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• Rockell Scott sizzles at jazz cabaret

  Created: Thursday, 04 September 2014 15:49

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com BLACK MOUNTAIN — Asheville jazz singer extraordinaire Rockell Scott turned The Beatles’ 1965 hit “Yesterday” inside out, taking it beyond rock, beyond jazz into the gospel realm, as she dazzl...

• Jane Bilello guest column: September 2014

  Created: Thursday, 04 September 2014 15:44

  Roy Cooper ripped for refusal to pursue lawsuits against Marriage Amendment By JANE BILELLO Special to the Daily Planet Asheville Tea Party Inc., does not get involved in social issues, per se. However, we do staunchly defend adherence to constitutiona...

• Ben Yoke: September 2014

  Created: Thursday, 04 September 2014 15:41

  Capitalism versus socialism (cont.) By BEN YOKE Special to the Daily Planet "So, my girl, you are saying that the whole capitalist socialist debate comes down to one of creativity over synergy?” The venerable John D. Rockefel...

• Letters to the Editor: September 2014

  Created: Thursday, 04 September 2014 15:34

  The heart of Asheville? Like cells of a caterpillar  Within the concept of “as above, so below,” or the macro equaling the micro, could Asheville be like the imaginal cell of the caterpillar, those specialized stem cells that are ...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: September 2014

  Created: Thursday, 04 September 2014 15:32

  UNCA’s new chief? Promising: Ponder will be a tough act to follow The naming of Dr. Mary K. Grant as chancellor of UNC Asheville, effective Jan. 5, holds tremendous promise for both the university ...

• Carl Mumpower/The Candid Conservative… The downhill run: The left’s suicidal race to power ....

  Created: Thursday, 04 September 2014 15:26

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.” — 2 Corinthians 11:15  The Problem ehind a façade of deficit funded prosperity, we are witnessing the incremental decons...

• D.G. Martin: Most important thing the legislature did?

  Created: Thursday, 04 September 2014 15:23

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet CHAPEL HILL — The most important thing the legislature did this year is what it did not do. Adjourn. Instead of adjourning and closing down as is customary shortly after the state’s budget has been revi...

• Cecil Bothwell/On the left: People not like us

  Created: Thursday, 04 September 2014 15:21

  By CECIL BOTHWELL Special to the Daily Planet I recently sent a snarky reply to an email thread concerning one of Asheville’s few downtown parks. For those familiar with the city, it was Pritchard, but the particular issues involved can be easily un...

• Lee Ballard: To overpower outlaws, cast your vote in November

  Created: Thursday, 04 September 2014 15:18

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet November 2, 2010 –  the day the voters of North Carlina turned the town over to outlaws. Of course, nobody knew they were outlaws on Election Day. We didn’t find that out until they took power. And...

• UNCA featured in Princeton Review’s 'The Best 379 Colleges'

  Created: Thursday, 07 August 2014 16:33

  UNC Asheville announced Aug. 5 that it is featured in the 2015 edition of The Princeton Review’s "The Best 379 Colleges," and also is ranked at No. 14 on the “Town-Gown Relations are Great” list that is part of the annual guidebook released today....

• Dems accused of giving ‘preferential treatment’

  Created: Thursday, 07 August 2014 16:15

  Clerk of court ‘propped up’ by his party, not held accountable, BCGOP charges From Staff Reports    The Buncombe County Republican Party took direct aim at Buncombe County Regi...

• Protesters slam Israel for ‘assault’

  Created: Thursday, 07 August 2014 16:11

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com A rally — held at midday July 25 in downtown Asheville calling for U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., to end her support of what CODEPINK protest leaders termed the “Israeli assault on Gaza” — was met with a...

• Is U.S. next for global ‘arsonists?’

  Created: Thursday, 07 August 2014 16:08

  From a peace-loving vision laid out by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in the early 1960s, the United States — tragically — has morphed into a nation that increasingly encourages international arsonists to ignite the flames of oppression and war abroad...

• Vitality of queens tied to bee colony survival

  Created: Thursday, 07 August 2014 16:04

  Second of two stories   By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com MILLS RIVER — Keeping a colony of honeybees healthy in today’s United States that too-often has pollinator-unfriendly expanses of land heavily laden with pesticides — more ...

• Challenger fires torrent of criticisms at sheriff

  Created: Thursday, 07 August 2014 14:22

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com LEICESTER — The Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office needs to keep its deputies focused on protecting homes and businesses instead of “riding around with the Highway Patrol” and writing traffic tickets, ac...

• Ben Yoke: August 2014

  Created: Thursday, 07 August 2014 14:16

  Ghostly conversations near Grove Park Inn, Part 2 On troubles in the Middle East By BEN YOKE Special to the Daily Planet It was very late Saturday night, July 12th, and another full moon bent...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: August 20124

  Created: Thursday, 07 August 2014 14:13

  Poet laureate discord: a tragedy?  McCrory takes the road ‘less traveled’ — and shouldn’t have  Gov. Pat McCrory did not make one of his better moves when he appointed ...

• D.G. Martin: Reading others’ views offers perspective

  Created: Thursday, 07 August 2014 14:11

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet CHAPEL HILL — “I don’t read the Washington Post. That is not where I get my ideas.” Many years ago when there were still lots of conservatives voting in Democratic primaries, a congressional candidat...

• Cecil Bothwell/On the left: A state of denial

  Created: Thursday, 07 August 2014 14:07

  By CECIL BOTHWELL Special to the Daily Planet   Governor Pat McCrory is doing his best to wreck Medicaid in North Carolina, with loads of help from State House Speaker Thom Tillis and the GOP majority in the General Assembly. Their refusal to acc...

• Lee Ballard: Imagining closed-door parties with GOP legislators

  Created: Thursday, 07 August 2014 14:04

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet During a high school reunion, several of us were talking over breakfast. Inevitably the conversation turned to politics. One of the wives laughingly told how her husband was a fanatic Republican, a GOP cash cow...