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Runda Alamour, a UNC Asheville senior, has been named a 2105 Newman Civic Fellow by the national Campus Compact network. A literature major who also is earning teaching certification, Alamour is one of only three North Carolina students among the 201 nati...
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From Staff Reports
Public spending over the next six years will total about $50 million for improvements — greenways, road rerouting and other infrastructure upgrades — in Asheville’s River Arts District, according to city officials.
What’...
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From Staff Reports
An indoor trampoline park — a facility with 60 to 70 trampolines — will open this summer to serve the Asheville area.
Two local families will be operating Launch Trampoline Park of Asheville, potentially in a large building off Gl...
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Eyes that light up a womb
I’m a 35-year-old guy who’s doing online dating and who’s against having kids for moral reasons. Don’t get me wrong; I love kids. I just don’t think we need any more people on this crowde...
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By JOHN NORTH
john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com
SWANNANOA — The United States must “stand with Israel,” U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, R-Highlands, told the Council of Independent Business Owners on March 12 at the Land of the Sky Shrine Club.
His spe...
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From Staff Reports
Asheville City Council accepted a $115,000 donation from Civil War re-enactors to repair the Vance Monument on March 10.
Widely referred to as the city’s most iconic landmark, the obelisk in the middle of downtown has been a g...
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From Staff Reports
Asheville has captured a spot on Monopoly, the world’s bestselling board game.
The city was voted into the Here & Now U.S. Edition of Monopoly, making it one of the 20 cities in the country to be featured as a property on ...
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From Staff Reports
The Buncombe County Republican Party recently elected Nathan West of Black Mountain to serve as its chairman.
West defeated J.B. Howard 78-38 to win the post during the BCGOP convention held March 14 in Ferguson Auditorium at As...
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From Staff Reports
Asheville City Council voted 7-0 on March 10 to ban the use of vapor-producing e-cigarettes from city buses, parks and greenways as well as in facilities such as the U.S. Cellular Center.
The proposed ban was part of the regular...
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From Staff Reports
Katuah Market, which opened in Biltmore Village in late 2013, closed its doors permanently on March 31.
The natural food market’s owner, John Swann, said he was forced out of business by high overhead and increased competition...
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Residents urged to act to cut trash processing
As a part of the new generation emerging, I hear time and time again that we’ve had everything handed to us — education, work, you name it— many believe it is ours for the taking.
But a future fr...
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Asheville was wise in recently passing an ordinance that bans the use of e-cigarettes in places where regular cigarette smoking is also banned.
While e-cigarettes use a mechanical heating element, battery or electronic circuit to heat and vaporize a liqu...
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By CARL MUMPOWER
Special to the Daily Planet
“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
The Problem
sheville is a slippery hotspot for normal people. Too many struggle to pay the bills, raise kids, secure a decent...
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By D.G. MARTIN
Special to the Daily Planet
CHAPEL HILL — Is my weekly column supposed to be about books or about politics?
I get this question sometimes from editors and readers. In fact, one newspaper editor stopped using my column about a year ago....
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By LEE BALLARD
Special to the Daily Planet
I have great respect for conservative Christians.
They live their faith every day. They obey Christ in providing for the poor. They’re generous with their time and money.
But they have a bad habit ...
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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 posted March 6:
n early January, the Democr...
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By PETE KALIINER
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 p...
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From Staff Reports
A report from consultants commissioned by the City of Asheville, unveiled March 24, offers a path forward for eliminating problems in the Asheville Police Department.
The report said the problems in the APD existed long before William...
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By JOHN NORTH
john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com
BLACK MOUNTAIN — Eric Clapton, arguably the greatest guitarist in the rock and blues music genres, turned 70 on March 30, and a pre-birthday tribute show featuring a collection of top Asheville-area musician...
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Asheville Star Trek Club weighs in on controversy
By JOHN NORTH
john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com
The decision by William Shatner (who played Capt. James T. Kirk) to skip the March 3 funeral of Leonard Nim...
