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• China, N.C. — Thucydides and Charlie Soong

  Created: Tuesday, 04 July 2017 09:56

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet CHAPEL HILL — During the past few days, the release of North Carolina native Graham Allison’s book, “Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?” and Allison’s visit to his hom...

• Ready for ‘daybreak’ in N.C.? Principles over politics

  Created: Tuesday, 04 July 2017 09:55

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet The morning sun has not yet risen in Raleigh, but the brightening sky gives us cause for hope, even belief, that it’s daybreak in North Carolina. The Great Darkness fell just before the 2010 election for t...

• Don Henley/Phil Collins salute leaves crowd begging for more k

  Created: Tuesday, 04 July 2017 09:50

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com HENDERSONVILLE —  The tribute concert, “The Music of Don Henley and Phil Collins,” proved to be a crowd-pleaser during the June 3 performance at Flat Rock Playhouse’s downtown Henders...

• Nick Cave & Bad Seeds? Dark, irreverent, fiery

  Created: Tuesday, 04 July 2017 09:48

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com The Australian rock band Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds  — blasting away with sometimes brooding and bleak songs that, at times, escalated into an electrifying din — cast its black magic at ...

• Bigfoot researchers receive more support than magical community

  Created: Tuesday, 04 July 2017 09:46

  By SHELLEY WRIGHT Special to the Daily Planet I have noticed an interesting phenomenon. As most of you know, not only do I straddle the world of the living and of the dead, I also straddle the scientific world of paranormal research and those of magic a...

• UNCA Africana Studies chair receives Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship; will travel to Ghana to collaborate with scholars on curriculum development

  Created: Friday, 02 June 2017 11:25

  From Staff Reports Agya Boakye-Boaten, chair and associate professor of Africana Studies at UNC Asheville, was awarded a fellowship by the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and managed by the Ins...

• Utility accused of running ‘dog and pony show’

  Created: Friday, 02 June 2017 11:19

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com Duke Energy was accused of launching a local joint energy task force that amounts to little more than “a dog and pony show” during a May 5 meeting of the Council of Independent Business Owners at UNC Ashev...

• Opponents of APD’s $1M request pack hearing; demand spending elsewhere

  Created: Friday, 02 June 2017 11:17

  From Staff Reports Asheville City Council chambers were filled to overflowing May 23 with a big and vocal crowd opposing additional funding for the hiring of 15 new police officers. A $1 million request, sought by Asheville Police Chief Tammy Hooper, wo...

• The Advice Goddess: June 2017

  Created: Friday, 02 June 2017 11:13

  Wedding his appetite By AMY ALKON Special to the Daily Planet Q: I have this disturbing pattern. I’ve dated three different guys, each of whom said he didn’t want to get married, wasn’t ready, whatever. But then, the next girl they me...

• ‘Dirty Dancing’ remake can’t hold a candle to the original

  Created: Friday, 02 June 2017 11:02

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com The small-screen remake of the 1987 sleeper mega-hit movie “Dirty Dancing,” which was filmed last summer in Western North Carolina and featured extras from the area, was telecast May 24 on ABC-TV and, whil...

• Mission’s Macon hospital won’t include labor, delivery services

  Created: Friday, 02 June 2017 10:59

  From Staff Reports FRANKLIN — In unveiling plans to build a new $43 million replacement community hospital with no labor and delivery services, Mission Health’s chief executive officer expressed his deep regrets to Macon County residents on April 28....

• Tribal council votes to impeach chief of Cherokee’s Eastern Band

  Created: Friday, 02 June 2017 10:58

  From Staff Reports CHEROKEE — After four days of testimony, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council voted 9-3 on May 25 to impeach Principal Chief Patrick Lambert. The action marked only the second time — since the early 1800s — that t...

• Spicer Greene Jewelers robbed at gunpoint by men on dirtbikes

  Created: Friday, 02 June 2017 10:56

  From Staff Reports In an unusual smash-and-grab crime, three suspects wearing motorcycle helmets and wielding a hammer and a handgun robbed Spicer Greene Jewelers on the afternoon of May 3, Asheville police reported. The suspects arrived and left on two...

• Wicked Weed to sell to Anheuser-Busch; backlash ensues; Funkatorium canceled

  Created: Friday, 02 June 2017 10:55

  From Staff Reports Anheuser-Busch InBev— a brewing giant, making its first U.S. craft brewery purchase of 2017 — announced on May 3 its acquisition of Asheville’s Wicked Weed Brewing. The acquisition prompted an outcry among Asheville craft beer e...

• Letters to the editor: June 2017

  Created: Friday, 02 June 2017 10:46

  Happy birthday (May 14) to the great Frank Sinatra As is my custom, at this time I take a few moments to honor the memory of singer/actor/director/entertainer Frank Sinatra who passed away 19 years ago on May 14, 1998. His talents in the ...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: June 2017

  Created: Friday, 02 June 2017 10:44

  Better solution needed than cutting maternity services Plans to eliminate labor and delivery services at Mission Health’s Angel Medical Center in Franklin and — possibly — cutting the same services at its Blue Ridge Re...

• The Candid Conservative: Stealing our kids

  Created: Friday, 02 June 2017 10:41

  “If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.” — Rebecca Manley Pippert • The Problem If you’re a graduate of a public-school system, odds are you’r...

• Dangers of the blame game highlighted

  Created: Friday, 02 June 2017 10:39

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet CHAPEL HILL — Reactions to the so-called repeal of HB2 show one reason why Democrats are already in trouble for the 2018 and 2020 elections. They had hoped this year would be a time of unity to mobilize oppo...

• People must act to put checks, balances on Trump

  Created: Friday, 02 June 2017 10:37

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet President Trump is not writing a fantasy novel, tweet by tweet.  What he writes is what he thinks.  And some of it is constitutionally scary.   One thing is clear: he doesn’t like to be told w...

• The Waymasters, Asheville natives, voted America’s favorite country gospel group

  Created: Friday, 02 June 2017 10:35

  Quartet’s national honors continue to accumulate From Staff Reports The Waymasters, Asheville natives and one of Christian country gospel music’s premier groups, recently added another national honor to its impressive run of recent accolades. The...