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• UNCA names its 8th chancellor

  Created: Wednesday, 06 June 2018 23:14

  From Staff Reports  The Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina System elected Dr. Nancy J. Cable as the new chancellor of UNC Asheville, effective Aug. 1, during a special session of the Board held June 1. The election came followin...

• Probe of Greene, son brings new findings

  Created: Wednesday, 06 June 2018 23:13

  From Staff Reports The Asheville Citizen-Times in May continued its own detective work in trying to uncover information underlying the current criminal investigation of former Buncombe County Manager Wanda Greene.  Federal authorities have instruct...

• Letters to the Editor: June 2018

  Created: Wednesday, 06 June 2018 23:05

  Trump accused of running U.S. like 'You Bet Your Life'   Why do I get the feeling President (Donald) Trump’s patting himself on his back as he conducts his presidency as if he were emceeing a high-stakes reality game show with American v...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: June 2018

  Created: Wednesday, 06 June 2018 23:02

  Vote to speed up I-240 widening deserves praise The group of local government officials who, on May 24, voted to tentatively back the idea of speeding up work on Interstate 240 in West Asheville, deserves a round of hig...

• The Candid Conservative: Exorcising one’s demons?

  Created: Wednesday, 06 June 2018 22:58

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.” — M. Scott Peck   The problem cott Peck was a rare man. Author of the greatest-selling pe...

• Who’s got the biggest house?

  Created: Wednesday, 06 June 2018 22:55

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet CHAPEL HILL  — Here is a newspaper headline from May: “A ‘palace’ in N.C.: One of the state’s largest homes is for sale.” Must be the Biltmore House in Asheville, I thought. Then I kept readin...

• ‘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...