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By SHELLEY WRIGHT
Special to the Daily Planet
In my last column, I wrote about the first person I ever crossed over. She was a beautiful little blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl, about three or four years old and her name was Emily. I first came to know of ...
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Archaeologist Shelley Stone, who has been part of the excavations at the Morgantina site in Sicily for 40 years, will offer a free public lecture at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 16 in the Whitman Room at UNC Asheville’s Ramsey Library.
Stone will describe the l...
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‘The quirky creative characters who once defined the city are vanishing’
From Staff Reports
Asheville ranked No. 2 on a list — “The U.S. Cities That Are Gentrifying the Fastest” — featured in a Ja...
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From Staff Reports
Asheville City Council is revisiting a proposal to split the city into political districts — a move it is making after roughly six months following a tough fight that stopped a powerful state lawmaker from forcing the change on the c...
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Get off my yawn!
Q: I’m a 61-year-old guy who’s been married four times. I love the security and acceptance of marriage, but after several years, either my wife du jour or I will get bored, and we’ll agree to move on. Clearly, I like...
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From Staff Reports
The turnout for the Women’s March on Asheville in downtown on Jan. 21 surprised organizers, marchers and law enforcement officials.
The Asheville Police Department estimated the crowd at 7,000 mostly women, with a sizable representa...
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From Staff Reports
Nathan West announced on Jan. 23 that he will not seek re-election as chairman of the Buncombe County Republican Party.
He was elected on March 14, 2015 to lead the local party into the 2016 presidential election cycle, West noted in ...
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From Staff Reports
Gordon Smith will not seek re-election to Asheville City Council, he announced Feb. 24.
“It’s been an awesome privilege and responsibility” to serve on the city’s highest governing body, Smith, a Democrat who was first...
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From Staff Reports
Food trucks and a farmers market are among the temporary uses being considered this spring at the 2-acre city-owned Haywood Street site that is termed downtown Asheville’s “Pit of Despair” by some local critics.
The Haywoo...
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From Staff Reports
The recent unveiling of a proposal to fence in almost half of Pritchard Park — a busy downtown Asheville landmark — has raised concerns that the barrier will exclude the homeless and other frequent park-users.
The triangular-shape...
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From Staff Reports
Just Economics announced in early January a boost in its influential “living wage” for the Asheville area for 2017 to a new rate of $13 hourly for employees in the Asheville area not offered health insurance and $11.50 for those wh...
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By PETE KALINER
Special to the Daily Planet
Pete Kaliner is the host of a daily radio talk show on Asheville’s WWNC (570-AM) that airs from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. This column features posts from his daily blog.
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The following was po...
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Help from way up above needed to survive Trump
Let’s see now: Knows more about defeating ISIS yet nominates 4 retired generals for his cabinet.
Mistrusts the FBI and CIA. Knows a lot about hacking that nobody e...
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Gentrification poses threat to Asheville
Asheville won a dubious distinction in late January, when it was ranked No. 2 on a list of “The U.S. Cities That Are Gentrifying the Fastest,” which was published by Realtor.com.
It is, indeed, a downer...
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By CARL MUMPOWER
Special to the Daily Planet
“Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.”
— David LaChapelle
The Problem
A great philosopher was once asked, “What’s the most important thing to a human being?...
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By D.G, MARTIN
Special to the Daily Planet
CHAPEL HILL — What will our most recent former president be doing these next few weeks?
Barack Obama will be reading and encouraging us to join him. In the week before he left office, he talked to The Ne...
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By LEE BALLARD
Special to the Daily Planet
I watched the 1960 election returns in my parents’ living room. I had worked for Richard Nixon in the campaign and had even passed out brochures at my home precinct that morning.
As returns came in ...
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By JEFF MESSER
Special to the Daily Planet
Jeff Messer is the host of a daily radio talk show on Asheville’s WPEK (880-AM, The Revolution) that airs from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. This column features posts from his daily blog.
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The fo...
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2 big bands perform favorites that keep
ballroom dancers on their feet at Grove Park Inn By JOHN NORTH
john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com Big Band and Swing Weekend swung and swayed ...
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By DAVE ROWE
Special to the Daily Planet
Jazz at Pack Memorial Library in downtown Asheville is now — on certain Saturday afternoons — available on more than just CDs.
A monthly "Live Jazz" series, featuring local jazz musicians, wi...
