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• ‘England survived Oliver Cromwell... Dare we hope?’

  Created: Wednesday, 06 June 2018 22:53

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet Oliver Cromwell was an accident of history. So is Donald Trump. Cromwell was an obscure farmer.  Trump was a personality known to every American.  Different beginnings – but the same man inside. ...

• Sheriff gives update on crime situation in Buncombe

  Created: Wednesday, 06 June 2018 22:50

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com  Van Duncan, who has served as Buncombe County’s sheriff for more than 12 years and is not seeking re-election in November, spoke about the county’s law enforcement challenges in a presentation at the...

• ‘Bubblegum Pop’ show? Sweet!

  Created: Wednesday, 06 June 2018 22:44

  Vocalists ‘walkin on sunshine’ to fun songs   By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com  HENDERSONVILLE  — Flat Rock Playhouse’s “Bubblegum Pop” musical tribute on May 18 scored a hit with the...

• Bluegrass festival set June 7-9

  Created: Wednesday, 06 June 2018 22:43

  From Staff Reports CHEROKEE  — The three-day Cherokee Bluegrass Festival will begin at noon June 7 at Happy Holiday RV Village & Campground at 1553 Wolfetown Road at Cherokee. The music will continue until 10:30 each of the three evenings of ...

• Latin-rock band to open UNCA quad series on June 18

  Created: Wednesday, 06 June 2018 22:41

  From Staff Reports The annual Concerts on the Quad outdoor summer series will open with the Latin-rock fusion band Making Movies from 7 to 8:30 p.m. June 18 on the grassy quadrangle in the center of UNC Asheville’s campus. Admission to the four-concer...

• UNCA prof to receive Trailblazer award

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 15:28

  From Staff Reports UNC Asheville Professor of Political Science Dwight Mullen will be honored with a Trailblazer Award at the 2018 State of Black North Carolina Conference, during the May 10 award luncheon in the Benton Convention Center in Winston-Salem...

• Ex-county mgr., son indicted, plead not guilty; request jury trial

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 15:26

  From Staff Reports Former Buncombe County Manager Wanda Greene, who, upon her retirement last year was touted as one of the best administrators in North Carolina, could end up being sentenced to decades in prison after she and her son Michael, a former b...

• Lieutenant governor decries state’s political polarization

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 15:24

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   Never before has he seen more political polarization in North Carolina than now, state Lieutenant Gov. Dan Forest told the Buncombe County Republican Party during its annual Lincoln-Reagan Dinner on Ap...

• The Advice Goddess: May 2018

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 15:18

  For whom the cell tolls Q: I’m addicted to my phone -- Twitter, Instagram, news, texts… you name it. My girlfriend feels disrespected and unheard when I look at it while she’s talking, but I can’t seem to stop. Please help me ...

• White officer’s beating of black jaywalker on video continues to spark rage, changes

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 15:15

  From Staff Reports  Johnnie Jermaine Rush’s jaywalking and the resulting beating he received from Asheville police captured the minds and hearts of the residents of Asheville and Buncombe County throughout April. The incident occurred in Ashevill...

• I-26 plans tweaked, unveiled to the public

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 15:14

  From Staff Reports ARDEN — Recently revised plans for the widening of I-26 at Exit 44 (U.S. 25) in Fletcher and at Exit 49 (U.S. 64) in Hendersonville were addressed by North Carolina Department of Transportation officials at a public meeting April 16 ...

• Mission-HCA merger could give tax base 11% boost, city says

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 15:12

  From Staff Reports  The proposed acquisition of the Asheville-based nonprofit Mission Health by the Nashville, Tenn.-based for-profit HCA Healthcare could increase the city’s tax base by 11percent, interim City Manager Cathy Ball revealed at a Mar...

• Plaque honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee plaque vandalized (again)

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 15:11

  From Staff Reports   A downtown Asheville monument honoring Confederate General Robert E. Lee has been defaced — again. The bronze plaque depicting Lee on a horse, with an inscription below, is set in a granite stone a few yards from t...

• Anti-racist group accused of racism after calling police to remove woman

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 15:10

  From Staff Reports  BILTMORE FOREST — Sharon Smith, the educational director for Asheville Black Lives Matter, was arrested at — and forcibly removed from — a Racial Equity Institute training event March 16 at the Mountain Area Health Educatio...

• Man who punched cyclist sentenced to 3 days in jail

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 15:09

  From Staff Reports  Claude Donald Watson pled guilty to simple assault for punching a bicyclist in the face, according to Bunbombe County District Attorney Todd Williams.  On the afternoon of Sept. 27, Watson had been trailing a cyclist in a D...

• Man with AK-47 arrested at Biltmore Estate

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 15:08

  From Staff Reports  A man who Biltmore Company police say brought a stolen AK-47 rifle and more than two and a half pounds of marijuana onto Asheville’s Biltmore Estate entrance was arrested April 11 by the BC police unit. Torrey Lane Hodsden, 21...

• Sinatra died 20 years ago, but recordings of his exquisite vocals remain unsurpassed

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 15:07

  By HERB STARK Special to the Daily Planet I can't believe 20 years have gone by and it's time to remember Hoboken, New Jersey’s hometown son, Frank Sinatra who passed away on May 14, 1998. His legacy is first and foremost, his music. From “All Or N...

• Letters to the editor: May 2018

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 14:59

  ‘Fine-tuned’ administration needs to be 'fine-tuned' (again) f, as President (Donald) Trump says, “My administration is running like a fine-tuned machine,” how come there’s such a “yuuuge” turnover? It seems there are a lot of loose s...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: May 2018

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 14:55

  Simone makes triumphant entry into R&R Hall of Fame The late Tryon native Nina Simone richly deserved her April 14 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at its 33rd annual ceremony in Cleveland. Th...

• The Candid Conservative: Dads — Here’s 10 things to teach your kids

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 14:50

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” — Theodore Hesburgh   The problem No matter what the dark statistic – crime, drug abuse, early mortality...