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• Horoscope, June 2014

  Created: Thursday, 05 June 2014 09:59

  By MARYANNE MORRIS Special to the Daily Planet Please make these albums the themes for your life this month, everyone. And listen to the album I found in the stars for you! Aries (March 21st-April 19th)         Your album of th...

• UNCA’s zing, zang, zoom on a swingin’ afternoon

  Created: Thursday, 05 June 2014 09:49

  Channeling ‘Swoonatra:’ As in ‘Let me see what spring is — on Jupiter and Mars’ By JOHN NORTH  john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com The May 4 concert “Come Fly With Me,” featuring “favorite tunes” by the Rat Pack, proved to be a j...

• ‘Screaming Eagle of Soul’ soars in superb Pisgah Brewery show

  Created: Thursday, 05 June 2014 09:44

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com BLACK MOUNTAIN — Fueled by a lead singer with a flair for sincere-crackling-gruff vocals, turbocharged choreography and a bottomless bag of theatrics, Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires performed a 90-m...

• Disinvited governor shows up

  Created: Sunday, 04 May 2014 21:39

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory’s scheduled — and then canceled — appearance at the April 23 opening panel of Moogfest was widely criticized by pundits as a political fumble by the organizers, fo...

• City to crack the whip on graffiti

  Created: Sunday, 04 May 2014 21:34

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com Asheville City Council on April 22 approved a battle plan to spend up to $300, beginning July 1, to combat graffiti vandalism. The plan was approved 6-1, with Councilman Cecil Bothwell casting the negative vo...

• Advice Goddess: May 2014

  Created: Sunday, 04 May 2014 21:31

  All doc and no action  Q: I’ve been going to the same primary care doctor for a few years. I’m very attracted to him, and I believe he’s attracted to me, too. There’s always been a dynamic between us. I thought it was his...

• Faster growth predicted after 5 years of slow recovery

  Created: Sunday, 04 May 2014 21:29

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com Why is the United States still experiencing a slow economic recovery five years after the Great Recession was declared officially over by economists? The aforementioned question, raised at the beginning of th...

• Pack Place lease extended; clash continues

  Created: Sunday, 04 May 2014 21:28

  By LESLEE KULBA news@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com    The Pack Place Board of Trustees on April 9 agreed to accept an offer from Asheville City Council to extend Pack Place’s current lease for 60 days to allow more time to possibly work out prob...

• 95 names purged from voter rolls

  Created: Sunday, 04 May 2014 21:26

  By LESLEE KULBA news@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com  Ninety-five names were purged from the Buncombe County voter rolls in April. The 95 had survived a preliminary hearing questioning the legitimacy of 182 names. The Raleigh-based Voter Integrity Projec...

• Despite fumble, Asheville’s ‘Idol’ wins more raves

  Created: Sunday, 04 May 2014 21:25

  From Staff Reports  Despite dropping his microphone, Asheville rock singer Caleb Johnson recovered quickly and won raves for his April 23 performance of The Black Crowes’ “Sting Me” in television’s “American Idol” talent competition. Af...

• Terry Van Duyn selected to fill Nesbitt’s Senate seat

  Created: Sunday, 04 May 2014 21:23

  By LESLEE KULBA news@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   In the third round of balloting, activist and Democratic fundraiser Terry Van Duyn was elected to fill the unexpired term of state Senator Martin Nesbitt.  Nesbitt died March 8, a week after be...

• Gowdy airs ideas for GOP to win back presidency

  Created: Sunday, 04 May 2014 21:18

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com  For the Republican Party to win the presidency in 2016, it needs to improve its communications style, U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-South Carolina, told an enthused, somewhat rowdy Buncombe County GOP audience...

• 2 leaders stress long-term view

  Created: Sunday, 04 May 2014 21:15

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com  Addresses on “the state of the city” of Asheville and “the state of the county” of Buncombe emphasized dealing with challenges by planning for the long term during an April 23 Leadership Ashevill...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: May 2014

  Created: Sunday, 04 May 2014 21:12

  City, county leaders lauded for their multimodal approach While there often will be much to criticize about Asheville and Buncombe County projects, we feel some praise is in order for the current leaders of the two loca...

• Letters to the Editor: May 2014

  Created: Sunday, 04 May 2014 21:01

  For accountability to users, launch a regional authority I recently read that Asheville City Council is gearing up for another rate increase for water customers in the region (“Asheville considering water rate increases,” March 25, 201...

• The Candid Conservative: Feeling bad for a good reason

  Created: Sunday, 04 May 2014 20:55

  By CARL MUMPOWER America’s No. 1 addiction isn’t marijuana, food, sex or money. Those all run a distant second to the big daddy of dependencies – the need to feel good. Embracing that false trail to paradise is an Asheville fetish. For evidence one...

• On the left: What if the horse knows the way?

  Created: Sunday, 04 May 2014 20:51

  By CECIL BOTHWELL We are faced today with the imminent advent of autonomous automobiles, known less generically as GoogleCars. While there has been some gee-whiz reporting about the technology itself, I have searched in vain for serious discussion of wha...

• Long tradition of liberalism will prevail in N.C.

  Created: Sunday, 04 May 2014 20:47

  By LEE BALLARD I never called myself a “progressive.” It seems contrived by liberals to avoid being liberals. I’ve been a “moderate” in recent years because liberals push private issues as fiercely as right-wingers push theirs.   But...

• Horoscope, May 2014

  Created: Sunday, 04 May 2014 20:44

  By MARYANNE MORRIS   Aries (March 21st-April 19th)         Aries, it’s time to really stop stressing out! Relax and go watch a movie.   Taurus (April 20th-May 20th)  Happy birthday! Think about what you want ...

• ‘In the Moog: the machine within the ghost’

  Created: Sunday, 04 May 2014 20:39

  By LESLEE KULBA news@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com What passes for music these days! Kids just drag and drop random noise and call it a song. I no sooner came to the epiphany that I was a dinosaur in the music world, than Mike Adams, announced he wanted to m...