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• Law prof ranks as N.C.’s Old Testament prophet

  Created: Sunday, 03 February 2019 21:04

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet CHAPEL HILL  — While I have been traveling up and down North Carolina’s roads in search of local eateries, UNC Law Scho ol professor Gene Nichol has been traveling the same roads looking for something ...

• Tommy Dorsey Orchestra fires up dancers during Big Band Weekend

  Created: Sunday, 03 February 2019 21:01

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com Dance enthusiasts seized the opportunity to “relive the swing era” to the music of the One and Only Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, featuring singer Brian Anthony, which was the centerpiece of the annua...

• The Center for Art & Inspiration to open in HVL’s FRP location

  Created: Sunday, 03 February 2019 20:59

  From Staff Reports HENDERSONVILLE — A theater vacated in downtown Hendersonville at the end of 2018 by the Flat Rock Playhouse is now the home of the Center for Art and Inspiration The Center will host events, beginning Feb. 23, at 125 S. Main St. Th...

• AJO finishes show with (a swing-shuffle) bang

  Created: Sunday, 03 February 2019 20:57

  BLACK MOUNTAIN — The Asheville Jazz Orchestra closed its sizzling Jan. 5 concert with Miles Davis’ “1954 jazz standard “Four,” triggering a standing ovation and a demand for an encore from the audience. While the AJO performed “Four” as an ...

• Great Decisions series to begin

  Created: Sunday, 03 February 2019 20:53

  From Staff Reports Global migration, cyber conflict, nuclear arms negotiations, and much more will be explored in the World Affairs Council’s spring 2019 Great Decisions lecture series at UNC Asheville, which begins Feb. 5.  The lectures take pla...

• DOT’s I-26 Connector plan sparks mixed reply

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2019 12:20

  From Staff Reports A public hearing on the proposed I-26 Connector project that would cross West Asheville prompted hours of comments from often-emotional speakers expressing a mixed bag of views — with a number in opposition (or at least req...

• Efforts to boost affordable housing outlined

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2019 12:17

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com The Council of Independent Business Owners heard a panel presentation titled “Affordable Housing: Issues and Solutions” on Dec. 6 in UNC Asheville’s Sherrill Center. Specifically, the panel was asked by...

• The Advice Goddess: January 2019

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2019 12:10

  Things that go bump in the knight I’m confused. Does treating women as equals mean not doing those things that would previously have been considered chivalrous, like opening doors and giving a woman your coat? What’s now...

• N.C. official challenges Mission sale plan

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2019 12:09

  From Staff Reports North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein told Asheville’s WLOS-TV News 13 in early December that he wants additional protections for rural Western North Carolina hospitals and their services — to ensure the interests o...

• SBI seeks culprit(s) after ruling that arson caused fire totaling shop owned by sheriff’s candidate searches for culprit(s)

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2019 12:08

  From Staff Reports WEAVERVILLE — The N.C. State Bureau of Investigation on Nov. 30 announced that it has ruled — as arson — a fire that burned down the Weaverville business of then-Buncombe County sheriff candidate Shad Higgins. The SBI...

• Alamo Drafthouse to join in AVL Mall redevelopment

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2019 12:08

  From Staff Reports  A proposed redevelopment project at the Asheville Mall with “food, beer and films are now all planned for the old Sears and auto center location with an Alamo Drafthouse Cinema,” Asheville’s WLOS-TV News 13 reported on Dec....

• Chickenpox outbreak spreads in Asheville, outside of school

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2019 12:07

  From Staff Reports  The Buncombe County Health Department in late November reported that an outbreak of chickenpox discovered in October is spreading in Asheville. Specifically, the report states that 37 students and four additional people are sick...

• Van Duyn announces candidacy for state lieutenant governor post

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2019 12:06

  From Staff Reports  Terry Van Duyn, a Democratic state senator from Buncombe County, will run for the state’s second highest office in 2020. Van Duyn, who serves as the minority whip in Raleigh, announced her candidacy n a social media post on th...

• Asheville to appeal hotel plan to N.C. Supreme Court

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2019 12:05

  From Staff Reports The City of Asheville on Nov. 28 announced its plans to appeal a decision by the state’s second-highest court earlier in November that ruled in favor of developers who want to build a 185-room Embassy Suites downtown despit...

• Buncombe scam update? Got $2.1M, need $900K more to ‘make us whole’ make us whole,’ Fryar tells CIBO

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2019 12:04

  From Staff Reports Buncombe County Commissioner Mike Fryar gave a “State of the Buncombe County Legal Update,” noting that much progress has been achieved in collecting taxpayer money lost in an alleged scam involving former county official...

• Cannady re-elected chief of Asheville-based CIBO

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2019 12:02

  From Staff Reports N.E. “Buzzy” Cannady III was re-elected president of the Council of Independent Business Owners during the Dec. 6 meeting at UNC Asheville’s Sherrill Center. Cannady, chief executive officer of M.B. Haynes Corp., was one of...

• Letters to the editor: January 2019

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2019 11:54

  Time has come to impeach Trump for his misdeeds pparently President Trump still thinks this whole thing about rising seas and melting snow (aka Climate Change) is a hoax so, in order to detract from scientific fact...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: January 2019

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2019 11:52

  Bicycles should not force narrowing of Charlotte Street The idea to reduce Charlotte Street from three to five lanes has once again emerged from zealous — and narrow-thinking (pun intended) — city leaders. Among th...

• The Candid Conservative: Who maimed Asheville? Part II

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2019 11:45

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” — J.M. Barrie, “Peter Pan” The Problem Last month, we suggested Asheville’s developing a limp. Let’s up the ante – as measu...

• A plaque for Bush in Chapel Hill?

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2019 11:43

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet CHAPEL HILL  —  “There should be an historic plaque in Chapel Hill honoring George Bush.” On the day (Dec. 1) after the former president’s death, Chapel Hill lawyer and chair of the town’s ...