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• Mission, Blue Cross restart negotiations

  Created: Tuesday, 05 December 2017 01:09

  From Staff Reports  Mission Health kept its promise in October to terminate its contract with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, if terms the hospital system deemed profitable could not be reached.  Mission on July 5 had announced i...

• Ex-county manager probe triggers more disclosures: Economic development spending raises questions

  Created: Tuesday, 05 December 2017 01:06

  From Staff Reports  Economic development expenditures are now being brought into question as the Asheville Citizen-Times continues to spearhead a probe of why former Buncombe County Manager Wanda Greene may be under federal investigation. The lates...

• The Advice Goddess: December 2017

  Created: Tuesday, 05 December 2017 00:44

  Q: -- I’m a 35-year-old woman. I’m living with my boyfriend, who’s a freelance artist (talented but just getting started). We’ve been together for three years, and I am paying for pretty much everything. I don’t feel resentful. I feel like we’...

• Asheville referendum result is a ‘sham,’ law remains unchanged, Edwards says says, as he rips Asheville

  Created: Tuesday, 05 December 2017 00:41

  From Staff Reports  State Senator Chuck Edwards, R-Henderson, ridiculed Asheville’s Nov. 7 referendum vote, calling the result a “sham” the day after residents voted against electoral districts for City Council. “Despite the fact that they�...

• Manheimer re-elected Asheville’s mayor; Vapoor, Smith, Wisler win in council race Vappor Va

  Created: Tuesday, 05 December 2017 00:40

  From Staff Reports  Incumbent Esther Manheimer ran away with the victory in Asheville’s mayoral race in the general election on Nov. 7. With 81 percent of the vote, she defeated contender Martin Ramsey, who ran on a socialist platform with almost...

• Charges dropped against 4 who tried to remove Lee plaque

  Created: Tuesday, 05 December 2017 00:39

  From Staff Reports The Buncombe County District Attorney’s Office has agreed to dismiss charges against four persons accused of trying to remove a plaque honoring Confederate General Robert E. Lee.  The plaque, which also commemorates t...

• Biltmore Estate owner William Cecil dies at 89 Vanderbilt’s grandson preserved landmark, made it self-supporting

  Created: Tuesday, 05 December 2017 00:34

  Vanderbilt’s grandson preserved landmark, made it self-supporting  From Staff Reports William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil, owner of the Biltmore Estate, died Oct. 31 in his Asheville home at age 89.  He was credited as a champion of the estate...

• Bossa nova salute pays fitting tribute to Jobim’s catalog

  Created: Tuesday, 05 December 2017 00:31

  "Tall and tan and young and lovely, The girl from Ipanema goes walking and When she passes, each one she passes goes ‘ah’   “When she walks, she’s like a samba That swings so cool and sways so gentle that When she passes, each one she p...

• Ex-UN ambassador John Bolton to speak at Taylor dinner

  Created: Tuesday, 05 December 2017 00:29

  From Staff Reports John Bolton, the former United Nations ambassador, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s annual Charles Taylor Christmas Dinner at 7 p.m. Dec. 16 at the Crowne Plaze Resort Asheville at 1 Resort Drive in West Asheville. Also ap...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: December 2017

  Created: Tuesday, 05 December 2017 00:22

  William Cecil, wife Mimi leave lasting, lovely legacy We join the greater Asheville community in mourning the recent deaths of two shining stars — William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil and his wife Mary “Mimi” Ryan Cec...

• Letters to the Editor: December 2017

  Created: Tuesday, 05 December 2017 00:13

  Trump’s diversionary tactics a reminder of an R.E.M. son If Kim Jong-Un or President Trump decides to initiate WW III (aka “preventive strike”) to divert attention from the many investigations coming up as well as continuing allegations b...

• The Candid Conservative: Hey Asheville — you’re surrounded

  Created: Tuesday, 05 December 2017 00:09

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?” — 1 Corinthians 4:21 The Problem Asheville is not an easy place to be a conservative. In a city stuffed to the gizzard with ...

• Rewriting N.C. history?

  Created: Tuesday, 05 December 2017 00:07

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet CHAPEL HILL — Don’t worry about the monuments coming down.   There is more. People are rewriting our history. Some folks who oppose taking down Civil War monuments argue that such actions would destr...

• Robert E. Lee had regrets, unlike some in White House

  Created: Tuesday, 05 December 2017 00:06

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet Robert E. Lee never wrote his memoirs.  Of course, he only lived five years after the War.  But his papers seem to say that he didn’t want to revisit some of his life decisions.   You see, he ...

• Gladys Knight and friends put on a dazzling show

  Created: Tuesday, 05 December 2017 00:01

  Chugging along on that ‘Midnight Train to Georgia,' star-studded show raises funds to revamp school  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com     Gladys Knight’s Oct. 29 benefit concert at the ...

• I wasn’t there! It was my doppelganger!

  Created: Monday, 04 December 2017 23:57

  By SHELLEY WRIGHT Special to the Daily Planet Most people blame things they’ve done — and probably shouldn’t have — on their pets.  But what do you do when there is someone running around town who looks exactly like you, drives the same ...

• ‘Women of Woodstock’ soars on Jefferson Airplane hits

  Created: Monday, 04 December 2017 23:56

  HENDERSONVILLE — “August 1969: The Women of Woodstock” provided an interesting examination and salute to the outstanding female singers at the Woodstock Music Festival during a tribute show Oct. 27 at Flat Rock Playhouse’s downtown Hendersonville ...

• White Horse’s 9th anniversary gala sparkles

  Created: Monday, 04 December 2017 23:54

  BLACK MOUNTAIN  — The White Horse nightclub here celebrated its ninth anniversary with a musical show featuring co-owner Bob Hinkle, the Belfast Boys, B.J. Liederman and several other musical guests.  Roughly 100 or so people attended the pot...

• Annual gingerbread house viewing open after 3 p.m. Sundays-Thursdays at Grove Park Inn

  Created: Monday, 04 December 2017 23:52

  From Staff Reports The 25th annual National Gingerbread House Competition exhibit is open to the public through Jan. 4 at the Omni Grove Park Inn in North Asheville. Viewing times — for the public — are after 3 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays.The dis...

• Mission’s pact with Blue Cross ends; now what?

  Created: Wednesday, 01 November 2017 21:54

  From Staff Reports  They really did it. Industry analysts were not taking it too seriously. They had seen the bluff too many times before, and providers and insurers always came to a settlement by deadline. But on Oct. 5, Mission Health really did...