendersonville ministers retiring

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:29

  From Staff Reports    HENDERSONVILLE — Two ministers at churches based in Hendersonville recently announced their retirements. The Rev. Jim McKlinley, who delivered his last sermon on June 2, retired after 22 years of serving the Unitarian ...

• Ex-undercover agent finishes saga, fields questions

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:27

  Second in a series of two stories   EDITOR’S NOTE: The first part of this story included most of the May 17 speech by Chris Gaubatz, former undercover agent for the U.S. government, to about 50 members of the Asheville Tea Party and others — ab...

• Letters to the editor: July 2019

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:21

  Contrary to columnist’s view, Trump's a terrific president t never ceases to amaze me that many people, Mr. (Lee) Ballard (a Daily Planet columnist) included, seem to think that Presidenrt Trump is a bad president, in spite of all the wonderf...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: July 2019

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:20

  City school board (loose with funds) should be elected So yet another Asheville school superintendent is leaving after an embarrassingly short term of service and is receiving a golden parachute from our free-spend...

• Two presidents, different and alike

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:18

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet   A portrait hovers over Donald Trump’s desk in the Oval Office  ̶̶  a man with a Mona Lisa smirk and froofy hairdo that’s first cousin to Trump’s.  We know him as Andrew Jackson f...

• The Candid Conservative: Wackily wrecking women – Part II

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:16

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”  —  J.K. Rowling   The problem Last month we took on the tacky task of suggesting the women�...

• The Advice Goddess July 2019

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:12

  Baptism by liar By AMY ALKON Syndicated Columnist I was talking with this guy whom I’ve known for over six years who lives a plane ride away. It was late at night on a weekend, and he was saying all this mushy sexy stuff and how he wa...

• FRP delivers rollicking ‘enchanted evening’ with ‘South Pacific’

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:06

  With A-plus musical score, play masterfully shows ‘you’ve got to be taught’ racism, cultural bias “Most people live on a lonely island, Lost in the middle of a foggy sea. M...

• WNC offering plethora of events for Fourth of July holiday

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:04

  From Staff Reports Western North Carolina will feature a number of events to celebrate the Fourth of July, with — possibly — the biggest bang being Asheville’s Independence Day gala from 2 to  10 p.m. in Pack Square Park in downtown...

• UNCA’s new students assigned to read Isay’s ‘Callings’

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:03

  From Staff Reports UNC Asheville’s new students will be reading “Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work,” by StoryCorps founder Dave Isay, as part of the university’s Summer Reading Program.  The book shares personal stories r...

• Leadership Asheville’s Buzz Breakfast Series Begins June 20

  Created: Tuesday, 04 June 2019 12:05

  FROM STAFF REPORTS Leadership Asheville, a program of UNC Asheville, will host its 2019 Buzz Breakfast series with the theme, “How Do We Build a Connected Community?” The breakfasts, to be held June 20, July 25 and Aug. 14 at the Crowne Plaza Resort...

• BCGOP ‘coup’ alleged; issue sent to panel for final verdict

  Created: Tuesday, 04 June 2019 11:58

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com    REYNOLDS — An impassioned dispute over whether the Buncombe County Republican Party must follow the stricter North Carolina GOP Plan or Organization versus the freer Buncombe County GOP Plan of...