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• Tibetan monks to lecture, offer guided meditation Oct. 21 at UNCA

  Created: Sunday, 09 October 2016 12:47

  From Staff Reports The Tibetan Monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery will give a public lecture and guided meditation Oct. 21 at UNC Asheville. These events are free and open to everyone. The lecture, "The Psychology of Enlightenment," will take pl...

• Trump rally rocks Asheville

  Created: Sunday, 09 October 2016 12:41

  From Staff Reports Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump packed his campaign rally with enthusiastic supporters Sept. 12 in downtown Asheville’s U.S. Cellular Center. Trump spoke in front of a full-house crowd of about 7,000 people, according t...

• Views clash over refugee resettlement in Buncombe

  Created: Sunday, 09 October 2016 12:39

  From Staff Reports A contingent of Asheville Tea Party members attended a meeting of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners on Sept. 20 “to lay out the legitimate concerns and stark facts regarding the security health, and financial risks of refu...

• The Advice Goddess: October 2016

  Created: Sunday, 09 October 2016 12:30

  Loaf, actually Q: I’m a 35-year-old woman, and my boyfriend of a year is 43. Sadly, my friends and family don’t like him. They think he’s “not good enough” for me. Their argument: He doesn’t have a full-time job with benefits (like me)...

• Subdivision law changes given overview

  Created: Sunday, 09 October 2016 12:29

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com Recent changes made to the Buncombe County subdivision ordinance were given an overview by Assistant County Manager Jon Creighton during the Sept. 9 meeting of the Council of Independent Business Owners at C...

• Avadim to add 551 jobs, build HQ in Buncombe

  Created: Sunday, 09 October 2016 12:27

  From Staff Reports BLACK MOUNTAIN — Avadim Technologies will add 551 jobs in Buncombe County while investing $25.4 million in capital over the next five years, Gov. Pat McCrory announced on Aug. 31. The Asheville life-science company will begin constr...

• Participation sags at Go Topless rally

  Created: Sunday, 09 October 2016 12:26

  From Staff Reports   About a half-dozen women — a decrease from past years — went topless for they termed gender equality during the sixth annual Go Topless Day rally in downtown Asheville on Aug. 28.  Participants said the event is inten...

• SoCon mulls whether to let tourney stay in Asheville

  Created: Sunday, 09 October 2016 12:25

  From Staff Reports   Southern Conference presidents and chancellors did not make a decision about the future of the league’s basketball tournament in Asheville during a conference call on Sept. 22. The league was expected to announce to either k...

• State plans wider I-26 in Skyland, Arden, Fletcher

  Created: Sunday, 09 October 2016 12:23

  From Staff Reports SKYLAND — The widening of Interstate 26 along the congested route from Ashevlle to Hendersonville cleared a major hurdle in mid-August, with some funding secured and construction scheduled to begin in 2020, according to local officia...

• Asheville Black Lives Matter stages a Blackout boycott

  Created: Sunday, 09 October 2016 12:22

  From Staff Reports   The Black Lives Matter Asheville group called for a “Blackout” — an economic boycott against white-owned businesses — in Asheville Sept. 26-27, but the event did not appear to trigger much interest.  As of Sept. 2...

• Letters to the editor: October 2016

  Created: Sunday, 09 October 2016 12:12

  Refugees being slipped in who oppose pro-choice? I think the IRC (International Rescue Committee) is slipping in refugees who will threaten our pro-choice principles, so (David) Gantt (chairman of the Buncombe County Board o...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: October 2016

  Created: Sunday, 09 October 2016 12:09

  County manager merits praise for giving up $34K  Buncombe County Manager Wanda Greene deserves praise for taking the high road by relinquishing an increase in benefits worth more than $34,000, explaining that the compensation, which had co...

• The Candid Conservative: Conservatives are the real free spirits, Part II

  Created: Sunday, 09 October 2016 12:02

  “Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.” —  Jesse Helms   By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet The Problem Last month we cov...

• The election will be over, not HB2

  Created: Sunday, 09 October 2016 12:01

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet   CHAPEL HILL — What do you hate more? The presidential election campaign? Or the furor over HB2? The good news is that one will be over in a few weeks. The bad news is that the other won’t. On No...

• Trump brings Mussolini to mind

  Created: Sunday, 09 October 2016 11:59

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet   Underfoot rubbed his eyes.  He had clicked over to the Republican convention during a commercial, but the TV picture wasn’t Cleveland – or 2016, for that matter. The outdoor crowd all wore bla...

• ‘Fashion from the Classics’ coming to Biltmore Estate

  Created: Sunday, 09 October 2016 11:54

  From Staff Reports A collection of classic literary works and the popular movies that brought them to life will be celebrated in “Designed for Drama: Fashion From the Classics,” Biltmore’s newest exhibition of award-winning costumes and objects fro...

• Tricks, treats and spooks and beasts

  Created: Sunday, 09 October 2016 11:51

  By SHELLEY WRIGHT Special to the Daily Planet I loved trick-or-treating. I still do. Most of the time, I dressed up as a witch. One year, my boyfriend’s mother helped me make a ghost costume out of white tulle.  I found the directions in one o...

• ‘Masterminds,’ filmed locally, opens — finally

  Created: Sunday, 09 October 2016 11:49

  From Staff Reports  The satirical action-comedy film “Masterminds,” which was shot in Western North Carolina, finally opened Sept. 30 at cinemas nationally. The movie was filmed in July and August 2014 in WNC, including downtown Asheville and i...

• Author of 'Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk' to speak at UNCA on Sept. 22

  Created: Thursday, 08 September 2016 10:41

  From Staff Reports Ben Fountain, author of "Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, which will be released this fall as a feature film, headlines the Visiting Writers Series at UNC Asheville with a free public talk on at 7 p.m. Sept. 22 in UNC Asheville�...

• Refugees threaten security, crowd told

  Created: Thursday, 08 September 2016 10:38

  From Staff Reports EAST FLAT ROCK — Refugees should be shown compassion, but only if security concerns are met first, 11th District U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows told a throng of more than 225 people during a town hall meeting Aug. 23 at Blue Ridge Community ...