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• Popular local film critic Ken Hanke dies at age 61

  Created: Saturday, 09 July 2016 13:57

  From Staff Reports Long-time Mountain Xpress film critic Ken Hanke died late June 28 at the age of 61. His popular movie review column was named “Cranky Hanke” — and, as a result, some who did not know him well called him “Cranky,” but his fri...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: July 2016

  Created: Saturday, 09 July 2016 13:54

  Let’s back a ‘signature bridge’ We enthusiastically back the idea of transforming the Bowen Bridge into a “signature bridge” as part of the I-240 improvements (using Alternative 4B) on the I-26 Connector through West Ashevil...

• The Candid Conservative: A corrupt culture of convenience

  Created: Saturday, 09 July 2016 13:50

  By DR. CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.” — Sydney J. Harris The problem Our culture is unraveling. Where it ends, no one knows. What we do know is the worl...

• Stray from party ticket? Vote for the devil?

  Created: Saturday, 09 July 2016 13:49

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet   CHAPEL HILL — “You would vote for the devil if he were a Democrat, wouldn’t you?” Thus begins an old story that makes fun of an old-time party-loyal, “yellow-dog” Democrat. His friend was t...

• Letters to the editor: July 2016

  Created: Saturday, 09 July 2016 13:44

  Trump, Hillary both called embarrassment to nation Trump’s railing against Hillary over Benghazi and her misuse of her server that contained classified information are indeed grounds for jailing her.  On the other ha...

• Supporting due process is not the same as arming ISIS

  Created: Saturday, 09 July 2016 13:42

  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. • The following was po...

• Toss out jerks doing bidding of super-rich

  Created: Saturday, 09 July 2016 13:40

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet "If I were a rich man….” The “if” clause here, as sung by Tevye the milkman (in “Fiddler on the Roof”), was his dream of wealth.  He’d have a big house with one long staircase leading nowh...

• With ‘The Music Man,’ FRP knows the territory

  Created: Saturday, 09 July 2016 13:37

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com FLAT ROCK — The Flat Rock Playhouse production of  Meredith Willson’s musical masterpiece, “The Music Man,” is a sheer delight, with riveting folksy choreography — and angelic, note-...

• Asheville Stars Ball bedazzles

  Created: Saturday, 09 July 2016 13:34

  From Staff Reports The Asheville Stars Ball featured a professional show by Blue Star Dancers, along with guest artists and live music on June 3-4 at the Expo Center at Crowne Plaza Hotel & Resort in West Asehville. The gala also included dance comp...

• ‘Possession amnesia’ or ‘oh, crap, what do I do now?’

  Created: Saturday, 09 July 2016 13:30

  By SHELLEY WRIGHT Special to the Daily Planet A couple of years ago, I ran across an article in the May 22, 2014 issue of Fate Magazine titled “Possession  Amnesia: Mysteries in Prophetic Phenomena?”  What makes that different from what...

• ‘Top Gun’ actress reports fending off home intruder

  Created: Saturday, 09 July 2016 13:27

  From Staff Reports   After actress Kelly McGillis was attacked in mid-June at her Henderson County home, she obtained a concealed-carry gun permit. McGillis, 58, is best-known for her leading role in 1986’s hit film “Top Gun,” in which she p...

• DeBruhl resigns; drops out of election

  Created: Monday, 06 June 2016 11:59

  From Staff Reports Miranda DeBruhl, who recently was in the center of a political tsunami with her Democratic foes who blamed her for wrecking an economic development deal with Deschutes Brewery (an assertion that she vigorously has disputed), announced ...

• I-26 Connector Alternative 4B chosen for route through W. AVL, downtown

  Created: Monday, 06 June 2016 11:56

  From Staff Reports Following a ringing endorsement by representatives of local environmental regulatory groups and other government agencies during a May 18 meeting in Asheville, Alternative 4B has been chosen for the new I-26 Connector to be built throu...

• The Advice Goddess: June 2016

  Created: Monday, 06 June 2016 11:51

  Irreconcilable indifferences Q:  My girlfriend of two years seems to be gradually moving me out of her life. Seeing her two or three times a week has dwindled into maybe once -- and no overnights. She’ll meet me at the movies and then ditch m...

• City’s RAD plan update unveiled, reviewed

  Created: Monday, 06 June 2016 11:44

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com An update on transformative plans for — and work being done in — the River Arts District was unveiled to the Council of Independent Business Owners on May 6 at Chick-fil-A restaurant in North Asheville.&nb...

• Horse-drawn carriage ban OK’d in Asheville, but sole operator given two years to wind down

  Created: Monday, 06 June 2016 11:43

  From Staff Reports  City Council voted 6-0 April 26 to enact a general ban of horse-drawn carriages on Asheville streets, effective May 30, except for one exception — Asheville’s lone horse-drawn carriage operator.  The vote banning horse-...

• EEOC accuses Mission of discrimination

  Created: Monday, 06 June 2016 11:41

  From Staff Reports  A complaint was filed April 28 by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Asheville’s Mission Hospital, accusing it of religious discrimination. Specifically, the EEOC is accusing the hospital of violating fed...

• Tow truck driver refuses service to woman for being Bernie backer

  Created: Monday, 06 June 2016 11:40

  From Staff Reports A woman with disabilities — stranded on the median along Interstate 26 in Asheville after a car accident on May 2 — was refused service by a tow truck driver because her vehicle had Democratric presidential candidate Ber...

• Letters to the editor: June 2016

  Created: Monday, 06 June 2016 11:33

  Let’s avoid Barcelona’s fate on short-term rentals I recently saw this sign in Barcelona, Spain: “The rent of holiday apartments in this neighbourhood destroys the local socio-cultural fabric and promotes speculation. ...

• The Daily Planet’s Opinion: June 2016

  Created: Monday, 06 June 2016 11:29

  To tow, or not to tow..... It is truly a sad state of affairs when a disabled woman, involved in a car accident in Asheville, is refused service by a tow truck driver — simply because of her political stance.  Specificall...