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• Lawsuit looms in water system seizure?

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:55

  From Staff Reports The state House of Representatives on May 2 gave final approval to legislation that ends Asheville’s control of the regional water system with no compensation to the city. In the aftermath, the city is considering a legal fight. Spe...

• Mumpower vows to leave GOP if water system leaves Asheville

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:51

  From Staff Reports Carl Mumpower, one of the most prominent political conservatives in Asheville history, announced on April 26 that he would leave the Republican Party over what he termed the “legislative larceny” of the Asheville water system. Whe...

• ‘League of Women Vipers’ tweet still reverberates

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:44

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com    A recent tweet by a Buncombe County Republican Party official — allegedly in a playful reference to The League of Women Voters of Asheville-Buncombe County as the “League of Women Vipers” �...

• UNCA packs $268M in local economic punch, study says

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:42

  From Staff Reports  UNC Asheville had an economic impact of $268 million in fiscal year 2012 in the Asheville metro area, according to a study released by the university in early April. Authored by research economist Tom Tveidt at SYNEVA Economics ...

• McDevitt takes reigns of UNCA men’s basketball

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:41

  After 12 years as an assistant coach at UNC Asheville, Nick McDevitt’s dream came true on April 26 when he was named head coach of the men’s basketball team. McDevitt, 34, was chosen to succeed his mentor, Eddie Biedenbach, who is the school’s all-...

• WWC inaugurates world traveler as 7th president

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:41

  SWANNANOA — Steven L. Solnick, 52, and a world traveler was formally inaugurated as the seventh president of Warren Wilson College in an April 27 ceremony at the school. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from M.I.T., a bachelor’s degree in po...

• UNCA chancellor captures national leadership award

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:40

  UNC Asheville Chancellor Anne Ponder has received the inaugural Dr. Claire Van Ummerson Presidential Leadership Award, the university announced April 23. She will be honored on May 16 at the Women’s Leadership Symposium in Indianapolis by the National ...

• A-B Tech roundup: Building work halted

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:38

  From Staff Reports Citing concerns about costs associated with a planned auditorium, Buncombe County in early April ordered work to stop on an expansion at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College. The stoppage follows wrangling between school and...

• By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com Rep. Tim Moffitt, R-Buncombe County, calmly fielded a challenge from local activist Barry Summers regarding his stance on the legislation he has proposed to merge the Asheville regional water system into the Me

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:37

  From Staff Reports A second protest by local residents against the sale of the drug Bizarro was held April 13 near the Up ‘N’ Smoke store at 34 New  Leicester Highway near Patton Avenue in Asheville. In addition, protest organizers announced th...

• Moffitt defends his water merger plan

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:34

  By JOHN NORTH john@asheville>dailyplanet.com   Rep. Tim Moffitt, R-Buncombe County, calmly fielded a challenge from local activist Barry Summers regarding his stance on the legislation he has proposed to merge the Asheville regional water syste...

• Sequester relief for parks? None forecast by Meadows

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:33

  From Staff Reports Sequester relief for the National Park Service from cuts to fix the nation’s budget woes is doubtful, U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, R-Highlands, told the Council of Independent Business Owners on April 30 at Magnolia’s restaurant in down...

• Park Ridge Hospital breaks ground for S. Asheville center

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:31

  From Staff Reports A groundbreaking was held April 9 for Park Ridge Health at Biltmore Park, a $10 million state-of-the-art medical center that will be located immediately off I-26, Exit 37. It is expected to open in 2014. The four-story, 25,000-square-...

• Cherokee sovereignty must be defended constantly, chief says

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:30

  From Staff Reports  An address on“Cherokee Sovereignty: Issues and Institutions” by Mitchell Hicks, principle chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, drew a large turnout of more than 150 people April 11 at UNC Asheville’s Highsmith Uni...

• Tribe unveils plan to build 2nd casino near Murphy

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:29

  From Staff Reports  The Tribal Council of North Carolina’s Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians recently approved building a $110 million casino and hotel near Murphy in Cherokee County, Principal Chief Mitchell Hicks said April 11 during an address a...

• Are local government-owned vehicles being used illegally?

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:28

  From Staff Reports A Daily Planet reader notified the newspaper recently that he has spotted clearly marked City of Asheville and Buncombe County vehicles being used for personal business, such as dropping off children at North Windy Ridge Elementary Sch...

• GOP triumphs cited at Lincoln-Reagan gala

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:26

  From Staff Reports Spirits were high among the 200 attendees of the Lincoln-Reagan 2013 Victory Celebration Dinner April 6 at the Crowne Plaza Resort in West Asheville. The crowd was welcomed by Buncombe County GOP Chairman Henry Mitchell, who expressed...

• Keillor’s poignant show captures hearts

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:24

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com   BOONE — Garrison Keillor must have fortified himself  earlier with some Powdermilk Biscuits because this self-proclaimed “shy person” had the strength to get up and do what needed to be ...

• Funk band to open Asheville’s Downtown After 5 series

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:23

  The 25th season of the Downtown After 5 street party will open with Big Sam’s Funky Nation, featuring a New Orleans funk sound, just after 5 p.m. May 17 on North Lexington Avenue. The monthly gala, staged from May through September and featuring  ...

• Daily Planet’s Opinion: Asheville overrated? Yes, but....

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:19

  Asheville, topping so many “best” lists, recently received the dubious distinction of being listed on the Huffington Post’s “terribly overrated destinations.” David Landsel, contributing editor at airfarewatchdog.com who wrote the story and com...

• Letters to the editor May 2013

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:15

  Conservative pundit’s pot stance challenged Carl Mumpower’s assertion in “N.C. Dems push downgrading pot penalties’’ that cannabis is a slow but certain route to hell reverses the pro-pot vow he made onstage at The Orange Pe...