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• All-Star luncheon to feature Hal McCoy as keynote speaker

  Created: Saturday, 06 June 2015 20:13

  From Staff Reports  The Asheville Tourists will feature National Baseball Hall of Fame Sportswriter Hal McCoy as the keynote speaker for the South Atlantic League All-Star gameday luncheon at noon June 23 at DoubleTree by Hilton Asheville-Biltmore. ...

• Horoscope, June 2015

  Created: Saturday, 06 June 2015 20:08

  By HAZEL HOPPER Special to the Daily Planet Aries: June will be a VERY positive month for you, Aries. Any crazy idea you may have will stand a good chance at success this month. Your ruling planet, Mars, will be occupying a favorable position this mon...

• Economy fairly good, pundits say

  Created: Monday, 11 May 2015 16:03

  Asheville metro? Red-hot, nearly double U.S. recovery By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   Despite the weakest recovery following a recession in more than a century, the United States economy is in p...

• Republicans urged to pitch in now to get conservatives elected in ‘16

  Created: Monday, 11 May 2015 15:59

  From Staff Reports   The 2016 election for president and U.S. Congress ranks among the most important in history, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., told about 175 Republicans April 18 at Renaissance Asheville Hotel downtown. Burr, the keynote spea...

• The Advice Goddess: May 2015

  Created: Monday, 11 May 2015 15:52

  Eat, pray you’ll shut up, love By AMY ALKON Special to the Daily Planet I’ve always been a feelings stuffer, but I’ve been reading about vulnerability creating intimacy, blah, blah, blah, so I’m trying to be an open b...

• UNCA adding women’s golf in 2016-17

  Created: Monday, 11 May 2015 15:50

  Director of Athletics Janet R. Cone announced on May 11 that UNC Asheville will add women’s golf in the 2016-17 academic year and will compete as a member of the Big South Conference. The announcement came as part of the Our Turn to Play Luncheon in the...

• No tax boost foreseen in county budget

  Created: Monday, 11 May 2015 15:47

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com ENKA — The proposed Buncombe County budget for the next fiscal year is balanced with no planned tax increase, County Manager Wanda Greene told the Council for Independent Business Owners on April 10. In her...

• LEAF weekend music fest aims to fill Bele Chere void

  Created: Monday, 11 May 2015 15:46

  From Staff Reports  With the goals of satisfying locals and achieving longevity —  as well as replacing Bele Chere — a new weekend music festival will debut Aug. 1-2 in downtown Asheville. LEAF Community Arts, organizer of Lake Eden Arts F...

• New concert series to debut

  Created: Monday, 11 May 2015 15:45

  From Staff Reports  Sunday Music in the Park, a new outdoor concert series, will make its debut this summer with a slate of five free shows at Pack Square Park in downtown Asheville. Sponsored by the Asheville Downtown Association, the series will ...

• NC Progress holds rally, BCGOP counter-rally fizzles

  Created: Monday, 11 May 2015 15:43

  From Staff Reports  A rally by the liberal group Progress NC on April 7 in downtown Asheville prompted the Buncombe County Republican Party to call for a simultaneous counter-protest. However, no BCGOP  counter-protesters showed up at Progress...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: May 2015

  Created: Monday, 11 May 2015 15:38

  Put park on vacant city parcel Asheville City Council should be commended for having the wisdom to announce that it does not want a hotel to be built on its empty 0.8-acre parcel — valued at $2.6 million — at 68-76 Haywood St...

• Letters to the editor: May 2015

  Created: Monday, 11 May 2015 15:34

  Events involving Morgan monument called troubling Everybody must live somewhere.  But on 4/25, Asheville Citizen-Times readers Jacobs and Kyle emphatically pointed out it shouldn’t be North Carolina, and especially Asheville. When I shared many A...

• The Candid Conservative: Feminist femme fatales....

  Created: Monday, 11 May 2015 15:30

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “Women hold up half the sky.” — Mao Zedong   The Problem We live in a time when the very real potential of “normal” is being shanghaied by snake-oil salesmen.  Mass marketing the Co...

• Where have all the heroes gone?

  Created: Monday, 11 May 2015 15:28

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet CHAPEL HILL — “Were you a part of the Army that made the Indians leave their homes?”  David, my five-year-old grandson, had been learning about American Indians in his preschool. He knew that I h...

• Shame on NRA for gun law hijinks!

  Created: Monday, 11 May 2015 15:26

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” — Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution •...

• Councilman’s call to disarm police was just a joke?

  Created: Monday, 11 May 2015 15:20

  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...

• Elvis salute leaves ‘em ‘all shook up’

  Created: Monday, 11 May 2015 15:16

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com  FLAT ROCK — Donny Edwards, who performed “An Authentic Heart & Soul Tribute to ‘The King’” (Elvis Presley), proved to be “just a hunk, a hunk of burning love” at the sold-out ...

• Review: Four Seasons tribute band pumps new life into old hits

  Created: Monday, 11 May 2015 15:13

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com  HENDERSONVILLE — “Oh, What a Night,” indeed. On a gloomy and rainy Sunday night, the Garden State Guys, in their playful-yet-powerful tribute show to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, ...

• Carolina Panthers pull tough schedule

  Created: Monday, 11 May 2015 15:11

  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 anch...

• Horoscope, May 2015

  Created: Monday, 11 May 2015 15:06

  By HAZEL HOPPER Special to the Daily Planet May 2015 Aries: Seek to strengthen your mental capacity in order to help your career prosper this month. Emotional issues will dominate over finance and career. Two eclipses in May will bring major tra...