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• After $1.4M loss in ‘14 in Asheville, Moogfest to make move to Durham

  Created: Monday, 10 August 2015 00:15

  From Staff Reports   Moogfest, the multiday electronic music event that was launched four years ago in downtown Asheville by locally based Moog Music, will move to Durham for its next iteration, the firm announced in mid-July. The event was create...

• Hotel Indigo sold for $33M to Texas firm popoliccom/2015/05/7917966_g.jpg?w=645 st female police chief

  Created: Monday, 10 August 2015 00:14

  From Staff Reports Hotel Indigo Asheville Downtown recently was sold for about $33 million to Summit Hotel Properties Inc., according to the Austin-based company. The sale occurred on June 29, with the price listed, according to documents at the Bunco...

• ‘The Kite Runner’ to stay on Buncome reading list

  Created: Monday, 10 August 2015 00:09

  From Staff Reports  Following a complaint about the use of the book “The Kite Runner” in an honors English class at Reynolds High School, the Buncombe County school board — unanimously — voted July 2 to retain the novel on the school system�...

• Huckabee touts Christian values

  Created: Monday, 10 August 2015 00:08

  From Staff Reports HENDERSONVILLE — America needs to focus on energy and food independence, a powerful military that will command world respect and elect a president who will stand up for Christian values, Mike Huckabee, a Republican presidential ...

• Reform tax code, immigration rule, Ben Carson says

  Created: Monday, 10 August 2015 00:06

  From Staff Reports FLETCHER — The stock market will crash, making the Great Depression “look like a cakewalk,” if action is not taken soon to halt the looming economic collapse of the United States, Dr. Ben Carson, a Republican presidential  c...

• Jobs sought for public housing tenants

  Created: Monday, 10 August 2015 00:05

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com Members of the Council of Independent Business Owners were urged to offer  jobs to residents of Asheville’s public housing during a July 17 CIBO meeting at Chick-fil-A in North Asheville. The plea was ...

• The Daily Planet’s Opinion: August 2015

  Created: Monday, 10 August 2015 00:01

  Big pool of council choices touted What a wonderful situation it is for our community to have 16 candidates vying for only three seats on Asheville City Council. The large field of candidates is not unprecedented in Asheville�...

• Letters to the editor: August 2015

  Created: Sunday, 09 August 2015 23:58

  Mumpower termed ‘almost right,’ compared to Bothwell In the July 2015 issue (of the Daily Planet), Page A12, your staff reporter wrote (that) Carl Mumpower compared “lawmakers to drug-dealers, wife beaters and thieves and criticized other coun...

• The Candid Conservative: Vigorously losing our way

  Created: Sunday, 09 August 2015 23:53

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”  — George Orwell The Problem We live in a curious time where information is everywhere and yet truth grows rare.&n...

• ‘Buncombe Bob’ out-Trumped ‘The Donald’

  Created: Sunday, 09 August 2015 23:52

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet CHAPEL HILL —  Would North Carolinians ever vote to elect Donald Trump or somebody like him? We did once. When we did, we proved that North Carolinians, like voters across America, can be attracted t...

• N.C. GOP legislators corrupted by power

  Created: Sunday, 09 August 2015 23:49

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet “If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly.  But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice ...

• Militia mentality to suddenly post a guard for U.S. government

  Created: Sunday, 09 August 2015 23:37

  Can someone explain the logic — or lack thereof? 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 t...

• Staates’ rights and the Civil War ....

  Created: Sunday, 09 August 2015 23:30

  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...

• Sparks fly at ‘Oklahoma!’

  Created: Sunday, 09 August 2015 22:49

  “Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry  When I take you out in the surrey,  When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top!  Watch that fringe and see how it flutters  When I drive them high steppin’ strutters.&nbs...

• Are themed uniforms bad for baseball?

  Created: Sunday, 09 August 2015 22:45

  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...

• UNCA named a 'Best Buy' by Fiske Guide

  Created: Thursday, 09 July 2015 16:35

  Environmental Studies Program Earns Kudos UNC Asheville has been named to the very select list of “Best Buy” universities in Fiske Guide to Colleges 2016, which was released for sale on July 1. The guide, created by former New York Times&n...

• City Council candidate charged with shoe-throwing

  Created: Thursday, 09 July 2015 16:30

  From Staff Reports Asheville City Council candidate Jonathan Wainscott was charged June 19 with assault by shoving and throwing firecrackers and shoes, less than three weeks after he was charged with violating a domestic violence protective order. Wains...

• Conservative activist Mumpower aims to bring diversity to council

  Created: Thursday, 09 July 2015 16:27

  From Staff Reports Conservative pundit and activist Carl Mumpower announced June 10 that he will seek one of three Asheville City Council seats in this year’s election. Mumpower served on the city’s governing body from 2001 to 2009. Mumpower touted ...

• Vandals target Vance Monument

  Created: Thursday, 09 July 2015 16:23

  Former NAACP chief defends Confederate flag  From Staff Reports Shortly after the slogan “Black Lives Matter” was spray-painted on a Confederate monument in downtown Asheville, H.K. Edgerton stood with a Confederate fla...

• The Advice Goddess: July 2015

  Created: Thursday, 09 July 2015 16:19

  Rise and spine My fiance is good friends with his ex-girlfriend from college. (We’re all in our 30s.) She isn’t a romantic threat, but she’s become a source of stress. Long before I met my boyfriend, they began hanging out at a local bar ...