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• Commentary: Modern libertarians can’t govern

  Created: Monday, 04 November 2013 13:15

    By LEE BALLARD My son mentioned in a 2008 phone call that he was “impressed with Ron Paul.”  I was stunned – too stunned to ask why, what or how much.  You see, this son is a lot smarter than I am – and more liberal. Until then...

• Commentary: It's time to 'burn the ship while it sinks'

  Created: Monday, 04 November 2013 13:13

  By ROBIN SHOEMAKER So while our country’s ship sinks under the weight of unsustainable debt, irresponsible spending and money-printing, I am thinking, “Why not burn the ship while it’s sinking?” Here are some ideas to get some fires started: Ele...

• Advice Goddess: Social ‘notworking’

  Created: Monday, 04 November 2013 13:07

  My 40-something younger brother has been “friending” my hot female friends on Facebook, women I have befriended in real life whom he’s never even met! I said nothing at first. Then, one of these women posted a photo of herself, and I commented on it...

• Horoscope, November 2013

  Created: Monday, 04 November 2013 13:05

  By MARYANNE MORRIS Special to the Daily Planet   Aries (March 21-April 19) Break out of your routines this month, Mars suggests that what your doing isn’t working.  Look for inspiring pursuits.   Taurus (April 20th-May 20th) Hug so...

• Review: British soulman sizzles

  Created: Monday, 04 November 2013 13:01

  James Hunter Six proves to be on edge of greatness By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com GREENVILLE, S.C. — With its tour manager capably substituting as its drummer for the first time (and with little time for preparation), the cra...

• REVIEW: Handbook for pickers termed ... invaluable

  Created: Monday, 04 November 2013 12:58

  By DAVE ROWE Special to the Daily Planet If you want to become a picker, this is invaluable. It’s a 36-page paperback called “Backpocket Bluegrass Song Book,” published recently by Wayne Erbsen, local musician, music...

• REVIEW: ‘Clean’ comedian David Coulier hits on all cylinders

  Created: Monday, 04 November 2013 12:55

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com FRANKLIN — Comedian David Coulier did it all — some wacky impressions, a dead-on Bullwinkle voice and even played some mean cowboy and blues harmonica — during his show on Oct. 5 at the Smoky Mountain Ce...

• Review: Real ‘Jersey Boys’?

  Created: Monday, 04 November 2013 12:49

  ‘Oh, What a Night:’ The Hit Men hit the spot, musically   By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com SPINDALE — Despite a two-hour power outage in the area that was resolved just before the show, The Hit Men — former members of...

• Free James Hunter Six performance Oct. 16 in Greenville, S.C.

  Created: Wednesday, 16 October 2013 15:03

  The James Hunter Six band decided late last night (Oct. 15) to do a FREE GIG TONIGHT (Oct. 16) at The Peace Center in Greenville, S.C. It will be held inside the Certus Loft event space that is part of the Peace Center. It's an intimate 500-person space i...

• Coal ash settlement explained, fuels ideas

  Created: Tuesday, 01 October 2013 15:19

  From Staff Reports The details of a tentative agreement that the state of North Carolina recently reached with Duke Energy Progress regarding coal ash pond pollution in Asheville and at several other sites across the state were reviewed and explained dur...

• Future economic development? Mayoral candidates’ visions vary

  Created: Tuesday, 01 October 2013 15:14

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com  Asheville’s three mayoral candidates expressed widely varying views on future economic development for the city during a Sept. 19 public campaign forum. Vice Mayor Esther Manheimer said she favors con...

• Asheville abuzz over becoming 1st Bee City USA

  Created: Tuesday, 01 October 2013 15:12

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com The importance of honeybees as pollinators — along with the need for human beings to enhance their foraging habitat — were emphasized during a Sept. 16 ceremony downtown to unveil a sign designating Ashevi...

• Mission Hospital development plans unveiled

  Created: Tuesday, 01 October 2013 15:03

  City official hears criticisms of possible three-laning of Charlotte Street  From Staff Reports  Ambitious development plans for Mission Hospital were unveiled by a hospital official during the Sept. 6 issues meeting of the Council of Indepe...

• Indians’ legacy helped make U.S. what it is, Comanche pundit says

  Created: Tuesday, 01 October 2013 15:01

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com The conteporary landscape of American Indian politics and culture were addressed and deconstructed by Paul Chaat Smith, a Comanche author, essayist and curator, during a midday talk Sept. 20 in the Highsmith U...

• Letters to the Editor: October 2013

  Created: Tuesday, 01 October 2013 14:59

  Think Bush was bad? Obama’s even worse G.W Bush’s government borrowed and spent more money than ALL of the Presidents that came before him — put together!   Barack Obama’s government, then borrowed and spent tw...

• Daily Planet’s Opinion, October 2013

  Created: Tuesday, 01 October 2013 14:57

  Occupy Asheville’s future? If revived, make changes Say it ain’t so, Joe. Alas,  the informal group that spearheaded Occupy Asheville disbanded the local movement on Sept. 14 in a ceremony at Wall Street Coffee Hou...

• The Candid Conservative: Reward the honest rich

  Created: Tuesday, 01 October 2013 14:50

  By CARL MUMPOWER Though America is suffering through harsh unemployment numbers and growing job insecurities, our corporations are doing better than ever. In fact, thanks to productivity gains found in squeezing existing workers, U.S. corporations recent...

• The making of a Southern liberal

  Created: Tuesday, 01 October 2013 14:48

  By D.G. MARTIN CHAPEL HILL — What is the dilemma that haunts every Southerner who confesses he or she is a liberal? For Brandt Ayers in his new book, “In Love With Defeat: The Making of a Southern Liberal,” it is this: his progressive views set hi...

• On the left: The propriety of public privacy

  Created: Tuesday, 01 October 2013 14:47

  If you have a job your personnel records are, well, personal. Your employer has information about you that is not to be shared with others—for example, your Social Security number. If you are a public employee, holding a job with government at any leve...

• If GOP tactics work, then Dems poorly regarded

  Created: Tuesday, 01 October 2013 14:45

  By LEE BALLARD At the Wagon Wheel restaurant in Mars Hill one morning, as I sipped my coffee and waited for friends, four men sat at a table across the room.  I knew only one of them. Suddenly, one voice rose above the others: “Don’t Republican...