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• Asheville rated No. 14 for livability for LGBTQ retirees

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:42

  From Staff Reports Asheville recently was ranked as the 14th-best city in the nation for livability for LGBTQ retirees. The ranking was announced in April by SeniorAdvice, an online publication for seniors and caregivers, which weighed 100 factors from ...

• PBS chief to speak at UNCA commencement

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:41

  From Staff Reports PBS President and CEO Paula A. Kerger will be the featured speaker at UNC Asheville’s Commencement Ceremony, scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. May 11 on the University Quad.  As part of the ceremony, Kerger will receive the UNCA Cha...

• Henderson will still honor ICE detainers, new sheriff says

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:40

  From Staff Reports HENDERSONVILLE — A bill requiring sheriffs to hold defendants when requested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement should not affect operations in Henderson County, the Hendersonville Times-News reported on March 30. Henderson Sher...

• Chairman Candidate Forum for NCGOP planned June 1

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:39

  From Staff Reports SKYLAND — The Asheville Tea PAC is sponsoring an NCGOP Chairman Candidate Forum at 6:30 p.m. June 1 at the Skyland Fire Department. The moderator, Leo Phillips, is an attorney, member-at -arge for the NCGOP Executive Committee, form...

• Bird electric scooter firm to pay $10,000 fine to Asheville

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:37

  From Staff Reports A judge ruled on April 2 in Buncombe County Superior Court that California-based electric scooter company Bird Rides Inc. must pay a $10,000 fine after an unauthorized and massive placement of scooters in downtown Asheville l...

• Acting chancellor tells of WCU’s role as economic driver

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:32

  From Staff Reports Western Carolina University acting chancellor, Alison Morrison-Shetlar, reviewed her university’s role as an economic driver — and partner — for Western North Carolina’s economy during an April 5 breakfast meeting of ...

• Letters to the Editor: May 2019

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:28

  Remembering Frank Sinatra — 21 years after his passing  Hard to believe singer/actor/entertainer Frank Sinatra left us on May 14, 1998, leaving behind a multitude of classic performances from virtually every facet of  of the entertainmen...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: May 2019

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:25

  WNC air quality improves; let’s do even better We rejoice in the news that the air in Western North Carolina is “amazingly” cleaner than it was not only at a low point in the 1970s, when the area was besieged with...

• GOP’s REDMAP scheme? Truly evil

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:23

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet   I’m not going to say that REDMAP is wrong.  No, I’m going to say it’s evil. And I’m also going to say that Democrats wouldn’t do what REDMAP does. RDMAP slime is red. REDMAP (Redistrict...

• The Candid Conservative: An absence of malice

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:19

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”  —  Winston Churchill   The problem We live in a time of accelerating ma...

• The Advice Goddess: May 2018

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:15

  ‘Eye will always love you?’ Beware I’ve long been a “Shallow Hal,” attracted to women’s youth and physical beauty and less concerned with integrity. Not surprisingly, I keep getting into relationships with women who a...

• Biltmore Estate to host 6 summer concerts

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:08

  The Beach Boys to launch star-studded series From Staff Reports The Beach Boys, arguably America’s greatest rock band, will launch the 23rd annual Biltmore Concert Series this summer on July 25, according to Biltmore Es...

• Asheville’s Downtown After 5 series opens May 17

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:07

  From Staff Reports The 31st season of Asheville’s Downtown After 5 concert series will begin with the Eric Gales Band  from 5 to 9 p.m. May 17. As for Gales, a DA5 press release stated, “Hailed as a child prodigy and frequently compar...

• Hendersonville’s Music on Main concert series to begin June 7

  Created: Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:05

  From Staff Reports HENDERSONVILLE — “The summer season will get into full swing with the return of the popular Music on Main Street” Concert Series from 7 to 9 p.m. every Friday — June 7-Aug. 23 —  in the parking lot next to the ...

• UNCA announces graduate program scholarships and fall classes

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 23:37

  From Staff Reports UNC Asheville’s Master of Liberal Arts and Sciences is now enrolling for the fall 2019 semester, and applicants who apply by April 30 will be given priority consideration for scholarships. The scholarship program is new this year, th...

• Muslim official rips Daily Planet for publicizing an ‘Islamaphobe’

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 23:22

  From Staff Reports The chief spokesman for a major national Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, headquartered on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., emailed the Asheville Daily Planet on March 6, slamming the newspaper’s decision to cover and run a s...

• ‘Good to be here for my periodic drubbing,’ Mayfield tells CIBO

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 23:20

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com    A report on the progress (or lack thereof) on the I-26 Connector project that is to cross West Asheville and cost an estimated $950 million was presented by Julie Mayfield, a member of Asheville ...

• On 7-5 vote, A-B Tech OKs deal with county on sales tax debacle

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 23:18

  From Staff Reports The A-B Tech Board of Trustees on March 6 voted 7-5 to approve an agreement with Buncombe County that specifies how sales tax revenue intended for campus construction will be spent over the next eight years.  To date, $15 million...

• BCGOP chooses retired teacher as its new leader

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 23:18

  From Staff Reports The Buncombe County Republican party elected Jerry Green as its new leader on March 2, according to Asheville’s WLOS-TV New 13. “I want to work with the community, help others, bring people together,” Green told WLOS shortly aft...

• Antler Hill’s ‘Asheville Bandstand’ concert series to begin April 1

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 23:16

  From Staff Reports The Biltmore Estate recently unveiled the first part of its schedule for the 2019 “Asheville Bandstand” daily concert series, which starts April 1 and runs until November. The concerts feature performers using the gazebo — next ...