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• Diverging diamond crossing on Airport Road? Good idea

  Created: Saturday, 06 February 2016 17:45

  We were skeptical, at first, but we think the so-called “diverging diamond” interchange design will prove to be an innovative and efficient way to handle the busy traffic crossing the Airport Road bridge over Interstate 26. The Airport Road interchan...

• Letters to the editor: February 2016

  Created: Saturday, 06 February 2016 17:40

  ‘Dump’ Trump? Where was National Review on Bush? Well, well... The most venerable right-wing magazine (National Review) devotes an ENTIRE ISSUE to getting rid of (Donald) Trump.  Hmmm. I am NOT a Trump supporter, but it would be the epitome of...

• The Candid Conservative: Who brought us to the dance?

  Created: Saturday, 06 February 2016 17:35

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”  ― C.S. Lewis   Rethinking the herd When it comes to religion, most of us follow the crowd. In Asheville...

• European history lessons for North Carolinians What does a new 800-page history of 20th Century Europe have to do with North Carolina politics of the 21st Century? First, a few words about the book itself, “Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in t

  Created: Saturday, 06 February 2016 17:33

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet CHAPEL HILL — What does a new 800-page history of 20th century Europe have to do with North Carolina politics of the 21st century?  First, a few words about the book itself, “Out of Ashes: A New Histo...

• Supreme Court rocks

  Created: Saturday, 06 February 2016 17:31

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet I’ve become a cheerleader for the United States Supreme Court.  No pompoms, just a big S on my white sweater. What has me in this mood?  A hint: In December, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled...

• Palin returns to help Trump crush Cruz

  Created: Saturday, 06 February 2016 17:28

  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. • The fo...

• Ashville pol calls for Indigenous People’s Day — unaware such a designation already exists

  Created: Saturday, 06 February 2016 17:24

  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...

• Big bands, dancers swing, sway to music in high style

  Created: Saturday, 06 February 2016 17:16

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com  Despite chilly weather, the 25th annual Big Band & Swing Dance Weekend proved to be a red-hot, “don’t-miss” event for those who treasure the big-band era of music and dance during the Jan. 16-1...

• AJO lights it up with Glenn Miller hits — and a dash of Tommy Dorsey

  Created: Saturday, 06 February 2016 17:14

  BLACK MOUNTAIN — The Asheville Jazz Orchestra offered an amtidote to the January post-holiday blues by performing a heat-generating potpourri of swing classics with original charts during a Jan. 8 concert at the White Horse music hall. The two-hour, tw...

• The Santa Claus experiment — Part 1

  Created: Saturday, 06 February 2016 17:11

  By SHELLEY WRIGHT Special to the Daily Planet Over Christmas, I had the opportunity to participate in an experiment that Joshua P. Warren, my friend and host of the popular radio show, “Speaking of Strange,” set up to create a tulpa of Santa Claus. ...

• Panthers fans feeling betrayed?

  Created: Saturday, 06 February 2016 17:04

  By TANK SPENCER Special to the Daily Planet Tank Spencer is the host of a weekly sports talk show, “The Sports Tank,” on Asheville’s News Radio WWNC (570-AM) that airs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays. Spencer also serves as WWNC’s news anchor...

• ‘Masterminds’ (filmed in Asheville) opening set

  Created: Friday, 05 February 2016 17:48

  From Staff Reports “Masterminds,” the movie that was filmed in Asheville and the surrounding area last year, has a new release date, Sept. 30, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Relativity Media, which holds the rights to the film, has been caught...

• The Aesthetic Advisor: Vintage items can energize classics

  Created: Friday, 05 February 2016 17:47

  By AMANDA SWAFFORD  Special to the Daily Planet The beginning of the year and the grey skies can often shadow us in a way that craves to be fresh and energised. Promises of fresh adventures for the year to come encourages us to take interest in ou...

• Messing joining cast of TV remake of ‘Dirty Dancing’

  Created: Friday, 05 February 2016 17:36

  From Staff Reports Debra Messing of “Will and Grave” will play Marjorie Houseman in the television remake of “Dirty Dancing,” according to news reports and a Messing Twitter post in mid-January. Marjorie is the mother of lead character Baby, to ...

• 100-plus jobs at Mission up in air

  Created: Tuesday, 05 January 2016 16:12

  From Staff Reports More than a hundred doctors and nurses at Mission Health in Asheville learned that their jobs could be in jeopardy after Mission indicated — just before Christmas — that it might sever ties with the company that employs them.  ...

• Cellist files a discrimination complaint against symphony

  Created: Tuesday, 05 January 2016 16:10

  From Staff Reports Months after she was baptized as a Seventh-Day Adventist, a professional South Carolina-based cellist has filed a lawsuit, claiming she later was terminated from her longtime job with the Asheville Symphony Orchestra because of her rel...

• The Advice Goddess: January 2016

  Created: Tuesday, 05 January 2016 16:05

  Going scold turkey I have a bad temper, and I’m trying to change. Now when I’m mad, I leave the room to compose myself. Recently, my boyfriend said something that really upset me. Taking a break allowed me to calmly explain that he’d hurt...

• UNCA earns high marks for student engagement

  Created: Tuesday, 05 January 2016 15:59

  From Staff Reports Students at UNC Asheville report a high degree of engagement and satisfaction, particularly when compared to peers, according to the results from the 2015 National Survey of Student Engagement. A total of 473 freshmen and seniors compl...

• Getting It Right: January 2016

  Created: Tuesday, 05 January 2016 15:52

  Due to a production error, a headline on Lee Ballard’s column in December’s Daily Planet omitted a key word. The headline should have said: “Most politically correct group? Far-right Republicans.” • Due to a production error, the editorial in ...

• 3 new council members sworn in

  Created: Tuesday, 05 January 2016 13:43

  Gwen Wisler unanimously elected vice mayor From Staff Reports The winners of November’s Asheville councilmanic election were sworn in on Dec. 1 at City Hall in a short-but-festive ceremony.  Sworn-in were Brian Haynes, J...