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• Raises, large bonuses under Greene prompt leaders to address breach in public trust

  Created: Wednesday, 01 November 2017 21:48

  Officials admit they lack signed incentive deal for ex-county manager From Staff Reports  Under new County Manager Mandy Stone, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners has had a lot of housekeeping to...

• The Advice Goddess: November 2017

  Created: Wednesday, 01 November 2017 21:42

  Pay pal? Q: An older male friend keeps paying for me -- buying me meals and clothes. Am I making a mistake in accepting? I’ve repeatedly made clear that I have no romantic interest in him. I’m a struggling artist, and he’s highly successful. W...

• Battle for 3 Asheville council seats, mayor’s job to be decided on Nov. 7 s jjob

  Created: Wednesday, 01 November 2017 21:33

  From Staff Reports  In addition to choosing Asheville’s mayor and three members of City Council, voters will cast ballots in the Nov. 7 municipal general election to show if they favor splitting the city into six districts. The mayoral candidates...

• Kapoor, Manheimer sweep to primary wins; Bothwell fails to make cut, blames Williams

  Created: Wednesday, 01 November 2017 21:31

  From Staff Reports  In an Oct. 10 primary, voters whittled the field to two of three mayoral candidates and six of 12 candidates for Asheville City Council to advance to the Nov. 7 general election.  Incumbent Mayor Esther Manheimer took a run...

• Buncombe DA unveils plan to address opioids

  Created: Wednesday, 01 November 2017 21:30

  From Staff Reports Buncombe County District Attorney Todd Williams announced a battle plan to fight the local opioid epidemic during an Oct. 3 press conference.  Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan and Asheville Police Chief Tammy Hooper were also i...

• UNCA provost named interim chancellor as search begins

  Created: Wednesday, 01 November 2017 21:29

  From Staff Reports UNC Asheville Provost Joe Urgo has been appointed to serve as interim chancellor upon Chancellor Mary K. Grant’s departure at the end of the year. The appointment was made by UNC President Margaret Spellings with the unanimous and e...

• Asheville rated No. 23 on list of U.S.’ ‘hottest hipster’ cities

  Created: Wednesday, 01 November 2017 21:23

  Asheville rated No. 23 on list of U.S.’ ‘hottest hipster’ cities From Staff Reports   A data collaboration released in early October from Realtor.com and the business review site Yelp titled, �...

• Letters to the Editor: November 2017

  Created: Wednesday, 01 November 2017 21:13

  Arrest record should not be basis for ‘disinvitation’ The Daily Planet reported that Ashley Thublin, the communications director for Asheville City Schools, defended the cancelation of a speaking engagement by Bree ...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: November 2017

  Created: Wednesday, 01 November 2017 21:10

  Forget ‘Hottest Hipster’ ranking; let’s be U.S.’ best city to make world better Asheville recently received what some have termed a lowly ranking of No. 32 in a listing of “The Hottest Hipster Markets in Ameri...

• The Candid Conservative: Sorry, guys —Hitler was a socialist, too

  Created: Wednesday, 01 November 2017 21:04

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “For fascism, the state is absolute, individuals and groups relative.” — Benito Mussolini The Problem Don’t look now, but the progressive-liberal-socialist movement is self-destructing. That’s ...

• A lost college still shines

  Created: Wednesday, 01 November 2017 21:02

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet CHAPEL HILL — What is North Carolina’s best-known and most influential college? It might be an institution that went out of business 60 years ago, Black Mountain College.  Still today, educators prai...

• As history flips itself, N.C. Dems, GOP in transition

  Created: Wednesday, 01 November 2017 21:00

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet Sometimes history repeats itself.  Sometimes history flips. Sometimes history does both. This is the story of two North Carolina political parties in two different times and how they governed.  It’...

• Developers triumph in legal battle against Asheville; 8-story hotel project to be built

  Created: Wednesday, 01 November 2017 20:59

  From Staff Reports Superior Court Judge William Coward in late October overturned Asheville City Council’s Jan. 24 decision to deny Parks Hospitality Group’s petition to build a 185-room Embassy Suites hotel in Asheville’s Central Business District...

• Asheville Jazz Orchestra clicks on all cylinders

  Created: Wednesday, 01 November 2017 20:56

  Guest vocalist Jesse Junior delights with soulful crooning By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   BLACK MOUNTAIN — The 20-piece Asheville Jazz Orchestra made musical sparks fly — and provided a few lau...

• Lionel Richie, Diana Ross given loving, skilled, high-energy salute

  Created: Wednesday, 01 November 2017 20:53

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   HENDERSONVILLE —It was definitely a case of “Endless Love” during a tribute show,  “The Music of Lionel Richie and Diana Ross,” which had many in the audience dancing at Flat Rock Playho...

• Spooky seance conjures dreams of Gothic Christmas

  Created: Wednesday, 01 November 2017 20:50

  By SHELLEY WRIGHT Special to the Daily Planet I have been fantasizing for a whole year now about putting one of the most amazing, wiry, fantastical looking candelabras I own into a most unusual and esoteric use: a seance!  I don’t know why this ...

• Governor tells of need to fight opioid crisis

  Created: Thursday, 05 October 2017 11:45

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   SWANNANOA — A key step in tackling the nation’s opioid-addiction epidemic is to ensure that as many people as possible have health insurance, Gov. Roy Cooper said during a 20-minute speech to the C...

• Mission-BCBSNC still not negotiating as contract termination looms Oct. 5

  Created: Thursday, 05 October 2017 11:08

  260K WNC customers with Blue Crosscould be socked with higher health care costs From Staff Reports  Mission Health and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina still were not talking to on...

• The Advice Goddess: October 2017

  Created: Thursday, 05 October 2017 10:59

  By AMY ALKON Special to the Daily Planet James and the Giant Leech Q:  I’ve been dating this girl for just over a month, and she never offers to pay for anything. I was okay with this in the beginning, as I saw it as a cour...

• Ex-county manager’s sister changes jobs, takes $30K pay cut after probe announced

  Created: Thursday, 05 October 2017 10:58

  From Staff Reports  The sister of former Buncombe County Manager Wanda Greene agreed to change her job title and to accept nearly $30,000 less in annual pay — a few days after a federal investigation of Greene and unnamed “others” was announ...