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• Concert review: The Zombies thrill young, old with timeless songs

  Created: Sunday, 04 May 2014 20:35

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   The 1960s British Invasion group The Zombies turned up the musical heat on an unseasonably frigid (low 30s) and gusty spring evening with a mix of old and new songs in a celebration of the band’s 50-...

• Racial profiling blasted

  Created: Wednesday, 02 April 2014 12:05

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com Consumer racial profiling is a practice that is damaging to those who are targeted by it and it is not supported by the facts, Shaun Gabbidon said during an address on March 27 at UNC Asheville. Gabbidon, who...

• ‘My Little Pony’ backpack furor: who is to blame for the bullying?

  Created: Wednesday, 02 April 2014 12:00

  By LESLEE KULBA news@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   A nine-year-old Candler Elementary boy has had more than his 15 minutes of fame. According to the short version, Grayson Bruce was asked by administrators at Candler Elementary to leave his backpack...

• Advice Goddess: Save the wails….

  Created: Wednesday, 02 April 2014 11:55

  Are guys scared of politically active women? My boyfriend of two months just broke up with me over my support for animal rights, and I’ve generally had difficulty keeping boyfriends because of this. This boyfriend was bothered by two incidents. In the f...

• Lt. Gov. blasts ‘misinformation’ on N.C. legislature

  Created: Wednesday, 02 April 2014 11:43

  Noteworthy successes being obscured, business group told By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest cited what he said were some of the major accomplishments of recent General Assemb...

• Election officials move forward with 95 voter challenges Misinformation obscuring successes in Raleigh, Lt. Gov says lt cesses

  Created: Wednesday, 02 April 2014 11:41

  Following a challenge filed by the Asheville Tea Party and Voter Integrity Project, the Buncombe County Board of Elections on March 27 agreed to go ahead with 95 challenges to voter registrations. The board dismissed 86 of the 182 challenges the group fi...

• Magazine article rips UNCA as one of ‘least valuable’ colleges

  Created: Wednesday, 02 April 2014 11:39

  UNC Asheville, which is ranked among the top American universities in a number of polls, was upbraided March 26 in a magazine article that contends that it ranks as one of the 11 “least valuable colleges” in America. The article, headlined “These U...

• Fueled by Zeppelin, Caleb Johnson survives another round on TV’s ‘Idol’

  Created: Wednesday, 02 April 2014 11:36

  Fueled by his stellar March 26 performance of a truncated version of Led Zeppelin’s epic rocker “Dazed and Confused,” Asheville’s Caleb Johnson made it for yet another week on television’s “American Idol.” Johnson has yet to rank among the ...

• St. Paul and Broken Bones to be among DA5 highlights

  Created: Wednesday, 02 April 2014 11:36

  The Asheville Downtown Association recently announced the performers for the 2014 Downtown After 5 free street concerts, including the young retro-soul band St. Paul and the Broken Bones from Birmingham, Ala. The band, which has drawn raves on National P...

• I-26 connector plan backed

  Created: Wednesday, 02 April 2014 11:34

  By LESLEE KULBA news@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com In successive weeks, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners and Asheville City Council approved the signing of a joint resolution informing the state Department of Transportation they support Alternative...

• Moffitt-Turner meeting makes waves

  Created: Wednesday, 02 April 2014 11:32

  From Staff Reports  Politics is a world of words, and there is so much more to words than meets the eye. Brian Turner, who has announced he will run against state Representative Tim Moffitt, claimed Moffitt asked him to drop out of the race. That w...

• Montreat College goes ‘all in’ with $8M fundraiser

  Created: Wednesday, 02 April 2014 11:32

  From Staff Reports  Montreat College has announced an “All In” program for fundraising $8 million. Proceeds will go toward hiring a new president, renovating facilities, augmenting the school’s scholarship fund, paying off debt and diversifyin...

• The Daily Planet’s Opinion: April 2014

  Created: Wednesday, 02 April 2014 11:26

  To save soul of Asheville, don’t create technocracy As Asheville and surrounding Buncome County crank up their efforts to recruit — with a host of incentives — startup and high-tech firms and their well-paid emplo...

• Letters to the editor, April 2014

  Created: Wednesday, 02 April 2014 11:12

  Citizen-Times led attack on candidate, ATPAC says Yesterday (March 9), Asheville Tea PAC learned that Lewis Clay would be dropping out of the race for Buncombe County Commissioner - District 3. While Mr. Clay was not an Ash...

• The Candid Conservative: An alternative to ObamaCare’s intrusions

  Created: Wednesday, 02 April 2014 11:06

  By CARL MUMPOWER Medicare and out-of-control health care costs are a big part of America’s developing bankruptcy. Much of the mess can be traced to big brother’s built-in inefficiencies. Government’s number one priority will always been maintaining...

• A mountain populist to the very end

  Created: Wednesday, 02 April 2014 11:02

  By D.G. MARTIN CHAPEL HILL — When long-time legislator and lawyer Martin Nesbitt died March 6 at age 67, he was already on my mind for a column. The news of his stomach cancer followed quickly by his death shocked those who remembered his powerful pre...

• Concert review: Through the Thicke and the sin.....

  Created: Wednesday, 02 April 2014 10:59

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com  CHEROKEE — The Blurred Lines Tour, featuring Robin Thicke and his flashy rhythm-and-blues band, performed an hour-long set, and a 15-minute encore, that left the predominately female crowd on its feet ...

• Concert review: Ohio Players’ funk brings together black, white up crowd

  Created: Wednesday, 02 April 2014 10:57

  By DAVE ROWE Special to the Daily Planet Funk music from a durable source came to the U.S. Cellular Center in downtown Asheville on March 1. The Ohio Players, a nine-piece African-American band dating back to the early 1970s, played 90 minutes of its j...

• On the left: Justice delayed

  Created: Wednesday, 02 April 2014 10:54

  By CECIL BOTHWELL Along-accepted legal maxim, dating back at least to the Magna Carta, declares that justice must be timely.  The accused must have their day in court; a decision must be rendered as soon as facts have been considered; the terms sti...

• Conservatives cling to wrong side of history

  Created: Wednesday, 02 April 2014 10:52

  By LEE BALLARD The 19th Amendment, the one that gave women the right to vote, was passed by Congress in June 1919 and went out to the state legislatures for ratification.  Fourteen months later enough states had voted yes, and it became part of the ...