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• The Candid Conservative: Bunkum in Buncombe?

  Created: Thursday, 07 August 2014 13:56

  Local officials smiling all the way to the bank.... By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet   “Public servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.” — Mark Twain The Problem Buncombe County senior officials ar...

• Letters to the Editor: August 2014

  Created: Thursday, 07 August 2014 13:51

  Debunking the Big Lie: DeBruhl not a Tea Partier  I’m sure most people know by now that Nancy Waldrop (wife of soon to be ex-commissioner, Republican David King) was successful in securing the votes needed to run as an unafilliated ...

• Advice Goddess: August 2014

  Created: Thursday, 07 August 2014 13:45

      Cheat exhaustion Q: My girlfriend and I are mostly happy together, but we have this ongoing fight where she accuses me of wanting to cheat whenever I so much as glance at a woman she perceives to be my “type” (any woman roughly her ...

• ALO’s ‘South Pacific?’ A treasure

  Created: Thursday, 07 August 2014 13:41

  By BARRY PATE JR., M.D. Special to the Daily Planet Asheville Lyric Opera brought the classic production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” to Asheville on July 18 weekend — and to say that this ...

• ‘Oklahoma!’: Oh, what a beautiful musical

  Created: Thursday, 07 August 2014 13:36

    Cast excels, show rolls with surrey’s ‘2 bright sidelights winkin’ and blinkin’....’ By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com FRANKLIN — After seeing a spirited production of the magnificent musical “Oklahoma!” on J...

• UNCA Board of Trustees to Hold Special Meeting on July 7

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2014 21:35

  The Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Asheville will hold a special meeting at 4 p.m. July 7 in 117 Phillips Hall on the UNC Asheville campus. The purpose of the meeting is consideration of qualifications for appointment of an emplo...

• Moffitt-Turner overdrive: The fight is on

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2014 21:27

  From Staff Reports Democrat Brian Turner’s campaign has countered a recent charge by the Buncombe County Republican Party that 80 percent of Turner’s campaign donations are coming from outside the state House district he wants to represent. The situ...

• Overcome challenges, bee expert urges

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2014 21:24

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com MILLS RIVER — A talk on “Challenges for Today’s Beekeepers” was presented to area beekeepers by internationally known bee expert Jeff Pettis on June 17 at Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Exte...

• Honeybee: Canary in coal mine?

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2014 21:18

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com One of the the nation’s top “bee luminaries,” Jeff Pettis, was featured at a program geared for the general public — “Give Bees a Chance: The Pollination Puzzle” — on June 18 at the Unitarian Uni...

• Waldrop launches campaign against DeBruhl

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2014 21:16

  Nancy Waldrop, a retired Buncombe County schoolteacher and small-business owner, announced June 19 that she collected enough signatures on a petition to officially enter the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners race as an unaffiliated candidate against ...

• City, county unveil plans with no tax boosts

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2014 21:14

  From Staff Reports    ENKA — An overview of the annual fiscal 2014-15 then-proposed spending plans — with no tax increases — for the City of Asheville and Buncombe County were presented by the respective localities’ officials to the Co...

• News briefs: July 2014

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2014 21:10

  Montreat College selects its 8th president MONTREAT – Montreat College announced June 23 the selection of Paul Maurer, Ph.D., as its eighth president. The school’s Board of Trustees voted to select Maurer, 52, to lead Montreat College, beginning Jul...

• Ben Yoke: July 2014: Ghostly conversations near the Grove Park Inn

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2014 21:04

  On capitalism, socialism and ... architecture By BEN YOKE A Grove Park Inn employee, who I’ll call Jasper, claims to see ghosts, famous ones.  He was making the rounds on the hotel’s outside terraces on Friday, J...

• The Daily Planet’s Opinion, July 2014

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2014 21:00

  Let’s put the bite on taggers But is Asheville’s graffiti crackdown tough enough? Asheville City Council’s campaign to eradicate the city’s burgeoning downtown graffiti problem is a st...

• Letters to the Editor: July 2014

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2014 20:54

  Mumpower termed right, but for different reasons I read with amusement your (June’s Daily Planet) coverage of Mr. (Carl) Mumpower’s speech at the recent Asheville Tea Party rally. His accusation that President Obama is ...

• The Candid Conservative: Not so cheap women

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2014 20:49

  By CARL MUMPOWER “We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.”  — VICTOR HUGO, “Les Misérables” • Several w...

• D.G. Martin: The Republicans’ best choice for ‘16?

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2014 20:47

  By D.G. MARTIN CHAPEL HILL — Romney for president. Get used to the idea. Again. But, you say, Mitt Romney has made it clear that he is not interested in running again. He is a two-time loser, which makes him damaged property. And the far-right wing ...

• Cecil Bothwell/On the left: The smarter city

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2014 20:40

  By CECIL BOTHWELL If there is any underlying agreement between Tea Partiers on the right and Moral Mondayers on the left, it might be the idea that governments are failing us. Details and prescriptions for improvement vary, but the sense that our electe...

• Lee Ballard: Let’s go for a different kind of fiscal conservatism

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2014 20:38

  By LEE BALLARD In a recent fit of self-inventory, I was surprised to discover that I’m an economic — or fiscal — conservative. My family lives within our means, below the lifestyle we possibly could afford.  Our budget is balanced and we avoi...

• Advice Goddess: July 2014

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2014 20:17

  Carbon dating? I am a single 58-year-old woman with a one-year subscription to eHarmony. In the six months I’ve been on, only two men have contacted me. Of the dozen men I’ve reached out to, only one responded, and nothing came of it. I’m stum...