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• All are capable of radical evil, survivor says

  Created: Tuesday, 03 December 2013 16:10

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   One could learn how to avoid falling into the trap of radical evil through education, Holocaust survivor Walter Ziffer said during a Nov. 19 address in UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Auditorium. “We’r...

• Boomtown Asheville in the ‘20s? It was popping, panelists say

  Created: Tuesday, 03 December 2013 16:07

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   Boomtown Asheville of the 1920s was a fun place, known as “Little Chicago of the South” and boasting more Art Deco buildings than any city in the Southeast other than Miami Beach, Fla., Nan K. Chas...

• Firm drops Haywood Street hotel plan

  Created: Tuesday, 03 December 2013 16:05

  From Staff Reports  The abandoned garage across from the U.S. Cellular Center in downtown Asheville will remain, for the near-term, what Mayor Terry Bellamy described as an eyesore. On Nov. 22, McKibbon Hotel Group’s Vice President Wes Townson ...

• Bellamy to take break from politics

  Created: Tuesday, 03 December 2013 16:04

  From Staff Reports  Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy announced in late November that she will not run for Congress in 2014. The two-term mayor announced early she would not seek re-election, but would instead run against Patrick McHenry, R-Lake Jame...

• Pact could put brakes on Montreat College merger

  Created: Tuesday, 03 December 2013 16:03

  From Staff Reports   MONTREAT — The proposed merger between Montreat College and Point University may be on hold. In January, members of Montreat College, pressed with financial concerns, approached Dean Collins, president of Point University, t...

• Fryar gets seat (finally) at A-B Tech

  Created: Tuesday, 03 December 2013 16:01

  From Staff Reports   Buncombe County Commissioner Mike Fryar will finally get a seat at the table of AB Tech’s Board of Trustees this month. Fryar, who vehemently opposed the quarter-cent tax increase for the college, had been squeezed off the b...

• Mountain BizWorks laying off more workers

  Created: Tuesday, 03 December 2013 16:00

  From Staff Reports    Asheville’s Mountain BizWorks is demonstrating its understanding of the business world by right-sizing operations for its changing landscape. Zeroing in on its original mission, the program will be terminating business...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: The Manheimer steamroller

  Created: Tuesday, 03 December 2013 15:56

  Time to take Asheville where no city has ever gone   Congratulations to Esther Manheimer on her Nov. 5 landslide victory over former city risk manager John Miall. With over 70 percent of the vote, dar...

• Manheimer wins mayor’s job; turnout low

  Created: Tuesday, 03 December 2013 15:54

  Wisler finishes 1st in council race, along with incumbents Smith, Bothwell From Staff Reports    Vice Mayor Esther Manheimer won a decisive victory in the contest for mayor of the City of ...

• I-26 connector update presented

  Created: Tuesday, 03 December 2013 15:52

  From Staff Reports    An update on the Metropolitan Planning Organization, focusing on the proposed I-26 connector in West Asheville, was presented to the Council of Independent Business Owners during its Nov. 1 issues meeting. About 35 to 40 ...

• ‘Scariest man in America’ warns of newest threats

  Created: Tuesday, 03 December 2013 15:50

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   LAKE JUNALUSKA — For yet another year at Sensible Mountain Readiness Seminar III, William Forstchen was introduced to an audience of preppers as “the scariest man in America.” With a smile, Fors...

• Time to break up ‘the empire’ is now, theologian urges

  Created: Tuesday, 03 December 2013 15:48

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   It is time to break up “the empire,” theologian Matthew Fox said during an address at which he spoke for about an hour  — and fielded questions from the audience for another 15 minutes — o...

• Letters to the Editor: December 2013

  Created: Tuesday, 03 December 2013 15:35

  Jefferson proven correct in warning on central bank When the USA was born, the Founding Fathers deliberately did not create a central bank, with Thomas Jefferson even warning that a central bank is “more dangerous and...

• The Candid Conservative: Who’s persecuting whom?

  Created: Tuesday, 03 December 2013 15:28

  By CARL MUMPOWER The most persecuted religion in the world today is not the Muslim faith; it’s Christianity.  Some maltreatment is blatant – Saudi Arabia’s prohibition of Christian symbols, bibles and churches and murders of Christians in Iraq...

• Lessons from Disney World for Obamacare

  Created: Tuesday, 03 December 2013 15:27

  By D.G. MARTIN CHAPEL HILL — What does Disney World have to do with Obamacare? There is an answer, but you will have to read on a little bit to get there. First, there is this grandfather’s testimonial about a wonderful experience at Disney World la...

• On the left: Billy Graham, really?

  Created: Tuesday, 03 December 2013 15:24

  By CECIL BOTHWELL Following Billy Graham’s 95th birthday bash at Asheville’s Grove Park Inn, many observers deemed the guest list unfortunate, perhaps unrepresentative, of Graham’s career. Donald Trump? Sarah Palin? Some blamed son Franklin for th...

• American exceptionalism? We’re No. 11

  Created: Tuesday, 03 December 2013 15:22

  By LEE BALLARD For almost 100 years, especially after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, escaped slaves from the U.S. South fled to Canada, perhaps as many as 30,000 of them. In Canada, they were free. They could vote and own property. Canada never had ins...

• Yes, Dems, please stand by Obamacare

  Created: Tuesday, 03 December 2013 15:19

  By PETE KALINER There are so many fundamental problems with the Affordable Care Act, that I’ve long believed it is not designed to actually improve the insurance system in America, but to irreparably break it in order to usher in more direct government...

• Advice Goddess: Mouse ado about nothing

  Created: Tuesday, 03 December 2013 15:13

  I’ve tried to be open-minded, but I’ve decided that men are givers and women are takers. I study at my local coffeehouse. I am interested in this woman who comes in and often unplug my computer and offer to let her use the outlet. Two weeks ago, I dec...

• Sax-driven band: High-energy Fitz and the Tantrums unleash surreal neo-soul-pop mix

  Created: Tuesday, 03 December 2013 15:10

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   With its two top singers sounding — at times — like the late soul-music icons Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell (albeit with a 2013 flair), coupled with a smokin’ bass saxophone, the group ...