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From Staff Reports
A chickenpox outbreak in Asheville — reported in late 2018 — officially has ended, according to the Buncombe County Health and Human Services department.
The outbreak was traced to Asheville Waldorf School (located in ...
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Asheville’s Harry M. Pierson was among the protesters who stood outside UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Hall immediately prior to Tamika Mallory’s Jan. 24 keynote address for UNCA’s celebration of Martin Luther King Week. Pierson, a form...
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Immigration battle puts nail in abortion rights movement
Immigration — and the anti-choice, Ortega/Chavez/Maduro “left” — has already destroyed the U.S. abortion rights movement, since there hasn’t been a majo...
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Effort lauded to safeguard WNC as Mission Health sale wraps up
This newspaper, along with many others individuals and groups in the area, was emphatically against the sale of Asheville-based nonprofit Mis...
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By LEE BALLARD
Special to the Daily Planet
I spent the last 25 years of my working life naming things. My team named hundreds of products and companies – from NationsBank to a paint color for an airline. We had a good run.
We never named a car. I nev...
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By CARL MUMPOWER
Special to the Daily Planet
“Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.”
— Tiffany Madison
The Problem
erhaps you’ve heard the sug...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
