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By CARL MUMPOWER
You may have heard the old joke about how to tell if a politician is lying – it’s anytime their lips are moving. In today’s America, we actually expect our politicians to lie and routinely give those on our side a free pass for doi...
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By D.G. MARTIN
CHAPEL HILL — “I want to do something, something besides Moral Mondays.”
A friend was asking me what he could do to stop what The New York Times called recently a “demolition derby” in the state legislature.
But my friend was n...
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By CECIL BOTHWELL
As I write this essay, I am enjoying a balmy breeze provided by the appliance swirling overhead — a ceiling fan revolving at medium speed, quietly making my office more comfortable.
Though results vary, it’s estimated that ...
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By LEE BALLARD
Hasslebrook probably thinks too much. Maybe he thinks because he doesn’t talk much. Or maybe he doesn’t talk much because he’s thinking.
Not that he comes up with solutions. Mostly he wonders. He wonders if there really ...
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By STEVEN CHASE
Special to the Daily Planet
BOONE — Superstar country trio Band Perry is a sibling act, but Kimberly Perry was the clear focal point and star of the July 6 show at Appalachian State University’s Kidd Brewe...
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By JOHN NORTH
john@ashevilledailyplanet.com
FRANKLIN — Grammy Award-winning country singer Kathy Mattea wowed crowd with a high-energy, passionate performance before about 800 people on July 20 at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performi...
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By Dave Rowe
Special to the Daily Planet
It’s a song worth writing about.
That’s what best-selling author Mark Kurlansky decided about “Dancing in the Street” and on July 16 he gave remarks on his finished project, “Ready for a Brand Ne...
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UNC Asheville has been named a “Best Buy” in the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2014, joining UNC-Chapel Hill as the only North Carolina schools among the 21 public universities to earn a place on this national rankings list. Elon and Warren Wilson are ...
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From Staff Reports
Asheville Police Lt. William Wilke is contending that Police Chief William Anderson attempted to “coerce” him into making false statements about an accident in which the chief’s son was involved — and that the chief and other c...
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By TIM PECK
Special to the Daily Planet
FLAT ROCK — “Maybe it’s time for the Republican Party to go,” Libertarian author and speaker Michael Cloud said in his June 9 keynote address at the three-day North Carolina Libertarian Party Convention he...
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CULLOWHEE – The Galaxy of Stars Series at Western Carolina University celebrates its ninth season with a lineup that will take audience members from the Beatles’ 1964 U.S. invasion to “Smokey Joe’s Café” and many points between.
The only...
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Mike Fryar, District 2 member of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners, announced June 11 that he is undergoing treatment for cancer, but plans to continue to serve his constituents.
“I want the citizens of Buncombe County to know that it is...
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From Staff Reports
Following drug charges filed against the owner, the store managers and employees of Octopus Garden locations around Asheville in late June, conservative activist and former city councilman Carl Mumpower told the Daily Planet he i...
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MARS HILL — Mars Hill College will soon become Mars Hill University.
The school is making the change in August, after 157 years as a college.
Administrators hope the change will attract more students to the school in Madison County, located nort...
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By JOHN NORTH
john@ashevilledailyplanet.com
HENDERSONVILLE — “The Music of Peter, Paul & Mary,” a June salute to the long-running folk group in Flat Rock Playhouse’s Music on the Rock series, was good, but not great.
Playing...
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By JOHN NORTH
john@ashevilledailyplanet.com
BREVARD — “The Ultimate Doo Wop Show” appeared to delight the crowd of more than 800 people who showed up on June 22 at Brevard Music Center’s Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium.
The show featured p...
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By Karen Oelschlaeger
and Matthew Hoagland
There’s a lot of noise going on in Raleigh right now. On one hand, the Republican-led House and Senate are busy trying to close out budget reconciliation and on the other, Moral Monday protesters are ...
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Shame on Asheville and Buncombe County officials for their shady part in securing Project X, the months-long mystery that was confirmed in mid-June as a GE Aviation new technology plant on Asheville’s Sweeten Creek Road.
GE agreed to invest $126 millli...
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Liberals, conservatives need united fight for liberty
It figures that BIG media is making a “Where’s Waldo” story out of John Snowden’s NSA (National Security Agency) leak case.
I mean, why concentrate on the big st...
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By D.G. MARTIN
CHAPEL HILL — “We will not be Intimidated or Coerced by Certain Alphabetical Organizations or Committees under the Disguise of ‘Betterment of Certain Groups or Races’.”
It reads like the reactions of some North Carolinians to th...
