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• Adam R. Smith, former Green Beret, to challenge Rep. Edwards in GOP primary

  Created: Monday, 20 October 2025 06:24

  From Staff Reports ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Billing himself as a “a warrior, not a Washington insider,”  Adam R. Smith, a U.S. Army Green Beret veteran, recently announced his candidacy for Republican nomination in the 11th Congressional District.&nb...

• Former Rep. Madison Cawthorn from WNC announces his run for Congress in Florida

  Created: Monday, 20 October 2025 06:22

  From Staff Reports  CAPE CORAL, Fla. — Former North Carolina GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn announced on Oct. 1 another bid for Congress, but this time for the state of Florida. “After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, I knew that there was really no ...

• Daylight saving time to end at 2 a.m. Nov. 2

  Created: Monday, 20 October 2025 06:22

  From Staff Reports Daylight saving time will revert to standard time on Nov. 2 — one day earlier than last year’s time change. When clocks reach 2 a.m. local time on Nov. 2, one’s clock should be set back one hour to 1 a.m.  While many devic...

• HCA/Mission Hospital chief throws jab after jab at AdventHealth spokesman during Q&A session

  Created: Monday, 20 October 2025 06:20

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Following a 20-minute presentation on AdventHealth’s hospital planned in Weaverville, a 30-minute question-and-answer session — featuring a tense verbal exchange between two local hospi...

• Presentation on Weaverville hospital makes verbal sparks fly between Mission/HCA, AdventHealth officials

  Created: Monday, 20 October 2025 06:17

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Two local health care executives engaged in a tense verbal exchange during a question-and-answer session that followed a presentation on a new hospital planned for the Weaverville area du...

• Boomers urged to flee violent Dem Party

  Created: Monday, 20 October 2025 06:14

  The (Baby) Boomers seem to be the most active in protesting the new MAGA presidency. What I think the Flower Children don’t understand is that the Democrats and the original civil rights/anti-war movement have been covertly taken over by the Marxist/Co...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: Bad Bunny? He’s about the worst pick NFL could make for its Super Bowl headliner For musical talent and good role model, dump BB for Michael Bublé

  Created: Monday, 20 October 2025 06:12

  The NFL — once again — fumbled big time in its choice of its halftime performer for Super Bowl 2026, with its idiotic selection of the performer Bad Bunny, who constantly interjects his hypocritical progressive political stances and anti-USA viewpoint...

• Kamala Harris says: Don’t blame me!

  Created: Monday, 20 October 2025 06:11

  By BILL PRESS Syndicated Columnist The Democratic Party needs a lot of things right now: new leadership, a lot more backbone, a compelling message and a detailed, determined, aggressive, united campaign to take back the House and Senate in 2026. The on...

• The Candid Conservative: Two things that will get you through

  Created: Monday, 20 October 2025 06:08

  “You will never always be motivated, so you must learn to be disciplined.”  — Shubham Shrivastava  • By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet Though it is popular to suggest otherwise, we do not live in bad times. Things – i...

• Kimmell enabled censorship

  Created: Monday, 20 October 2025 06:05

  By TED RALL Syndicated Columnist First they came for Jimmy Kimmel, but I didn’t say anything because I wasn’t ... a lameass? No.  In this Niemoller scenario, the deplatforming of the host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” comes at the end of the sl...

• The crudity of the obsessive-compulsive left? Examples endless

  Created: Monday, 20 October 2025 06:02

  By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON Syndicated Columnist President Donald Trump just visited the United Nations to offer a customary annual presidential address. Before he arrived, there were reports that UN staffers had joked about shutting down the escalator to c...

• Far-left Democrats ripped for violent words, actions, making them a hate threat

  Created: Monday, 20 October 2025 06:00

  BY ROGER BUCKNER Special to the Daily Planet Think about it... two assassination attempts on President Donald Trump — and Joe Biden calling for it.   If I am accurate, the far-left Democrats are saying it’s time to put a target on him (Trump)....

• Big Bad Voodoo Daddy to swing at opera house

  Created: Monday, 20 October 2025 05:59

  From Staff Reports  NEWBERRY, S.C. — The band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25 in the Newberry Opera House, 1201 McKibben Street, here. As for the group, a promotion stated, “For over three decades, Big Bad Vood...

• BonaFide Soul aims to rock Hendersonville on Oct. 16 in R&B series season finale

  Created: Monday, 20 October 2025 05:58

  From Staff Reports  HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. —  The band BonaFide Soul will perform from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Oct. 16 outdoors on downtown Hendersonville’s Main Street. between Allen and Caswell streets, in downtown Hendersonville, in the season f...

• Billy Joel tribute show to offer salute on Oct. 17 at Walhalla PAC

  Created: Monday, 20 October 2025 05:57

  From Staff Reports  WALHALLA, S.C. —  The Stranger: A Billy Joel Tribute will perform a musical salute to Billy Joel at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17 at the Walhalla Performing Arts Center, 101 E. North Broad St., here. Regarding the show, a promotion s...

• Warren Haynes’ Christmas Jam to return to Asheville on Dec. 13 — 1 year after Helene

  Created: Monday, 20 October 2025 05:56

  From Staff Reports ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The 33rd annual Warren Haynes Christmas Jam will be returning to Asheville on Dec. 13, Asheville television station WLOS (News 13) reported on Oct. 3 “In a Thursday, Oct. 2, post, the Warren Haynes Presents: The ...

• UNCA Athletics to receive $500K investment for tennis project

  Created: Sunday, 05 October 2025 23:09

  From Staff Reports ASHEVILLE, N.C. — UNC Asheville Athletics has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Buncombe County Tourism Authority through its Tourism Product Development Fund for a new on-campus tennis facility project,  a UNCA p...

• DOGE causing delays on FEMA cash, Asheville mayor says

  Created: Sunday, 05 October 2025 23:04

  From Staff Reports ASHEVILLE, N.C. — North Carolina Governor Josh Stein announced on Sept. 18 that “five counties are getting more than $86 million for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure with FEMA grants and reimbursements,” Asheville tel...

• Asheville City Council OKs expansion of Safe Shelter, increasing its bed capacity

  Created: Sunday, 05 October 2025 23:02

  From Staff Reports  ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Safe Shelter in West Asheville, “an organization helping people through the darkest times of their lives, can now assist more families,” Asheville television WLOS (News 13) reported on Sept. 19. While Saf...

• Asheville to begin its debris removal operations at the North Fork watershed

  Created: Sunday, 05 October 2025 22:57

  From Staff Reports  ASHEVILLE, N.C.  —The City of Asheville will begin storm debris removal operations in the waterways and roads of the North Fork Reservoir — located in Black Mountain — “beginning within the next few weeks,” the cit...