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• 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 ...

• Asheville shop named N.C.’s ‘most beautiful independent store’

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 16:36

  From Staff Reports Porter & Prince, a shop in Asheville’s historic Biltmore Village, recently was chosen by Architectural Digest as North Carolina’s “Most Beautiful Independent Store.” The shop was founded in 1996. The magazine praised Port...

• Letters to the editor: December 2018

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 16:30

  Reader’s threat of genocide against pot-users? Horrific  I am horrified at the suggestion in your paper to murder all cannabis users (in a letter to the editor from Richard D. Pope that appeared in September’s Daily Planet). I ag...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: December 2018

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 16:28

  Parents of infected students: Rethink immunization stance As of late November, The Asheville Waldorf School, a private school in West Asheville with one of the highest rates of religious exemption from vaccinations in North ...

• The Candid Conservative: Who maimed Asheville? (Part 1)

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 16:24

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.” — Tennessee Williams The Problem Don’t look now, but Asheville is limping.  From north to south and east to west, the...

• Lessons for Dems from recent elections

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 16:22

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet CHAPEL HILL  —  What did North Carolina Democrats learn from the elections earlier last month? A few lessons: 1. North Carolina Democrats learned the great advantages of recruiting good candidates...

• Liberalism: nutty or urgently needed?

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 16:20

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet   Florida’s governor went into a rant: “I won’t stand idly by while unethical liberals try to steal this election.” An old friend sent me an email.  She said she was raised “an evangelical...

• Playhouse ends Hendersonville run with a bang

  Created: Thursday, 06 December 2018 16:16

  Teatro delights with musical Broadway revue By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com HENDERSONVILLE — The male vocal quartet, Teatro, made its Western North Carolina debut during the final Music on the Rock produ...

• The Advice Goddess: November 2018

  Created: Thursday, 01 November 2018 23:21

  By AMY ALKON Special to the Daily Planet Q: My friends tease me, saying that I’m such an obnoxious jerk, but amazingly, everybody seems to love me. Somebody said it’s because I have charisma — like a rock star/movie star quality. Honestly, I don...

• Prof turns self in on ‘swamp’ sign theft

  Created: Thursday, 01 November 2018 22:57

  Accomplice still at large From Staff Reports  Amanda Wray, a UNC Asheville associate professor of English, was charged in early October with a misdemeanor following accusations that she stole a political sign. Mike Summey, treas...

• McHenry, Brown spar over leadership, health care

  Created: Thursday, 01 November 2018 22:53

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com In the race for the 10th Congressional District seat, U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-Gastonia, and his Democratic challenger David Wilson Brown clashed over issues in the Oct. 23 finale of the election debate se...

• Turkey frees Black Mtn. missionary facing life in prison

  Created: Thursday, 01 November 2018 22:52

  From Staff Reports President Donald Trump welcomed freed Black Mountain, N.C., pastor, Andrew Brunson at the White House on Oct. 13. In turn, in a meeting in the Oval Office, Brunson thanked the president for securing his release from a priso...

• A-B Tech tax used as ‘slush fund,’ official says

  Created: Thursday, 01 November 2018 22:51

  From Staff Reports A member of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners recently revealed that the money from a controversial sales tax is not going where commissioners said it would in 2011, WLOS-News 13 TV reported Oct. 15. County leaders...

• Data shows city subsidizing Asheville hotels, mayor says

  Created: Thursday, 01 November 2018 22:50

  From Staff Reports Mayor Esther Manheimer recently presented new financial figures that, she says, substantiate allegations long-voiced by others that the city’s  flourishing hotel industry, which has resulted in growing swarms of touris...

• Flatiron Bdg. conversion to boutique hotel? Possibility triggers concerns from tenants

  Created: Thursday, 01 November 2018 22:49

  From Staff Reports The future of downtown Asheville’s Flatiron Building, one of the city’s most recognizable structures as it has stood tall for 91 years along Battery Park Avenue, has its tenants worried. Developer Philip Woollcott has su...