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From Staff Reports
Mary K. Grant was sworn in Sept. 19 as chancellor of UNC Asheville, North Carolina’s designated public liberal arts university.
Grant, who had previously served for 12 years as president of Massachusetts College of Liberal Art...
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From Staff Reports
An anonymous person or persons left a flower display — aka “flower bomb” — that was discovered early on the morning of Sept. 18 on the floor of an abandoned building with a tragic past at 39 Banks Ave. in downtown A...
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From Staff Reports
The City of Asheville’s top-ranking staff — as of late September — was reviewing an assistant city attorney’s emails to New Belgium Brewery, asking about employment opportunities.
Local news media revealed in mid-Septemb...
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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...
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Bernie Sanders’ popularity marks start of a movement
Bernie Sanders’ popular message is the reason for his dynamic rise in the polls. It’s not that the public is buying into the smear campaign against Hillary Clinton. It has nothing to do with...
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Asheville flower bomb? Bravo!
We say “bombs away” to the creative and artistic individual (or individuals) who, as of late September, had left behind three different so-called flower bombs around Asheville.
The latest was repo...
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By CARL MUMPOWER
Special to the Daily Planet
“Bullying is the sanctuary of the immature, the inadequate and the truest coward.”
The Problem
he heart of the second amendment isn’t about guns – it’s about the natural right to defend ...
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By D.G. MARTIN
Special to the Daily Planet
CHAPEL HILL — Ron Rash, Western Carolina professor and author of five previous novels including “Serena,” captures his beloved North Carolina mountains at their best.
And their worst.
In his new...
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By LEE BALLARD
Special to the Daily Planet
The world was coming unglued in the early ‘70s. Mighty America was all but begging the North Vietnamese for peace talks. Women’s liberation was actually happening. The law seemed to give more rights t...
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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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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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From Staff Reports
A primary will be held on Oct. 6 to narrow the field of 15 candidates to six in the nonpartisan race for seats on Asheville City Council.
The general election will be held Nov. 3, when voters will pick the top three candidates t...
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By JOHN NORTH
john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com
“Live at the USO,” a 70th anniversary musical tribute to the World War II era, scored a smash hit with a standing-room-only crowd on Sept. 11 in the upstairs lounge at Isis Restaurant and Music Hall ...
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A ‘very good year’ coming for Frank’s fans
A gala — “Mad Men” and Frank Sinatra Dinner and Musical Revue — was held Sept. 9 at Lex 18 Moonshine Bar and Restaurant, 18 Lexington Ave., Asheville.
The 50-s...
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UNC Asheville will celebrate the installation of seventh Chancellor Mary K. Grant with a week of events starting Sept. 14 and culminating on Sept. 19 with the Installation Ceremony and campus picnic. Events are free and open to the public.
Weeklong event...
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By JOHN NORTH
john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com
For the fifth consecutive year, a Go Topless rally was held Aug. 23 in downtown Asheville to raise awareness about the unfairness of laws and social stigmas against women baring their breasts in public. Goin...
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From Staff Reports
More than 3,500 people have signed an online petition — as of midday Aug. 25 — at www.change.org that calls for limits on the number of national chain and formula stores seeking to locate in downtown Asheville.
In addition, the ci...
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You Luddite my life
My boyfriend will text if he’s running late, but says texting “isn’t real communication.” He says that if I need to talk, I should call him. I get that anything serious should be discussed via phone. However, we...
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3 men vying for her commissioner's seat
From Staff Reports
Buncombe County Commissioner Holly Jones on Aug. 12 announced her plans to run for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor.
On the heels of Jones’ announcement, As...
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From Staff Reports
A United States flag had been flying atop a 190-foot-high construction crane in downtown Asheville for about a week, but someone without the authority to do so climbed up the crane on Aug 15 in the late afternoon — and replaced...
