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Taylor Martin and band pack punch as ‘opener’
By JOHN NORTH
john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com
Todd Shaeffer, lead singer and chief songwriter for Americana-based newgrass band Railroad Earth,...
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By JOHN NORTH
john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com
After the political firestorm he has weathered since his recently aired interview with “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” Buncombe County conservative gadfly Don Yelton said Oct 25 that he is — and...
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By JOHN NORTH
john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com
Don Yelton resigned as a precinct chairman for the Buncombe County Republican Party — de facto removing himself from the party’s executive committee— less than 24 hours after being pressured by the count...
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By PETE KALINER
(Fri., Oct. 25, blog) —
After his appearance on Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” program Wednesday night, we really aren’t any closer to understanding why Don Yelton would go on the show when he knew he’d be mocked and mad...
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From Staff Reports
A-B Tech President Hank Dunn will leave the post Jan. 1 with a buyout of more than $100,000.
The school’s Board of Trustees announced Dunn’s impending departure on the night of Oct. 23, noting that he was not being terminated.
A ...
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From Staff Reports
Buncombe County Republican Party Chairman Henry Mitchell on Oct. 21 announced an official probe by the BCGOP into the recent actions of Buncombe County Register of Deeds Drew Reisingers acceptance of marriage license for same-sex...
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From Staff Reports
Buncombe County’s register of deeds is the first government official in the South to seek approval to grant same-sex marriage licenses since the U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act.
Drew Reisi...
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A shouting match erupted between challenger Jonathan Wainscott and Councilman Cecil Bothwell that ended an Oct. 18 forum for City Council candidates in West Asheville. Following is Wainscott’s subsequent statement on that dispute:
Dear Citizens,
“Fo...
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From Staff Reports
The issue of election for Asheville School Board members rather than having City Council continue to appoint them drew the support of three candidates running for council during a candidates forum Oct. 25 in Asheville’s Bil...
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From Staff Reports
WAYNESVILLE — The Asheville Tea Party on Oct. 12 held a Pisgah Inn Rally for Liberty to celebrate what it termed a “push back against this tyranny” in the reopening — after a forced closure by Blue Ridge Park Police — of the ...
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From Staff Reports
Asheville City Council on Oct. 22 unanimously approved a zoning change that will provide a green light for a $43 million plan for 209 apartments and retail and office space in the River Arts District..
The former Dave Steel prop...
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From Staff Reports
The City of Asheville’s form-based zoning and recent changes and amendments in the Unified Development Ordinance were explained to the Council of Independence Business Owners — and drew some criticism — during an Oct. 4 bre...
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By JOHN NORTH
john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com
UNC Asheville is crystal-clear in its mission — and the students and the local community are reaping the results, Anne Ponder, the school’s chancellor, said during an Oct. 23 luncheon meeting of Leadership...
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From Staff Reports
During a brief question-and-answer period following her address, UNC Asheville Chancellor Anne Ponder fielded a number of questions about property acquisition and competition from other schools moving into Asheville during an Oct...
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From Staff Reports
MARS HILL —America is not going bankrupt — “it is bankrupt” — and the nation is “on an economic death spiral” with $72 trillion in debt (and growing) in a situation that can only resolved by spending controls, taxin...
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Buncombe County conservative activist Don Yelton has become a lightning rod of controversy, following his recent appearance — with politically incorrect comments on race and other issues — on Comedy Central television’s “The Daily Show With Jon St...
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N.C. Republicans ripped for Don Yelton’s comments
The Republicans have done it again — once again our state is the subject of an embarrasing national news story.
Yet again, we have been featured on “The Da...
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By CARL MUMPOWER
A common comment from federal spending apologists is that the dollars represented are insignificant. Certainly $16 billion out of $3.7 trillion doesn’t represent a major cut in spending, but it is a beginning. Repeated debt ceiling rup...
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By D.G. MARTIN
CHAPEL HILL — President Barack Obama and Governor Pat McCrory are in the same box.
Criticized by their opponents for being radical and divisive, they are, at the same time, dismissed by partisans in their own political parties as too mo...
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By CECIL BOTHWELL
The dream of getting something for nothing has an unending allure, probably because most of us have worked pretty hard to get anything at all.
One of the things most of us gain along the way is the knowledge that there’s no such thin...
