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• Advice Goddess: The upgradest love of all

  Created: Sunday, 07 July 2013 20:19

  I’m a single dad of three children, who are my world, and it was a battle to get custody of them. For three years, I’ve dated a woman with grown children, and on our shared birthday (Valentine’s Day), I proposed and she accepted. Two days later, she...

• Carl Mumpower/The Candid Conservative: Good government? It beats big government

  Created: Sunday, 07 July 2013 16:52

  By CARL MUMPOWER Conservatives do not automatically reject the importance of government. Per the lessons of history, we do fear the harmful potentials of an improperly empowered government.  Government is a manmade system for organizing, managing a...

• Cecil Bothwell/On the left: Doing more with less

  Created: Sunday, 07 July 2013 16:43

  By CECIL BOTHWELL In last month’s column I introduced the idea of a Zero Energy District — a geographic area in which residents and businesses aim to produce as much energy as they consume. It’s a lofty goal for modern communities that have grown u...

• Lee Ballard: Duke prof struck low blows in debating Gov. Aycock’s legacy

  Created: Sunday, 07 July 2013 16:33

  By LEE BALLARD Back in March, the Daily Planet ran back-to-back articles ─ first by Asheville’s Jim Aycock, then by Timothy Tyson, an academic at Duke University.  Tyson has verbally tarred and feathered Aycock’s ancestor, Charles Aycock, Nort...

• John Doyle, Buncombe Turnpike, and Tom and Alice to Perform at the UNC Asheville Reuter Center in July

  Created: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 10:11

  Irish guitarist John Doyle, the bluegrass group Buncombe Turnpike, and the duo Tom and Alice will perform in July as part of the Appalachian Summer Music Series on the UNC Asheville campus. The series, featuring the musical traditions of bluegrass, Celtic...

• Water system transfer put on 2-mo. hold

  Created: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 10:07

  From Staff Reports A judge’s ruling blocking the transfer of the Asheville water system to a regional authority will put the matter on hold for two months or more, Asheville City Attorney Bob Oast recetntly told media outlets. The judge’s action blo...

• ‘Scariest man in America’ addresses fears

  Created: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 10:00

  Overdue solar flare or an EMP? Could send world back to Dark Ages By JOHN NORTH  john@ashevilledailyplanet.com    WAYNESVILLE — For a second consecutive year, keynote speaker...

• Rally held to back lifting ban on openly gay scouts scouts

  Created: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 09:59

  From Staff Reports Prior to the May 23 vote by the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America to drop its ban on openly gay members, a number of local activists held a May 10 rally outside the Boy Scout headquarters in Asheville to urge the action tha...

• Mumpower to delay leaving GOP for now

  Created: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 09:57

  From Staff Reports Prominent Asheville conservative activist and leader Carl Mumpower said in a May 17 email to the Daily Planet that “ I won’t drop out (of the Republican Party) until they have successfully seized the water system. The lawsuit put t...

• Tea Party protests IRS’ ‘abuse’

  Created: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 09:55

  From Staff Reports Several dozen members of the Asheville Tea Party showed up May 21 in front of the IRS Office to protsst what they termed “the IRS abuse of power.” Moreover, the proest was “to affirm Asheville Tea Party’s  support of the ...

• Dylan’s show termed a mixed bag

  Created: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 09:48

  Songwriting icon sings, plays only the piano, fails to address Asheville crowd By DAVE ROWE Special to the Daily Planet Hard to believe the guy’s 71. Bob Dylan in his April 30 Cellular Center ...

• Cinebarre unveils summer outdoor screenings

  Created: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 09:47

  Cinebarre recently announced the shows that will be screened in its free annual summer outdoor film series that starts with “Batman Begins” on June 4 outside its theater complex at Asheville’s Biltmore Square Mall. Seating for each outdoor screenin...

• ‘British Invasion’ band captures N.C. town Noone’s Herman’s Hermits turn rainy night concert ‘into something (real) good’

  Created: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 09:42

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com  FRANKLIN — A dreary night with rain pounding outside — uncannily reminiscent of the famed lead singer’s native Manchester, England — provided a highly riveting counterpoint to the explosive May 4...

• James McCartney excels on guitar in Asheville show

  Created: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 09:41

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com  The comparisons were inevitable when James McCartney, son of ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, performed solo in concert for about an hour May 29 at the Altamont Theatre in downtown Asheville. In short, the you...

• Daily Planet's Opinion: City schools’ idiocracy?

  Created: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 09:38

  Given that budgets are tight and taxpayers are struggling in a still-shaky economy, it is absolutely outrageous that the Asheville Board of Education recently awarded a $175,000 payment as a retirement gift for Superintendent Allen Johnson. He is only 54 ...

• letters to the editor: June 2013

  Created: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 09:32

  City mayor termed wrong in opposing toplessness According to John Boyle’s May 18th column (in the Asheville Citizen-Times) about top-free women in public, Mayor (Terry) Bellamy was quoted as saying, “It’s an economic d...

• The Candid Conservative: Our destructive drug culture

  Created: Monday, 10 June 2013 23:11

  By CARL MUMPOWER Our nation’s addicts, drug culturists, and marijuana enthusiasts are growing and so are their harms. Twenty years ago who would have imagined a day when most every community in America would hold a cell of users, dealers, and enablers ...

• The Charlotte Hornets — and an enemy general everywhere

  Created: Monday, 10 June 2013 23:09

  By D.G. MARTIN CHAPEL HILL — What enemy general who fought in North Carolina is most memorialized here? Here is a hint. The Charlotte pro basketball team is taking back the Hornets name. One reason they are taking back that name is because the old Ch...

• On the left: Be prepared to be AMAZED

  Created: Monday, 10 June 2013 23:06

  There’s a movement spreading across the world, hopscotching from one forward-looking city to the next, that will fundamentally shift the way we all use energy, the way we think about energy and the likelihood that modern society will survive through the...

• Lee Ballard: Republicans (finally) do something good

  Created: Monday, 10 June 2013 23:04

  By LEE BALLARD Mike Rowe made a whole bunch of money with his TV show “Dirty Jobs” and as spokesman in Ford commercials.  The show’s canceled, and now he’s focusing on something he really has a heart for:  raising the status of working...