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• Mark Meadows: WNC’s puzzle in Congress

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2019 11:41

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet Mark Meadows made a bid to be Donald Trump’s chief of staff. Trump turned him down. Aw shucks. We came so close to getting rid of a bad congressman. Bad, but how bad? What are his badnesses? Read on. I wro...

• Flap erupts over whether to ban Southern Belles from AVL parade

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2019 11:39

  From Staff Reports A troupe of young women, dressed as Southern belles in massive pastel hoop skirts, created a stir through their participation in the annual Asheville Holiday Parade on Nov. 17. The 12 young women from Alabama strolled down Patton Aven...

• Women’s March’s co-president to be keynote speaker at UNCA’s MLK event

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2019 11:37

  From Staff Reports Tamika D. Mallory, national co-president of the Women’s March, will deliver the keynote address for UNC Asheville’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Week. The keynote talk is the highlight of a week focusing on King’s moral legacy,...

• Review: Christmas show turns chill into holiday warmth

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2019 11:33

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com FLAT ROCK— On Dec. 22, the last night of “A Flat Rock Playhouse Christmas,” the temperature was in the mid-20s (with wind chill) outside, but, inside, the FRP’s annual holiday musical ext...

• Flat Rock Playhouse’s 2019 lineup unveiled

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2019 11:30

  From Staff Reports FLAT ROCK — The Flat Rock Playhouse recently announced its upcoming season of shows during its 2019 Season Reveal event, which drew more than 120 people. Lisa K. Bryant, Scott Treadway, Paige Posey and Mark Warwick — accompanied b...

• UNCA’s Reuter Center Singers offer December performances

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 17:00

  The Reuter Center Singers this month will present two holiday concerts, singing at the Biltmore House on Dec. 7, and offering a free performance at 7 p.m. Dec. 10 at the choir’s home base, UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center.  Now celeb...

• A-B Tech wants its tax funds

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 16:58

  From Staff Reports Leaders at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College have taken new — and formal — steps to find out how spent millions in sales tax dollars that were meant for the school instead were spent by Buncombe County. Spec...

• Ideas unveiled to shift tax burden to tourists

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 16:56

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer unveiled a plan under consideration by the city to shift the tax burden more to tourists to ease the burden on locals during a Nov. 9 meeting of the Council of Independent Busi...

• The Advice Goddess: December 2018

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 16:49

  He’s surely the best man for the sob By AMY ALKON Syndicated Columnist Q: I’m a 28-year-old guy with an amazing girlfriend. She gets upset and sometimes cries, and I never know how to soothe her. I’m afraid to say the wrong thing, so I don’...

• Buncombe elects 1st black sheriff

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 16:48

  From Staff Reports By a resounding margin, Democrat Quentin Miller was elected Buncombe County’s new sheriff and the first-ever African-American to hold the position during the Nov. 6 general election. He triumphed despite a hard-fought bat...

• Buncombe elects 1st black sheriff

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 16:48

  From Staff Reports By a resounding margin, Democrat Quentin Miller was elected Buncombe County’s new sheriff and the first-ever African-American to hold the position during the Nov. 6 general election. He triumphed despite a hard-fought bat...

• Incumbents hold seats; 4 of 6 amendments OK’d

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 16:47

  From Staff Reports With all precincts reporting statewide, here are the results — excluding the sheriff’s race featured in the adjoining story — in the general election on Nov. 6 in races affecting the Buncombe County (asterisks denote w...

• 87-room Foundry Hotel opens in The Block area in downtown AVL

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 16:45

  From Staff Reports  The Foundry Hotel,  part of Hilton Worldwide’s Curio collection, opened its doors on Nov. 20 at 51 S. Market St. It is Asheville’s newest downtown hotel. Developer David Tart noted that the opening culminated years of ...

• N.C. Appeals Court rules in favor of downtown Embassy Suites plan

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 16:44

  From Staff Reports  The developers who proposed a 185-room Embassy Suites hotel in downtown Asheville are entitled to a conditional use permit for their hotel planned at 192 Haywood St. because the City of Asheville had failed to make a case to stop...

• Asheville bans e-scooters. but keeps open possibilities

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 16:43

  From Staff Reports Asheville City Council on Nov. 27 voted to forbid electronic scooters in the city, with ban proponents citing safety concerns and lack of permits or other notification efforts with the city. Others expressed skepticism that e-scooters...

• City doubles (or more) fines for parking infractions

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 16:43

  The City of Ashevlle recently announced that it is doubling its parking fines, beginning Feb. 1 These include $20 for overtime parking (up from $10), each subsecquent violation within 24 hours, $30 (up from $20), loading/unloading zone violations, $30 (u...

• AVL ranks 2nd best for local shopping during holidays

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 16:40

  ‘Paris of the South’ — only topped by Laguna Beach, Calif. — continues to win accolades From Staff Reports Asheville is the second-best city in the United State...

• APD’s 1st female chief resigns after stormy tenure; given $118K

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 16:39

  From Staff Reports After a three-year tenure that turned tumultuous in the last six months, Tammy Hooper, the Asheville Police Department’s first female police chief, announced her resignation, effective Jan. 2. What’s more, she will be leaving with...

• Creighton plea deal in kickback scheme OK’d

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 16:38

  From Staff Reports A federal judge moderated restrictions on the release of former assisant Buncombe County manager Jon Creighton and formally accepted a plea agreement between Creighton and prosecutors in connection with a bribery scheme that involved a...

• Greene’s son agrees to pay back $40K to county

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 16:37

  From Staff Reports The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners on Nov. 20 agreed unanimously to accept a $40,000 settlement from former county employee Michael Greene. The payment provides relief sought in the county’s civil lawsuit against Greene and ...