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• The Advice Goddess: For whom the wind chimes toll

  Created: Saturday, 11 October 2014 16:07

  By AMY ALKON This girl I’m dating is truly great -- except for how she is into astrology, buys me crystals to improve my “energy” and keeps sitting me down for tarot card readings. As we get more serious, I feel like telling her I don’t believe i...

• The Moffitt-Turner overdrive fires up

  Created: Saturday, 11 October 2014 16:04

  From Staff Reports ENKA — The sparks flew — at least a little — when state Rep. Tim Moffitt, R-Arden, and Brian Turner, his Democratic challenger for the District 116 seat, finally met face to face during a voter forum Aug. 29 at A-B Tech’s Hayne...

• Sheriff’s, D.A. candidates clash

  Created: Saturday, 11 October 2014 16:03

  From Staff Reports Candidates for Buncombe County sheriff and district attorney squared off for the first time during a Sept. 25 voter forum at the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce.  The forum was organized by the League of Women Voters of Ashevi...

• Ghostly Conversations near the Grove Park Inn, Part 3: On an optimum human population

  Created: Saturday, 11 October 2014 16:00

  By BEN YOKE Special to the Daily Planet It was a windy and cloudy night at the Inn, and the Ghost of John D. Rockefeller, monopolist, union buster, eugenicist, racist, and arguably the richest man in history had in the afterlife apparently acquired a fa...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: October 2014

  Created: Saturday, 11 October 2014 15:55

  Downtown buskers? A treasure We are pleased that Asheville’s Public Safety Committee recognizes local buskers “as an irreplaceable public good.” The aforementioned assessment was voiced during a presentation to the committee in late...

• Letters to the Editor: October 2014

  Created: Saturday, 11 October 2014 15:45

  A note to our letter-writers The Daily Planet will not be accepting any more letters to the editor regarding the upcoming election — until after the election — to avoid last-minute accusations that cannot be countered by the candidates.   Fr...

• The Candid Conservative: Mediocrity does not deserve an ‘A’

  Created: Saturday, 11 October 2014 15:41

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”  — Theodore Roosevelt The Problem Buncombe officials are failing in their charge to academically prepare our c...

• D.G. Martin: Scotland connected N.C. to modern world

  Created: Saturday, 11 October 2014 15:39

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet CHAPEL HILL — Did North Carolinians have a stake in the outcome of last month’s referendum in Scotland? Maybe not the same kind of stake the residents of Scotland had, but our ties to that land are so clos...

• On the left: Deserving neither

  Created: Saturday, 11 October 2014 15:36

  By CECIL BOTHWELL Special to the Daily Planet The attack on the Twin Towers was a shocking event to a country which hadn’t experienced foreign invasion since Pearl Harbor, but, as I and some others argued at the time, allowing politicians to use that ...

• Reasons examined for voting for Republicans in ’14

  Created: Saturday, 11 October 2014 15:34

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet  Why would somebody vote for Republicans in 2014? This looks like a rhetorical question, where the intent is to make the reader think for a second before the writer gives his answer. A set-up question. T...

• A review: McCartney tribute show scores hit

  Created: Saturday, 11 October 2014 15:31

  By DAVE ROWE Special to the Daily Planet   A world premiere took place Sept. 27 in Asheville, but few people witnessed it. The show, “The Many Moods of McCartney,” highlighting the work — via classical music — of Sir Paul Mc...

• Topless rally stages march in handcuffs

  Created: Thursday, 04 September 2014 16:18

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com The fourth annual Go Topless rally on Aug. 24 featured roughly a dozen women who bared their breasts durng a gathering that drew several hundred, mostly admiring and camera-pointing male onlookers to downtown ...

• BCGOP challenges register of deeds

  Created: Thursday, 04 September 2014 16:09

  From Staff Reports The Buncombe County Republican Party on Aug. 5 filed a public records request through the Freedom of Information Act with Buncombe County government to obtain expense reports and travel records filed by Register of Deeds Drew Reising...

• Advice Goddess: September 2014

  Created: Thursday, 04 September 2014 16:04

  MP3’s a crowd? Q: I’ve been dating a girl for two months, and I go back and forth from thinking the relationship has legs to wanting to end it. I just had a birthday, and she got me a new iPod Touch with my name engraved on the back. I told...

• Mtn. Moral Monday speakers bash GOP ‘extremists’

  Created: Thursday, 04 September 2014 16:02

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   The Rev. William Barber said Aug. 4 in Asheville that North Carolina’s General Assembly and the governor’s office are occupied by too many “right-wing political extremists” who must be voted ou...

• ‘Memphis Belle’ memorial unveiled

  Created: Thursday, 04 September 2014 15:56

  From Staff Reports  A memorial monument to Col. Robert K. Morgan, an Asheville native son, was dedicated and unveiled Aug. 14 between City Hall and the County Courthouse in downtown Asheville. The ceremony, attended by family and dozens of well-wis...

• UNCA buys adjoining property for future campus expansion

  Created: Thursday, 04 September 2014 15:55

  The UNC Asheville Foundation announced Aug. 27 that it has purchased two parcels totaling 7 acres off Zillicoa Street in Asheville’s Montford community for $1.1 million. The parcels, purchased from Highland Park LLC, border two other tracts the foundat...

• Bothwell, Fryar each face a ‘parking gate’ furor

  Created: Thursday, 04 September 2014 15:54

  From Staff Reports They may come from polar opposite sides of the political spectrum but both Asheville City Councilman Cecil Bothwell and Buncombe County Commissioner Mike Frayer had to deal with the so-called “parking-gate” furor in August. Indeed...

• Ex-UNCA chancellor Ponder given Order of the Long Leaf Pine award

  Created: Thursday, 04 September 2014 15:52

  UNC Asheville’s former Chancellor Anne Ponder has been named to the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the highest civilian honor bestowed by the governor of North Carolina. The award, begun in 1963 and presented in recognition of extraordinary service to th...

• Grant named 7th chancellor of UNCA

  Created: Thursday, 04 September 2014 15:51

  CHAPEL HILL – Mary K. Grant, president of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts since 2002, has been elected chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Asheville by the Board of Governors of the 17-campus University of North Carolina.  ...