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• The Candid Conservative: Insidious ‘stupidity taxes’

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 21:51

  By CARL MUMPOWER On top of the fees and taxes we pay to local, state and federal governments, there is an every-growing burden of hidden tolls that evade meaningful scrutiny. With the power of governmental sanction, these levees stroll through the backd...

• Egypt, Nazi Germany and N.C.

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 21:48

  By D.G. MARTIN CHAPEL HILL — Does the following description of a political situation at the beginning of July apply to Egypt or North Carolina? “Just a year after winning a decisive election victory and taking power from an entrenched regime that ha...

• On the left — Asheville: The Green Leader

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 21:46

  By CECIL BOTHWELL Asheville is rapidly gaining recognition as a national leader in energy and resource conservation, and it has everything to do with the attitudes and beliefs of our citizens. Signs of that personal dedication are everywhere.  We h...

• Modern U.S.? Look to GOP revolution in Raleigh

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 21:44

  By LEE BALLARD A new friend asked me what I think of modern America.  Top of my mind went to the obvious – that I don’t like the “immediate gratification” that permeates our society today. Then the other day I found myself using the same ph...

• Why Glenn Beck ranks as ‘real deal’ and hero

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 21:43

  By ROBIN SHOEMAKER Glenn Beck is my hero. I know, I know. He sounds a little crazy. He’s a little hyperactive. And he cries a lot. But over a period of several years, this man has earned my respect. The source of my admiration isn’t from his critic...

• Advice Goddess: His life is methy ....

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 21:37

  My girlfriend had a drug problem but claimed she’d been clean for seven years. It turns out she’s been using for the entire year we’ve been together. Two months ago, she went to rehab. I thought she was doing all right afterward, but then she admitt...

• Horoscope

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 21:35

  By MARYANNE MORRIS Special to the Daily Planet Aries (March 21-April 19) Your life is going to get better. Just go with the flow and live with it.   Taurus (April 20- May 20) Wear blue this month. It looks good on you.   Gemini (May 21...

• REVIEW: Sinatra tribute? It was swingin’, baby!

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 21:33

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com   FRANKLIN — Rick Michel seemed to channel the late, great Frank Sinatra with a ring-a-ding ding performance of the fast-living, fist-fighting, skirt-chasing crooner’s unique vocals and...

• REVIEW: Clint Black captures hearts with his music

  Created: Sunday, 08 September 2013 21:31

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com   FRANKLIN — Clad in all-black attire and crowned with a black cowboy hat, country music singer-songwriter Clint Black sat down and sang and played the guitar with his tight three-man band Au...

• Protesters vent against GOP policies

  Created: Tuesday, 13 August 2013 09:57

  From Staff Reports In response to Republican-led legislation in state government in Raleigh, a Moral Sunday gathering was held on July 28 at White Horse Black Mountain and a protest march by Asheville-area teachers proceeded later in the week In the lat...

• Review: Keillor’s ‘Prairie’ wows crowd

  Created: Tuesday, 13 August 2013 09:52

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com BREVARD — The news from Lake Wobegon — and beyond — was decidedly outstanding. And a projected two-hour show became three and a half hours. Host Garrison Keillor appeared to be having the time of his li...

• Public works chief grilled by CIBO attendees

  Created: Tuesday, 13 August 2013 09:48

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com Asheville Public Works Director Cathy Ball caught some flak from several attendees of a July 12 breakfast meeting of the Council of Independent Business Owners at Biltmore Square Mall in West Asheville.  ...

• GOP fires up faithful at picnic

  Created: Tuesday, 13 August 2013 09:45

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com The Buncombe County Republican Party fired verbal fireworks July 25 to fire up a full-house crowd of about 200 people at its annual summer picnic at The Arboretum in West Asheville. BCGOP Chairman Henry Mitch...

• 8 teenagers charged in brawl at final Bele Chere

  Created: Tuesday, 13 August 2013 09:44

  From Staff Reports Asheville’s 35th — and possibly last — Bele Chere wrapped up peacefully July 28, folllowing performances by the bands Balsam Range, Nahko and Medicine the People.  Besides the live music, there was dancing, craft sales, fin...

• Montreat College would give up name in merger with Point U.

  Created: Tuesday, 13 August 2013 09:42

  From Staff Reports While Montreat College would give up its name in a merger planned with another Christian school, Point University, some of the college’s alumni are questioning the proposal. Willie Mangum, president of MC’s Alumni Board, told lo...

• Judge orders records to be turned over

  Created: Tuesday, 13 August 2013 09:41

  From Staff Reports Prosecutors were ordered by a judge on Aug. 1 to share all records relating to charges against Asheville Police Chief William Anderson’s son and allegations the chief tried to coerce an officer into making false statements about the ...

• City officials support police chief after probe

  Created: Tuesday, 13 August 2013 09:40

  From Staff Reports Asheville City Council was informed during a July 11 closed session that city Police Chief William Anderson made an error in removing a lieutenant from an interview with state investigators about his son’s car wreck. However, City M...

• The Advice Goddess: The jaws of ex-wife Q: I have had a huge crush on a man for several months and finally asked him out for drinks. During our “date,” he mentioned his friend he wanted to set me up with, and I told him that HE is the person I’m intereste

  Created: Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:02

  I have had a huge crush on a man for several months and finally asked him out for drinks. During our “date,” he mentioned his friend he wanted to set me up with, and I told him that HE is the person I’m interested in. He laughed nervously and seemed...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: Bele Chere? Taking it to the limit one more time

  Created: Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:00

  The 35th and likely final Bele Chere wrapped up about 6 p.m. Aug. 28 — and its wrapup came in the nick of time, leaving its positive legacy intact. The music and craft festival, founded in 1979, long-ago accomplished its mission of helping revitalize a...

• Letters to the Editor: August 2013

  Created: Monday, 12 August 2013 23:50

  APD lieutenant praised for courage to speak out Thank you for detailing accusations of a controversial cover-up surrounding the March 9th accident involving Asheville Police Chief William Anderson’s son, allegedly orc...