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• The Daily Planet's Opinion: November 2018

  Created: Thursday, 01 November 2018 22:29

  People vs. bears? Time to let common sense prevail The issue of bears coming into contact with human beings seems to be increasingly in the spotlight in the Asheville area and we are pleased to see the outpouring...

• The Candid Conservative: Why aren’t progressives progressing?

  Created: Thursday, 01 November 2018 22:26

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” — Oscar Wilde The Problem Looking back, there’s little doubt that my generation’s pivot poi...

• Good news for New Bern? Sparks’ new novel

  Created: Thursday, 01 November 2018 22:24

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet CHAPEL HILL  — Some good news for New Bern September’s flooding from Hurricane Florence brought such bad news to New Bern and its neighboring cities, towns and communities. There is a little bit of g...

• Will the new Supreme Court be Trumpist?

  Created: Thursday, 01 November 2018 22:23

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet James Buchanan, as president, was a free-wheeling, iconoclastic, vacillating, white supremacist Northerner.  Yeah, a lot like Donald Trump. And he made one gigantic misjudgment about the Supreme Court ...

• ‘The game is afoot:’ FRP to offer ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’

  Created: Thursday, 01 November 2018 22:21

  From Staff Reports FLAT ROCK – “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” which will be featured this month on the Flat Rock Playhouse Mainstage, “promises audiences a thrilling, hilarious and nimble retelling of the classic crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan...

• 4 commissioners’ candidates joust during debate

  Created: Thursday, 01 November 2018 22:20

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com Four candidates squared off over two seats on the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners during a candidates debate hosted by the Council of Independent Business Owners early morning on Oct. 5 in UNC Asheville...

• ‘Disco’ tribute: It was ‘burn, baby, burn!’

  Created: Thursday, 01 November 2018 22:13

  Fiery show ‘burns that mother down’ By JOHN NORTHjohn@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com HENDERSONVILLE — For one weekend only, the pitch for downtown Hendersonville was “Boogie on down to Funkytown,” circa the late 197...

• ‘18 Xmas Jam set Dec. 7-8; lineup unveiled

  Created: Thursday, 01 November 2018 22:11

  From Staff Reports The Warren Hayes 2018 Christmas Jam will feature Phish bassist Mike Gordon and contemporary-jazz instrumentalist Marco Benevento; Dave Grohl and friends; and Gov’t Mule, among others, on Dec. 7-8 at the U.S. Cellular Center...

• ‘Lost Chord’ songs to be given salute

  Created: Thursday, 01 November 2018 22:11

  From Staff Reports The Lost Chord, an Asheville-based  Moody Blues tribute band, will perform at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 21 at Isis Music Hall in West Asheville. Doors open at 7 p.m. The concert, saluting the 50th anniversary of the release of the...

• 2 sheriff’s candidates square off for 1st time

  Created: Sunday, 07 October 2018 21:12

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   Two of the three candidates for sheriff of Buncombe County held their first debate over the issues and fielded questions during an early-morning meeting of the Council of Independent Business Owners on...

• 4 candidates for House seats take jabs in debate

  Created: Sunday, 07 October 2018 21:09

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com SWANNANOA — The four candidates for two seats in the General Assembly thrashed it out verbally during a debate Sept. 20 during a luncheon meeting of the Council of Independent Business Owners at the Land o...

• The Advice Goddess: October 2018

  Created: Sunday, 07 October 2018 21:05

  Flirtatious woman has swarm feelings I’ve been flirting with two guys all year. I feel a connection and chemistry with both, but neither’s asked me out yet. This weekend, I’m attending a going-away party of a grad student we all...

• Mission Health signs definitive agreement to be acquired by HCA

  Created: Sunday, 07 October 2018 21:03

  From Staff Reports Mission Health’s Board of Directors announced in Asheville on Aug. 31 that Mission Health and HCA Healthcare have entered into a definitive agreement for HCA to acquire Mission Health.  The agreement will be sent to ...

• Getting it right

  Created: Sunday, 07 October 2018 21:02

  Because of a reporting error, the Daily Planet incorrectly stated in a story about the Lake Lure Dirty Dancing Festival in September’s edition that Patrick Swayze’s wife Lisa gave author Sue Tabashnik a blue baseball cap that Patrick had worn. The st...

• Female bear with cubs euthanized after attacking woman, 75, at night

  Created: Sunday, 07 October 2018 21:00

  From Staff Reports SWANNANOA – A mother bear was killed by state workers after it attacked and injured a 75-year-old woman as the victim was walking her dog near her home in northeast Swannanoa at 10:30 p.m. Sept. 18. The state Wildlife Reso...

• Ben & Jerry’s chain opens ice cream shop in downtown Asheville

  Created: Sunday, 07 October 2018 20:59

  From Staff Reports  Ben & Jerry’s in late August opened its first ice cream scoop shop in downtown Asheville, at 19 Haywood St., next to the Urban Outfitters. Its opening marks the latest chain to move into the  relatively chai...

• World Equestrian Games? 500K people expected, but only 200K tickets sold; $1.5M lost; host still upbeat

  Created: Sunday, 07 October 2018 20:57

  From Staff Reports MILL SPRING – The 2018 World Equestrian Games, which originally was forecast to attract 500,000 people to the Tryon International Equestrian Center,  drew a little more than — unofficially — 200,000 people, organizers said S...

• UNCA named 7th best public liberal arts college in listing

  Created: Sunday, 07 October 2018 20:56

  From Staff Reports  UNC Asheville has once again garnered the No. 7 spot among public liberal arts universities in U.S. News and World Report’s new “2019 Best Colleges,” released online Sept. 10. The National Liberal Arts Colleges list of bot...

• Letters to the Editor: October 2018

  Created: Sunday, 07 October 2018 11:31

  From president to precedent... it could lead to 'unpresidented'  Trump, Trump, Trump 24/7! Let’s change the subject for a few minutes (or less).  From president to precedent here’s my take:  How about those New York M...

• The Candid Conservative: Assessing Asheville’s ‘cess’ factor

  Created: Sunday, 07 October 2018 11:27

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “We’ll raise up our glasses against evil forces. Singing whiskey for my men, beer for my horses.” — Willie Nelson The Problem I had some fun the other day. My wife and I were making our usual we...