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• 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...

• The Candid Conservative: Republicans continue to cave

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:10

  By CARL MUMPOWER Conservative thinkers have known for some time that the Democratic Party has corrupted itself beyond redemption potentials. They’ve made too many promises to provide something for nothing to have any change of returning to a platform o...

• Two iron ladies showed the way

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:07

  By D.G. MARTIN CHAPEL HILL — What about North Carolina’s “iron lady”? The recent death of Margaret Thatcher, the steely, hard-working, and effective British prime minister, led to much discussion of her career, and we heard different opinions ab...

• On the left: Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:04

  By CECIL BOTHWELL North Carolina is being governed today like the Banana Republic of legend and lore, with a legislature that is carroming out of control, high on the fumes of its own exhaust, and careless of what it might do to the people, the schools, ...

• Ex-ghost writer recalls ups, downs of his craft

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 17:02

  By LEE BALLARD I used to be a ghost.  I was invisible, but you could see my handiwork.  I watched and listened as others spoke my ideas, smiling when my words were quoted in the press. That’s right:  I was a ghost writer.  My name ...

• Town hall meeting focuses on $6M budget deficit

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 16:59

  From Staff Reports  Asheville City Coucil held a town-hall-style meeting-budget discussion on April 3 to review its looming $6 million budget quandary and to get the public’s input. The meeting, held in the banquet hall of the U.S. Cellular Cente...

• Advice Goddess: In sickness and in stealth

  Created: Tuesday, 07 May 2013 16:53

  This woman and I were involved 13 years ago, before I met my wife, but she was married then. She got divorced and moved away. We reconnected recently on Facebook, and I discovered she’s now only 20 miles away. I told her I’m happily married and I’ve...

• Cherokee Principal Chief Michell Hicks to speak at UNCA

  Created: Tuesday, 09 April 2013 20:26

  Principal Chief Michell Hicks of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians will present a talk, “Cherokee Sovereignty: Issues & Institutions,” at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 11 in UNC Asheville’s Highsmith University Union, Alumni Hall. The event i...

• ‘League of Women ... Vipers?’ BCGOP official’s tweet trips trigger

  Created: Tuesday, 09 April 2013 08:00

  From Staff Reports A tweet from an official in the Buncombe County Republican Party that — he said — was intended as a joke has upset the head of the League of Women Voters in Asheville. BCGOP spokesman Nathan West said that the tweet, sent to the p...

• Protesters aim to end Bizarro sales

  Created: Tuesday, 09 April 2013 07:55

  From Staff Reports  About 25 people — many of them concerned parents — showed up midday March 9 along Asheville’s South Tunnel Road near the Up in Smoke store at Innsbrook Mall for a one-hour protest of the shop’s sale of Bizarro. The subst...

• Holocaust survivor recounts horrific experiences, lasting scars ... and luck

  Created: Tuesday, 09 April 2013 07:53

  By JOHN NORTH john@asheville>dailyplanet.com   Walter Ziffer gave a first-hand account of his ordeal in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II and life before and after being freed during a March 20 talk at UNC Asheville’s Highsmith Un...

• SBI probes police chief’s son’s wreck

  Created: Tuesday, 09 April 2013 07:50

  From Staff Reports  The State Bureau of Investigation is conducting an ongoing review of how the Asheville Police Department handled a single-car wreck involving the 22-year-old son of APD Chief William Anderson. Among the questions the SBI will se...

• Bele Chere’s future in doubt

  Created: Tuesday, 09 April 2013 07:49

  From Staff Reports In a cost-cutting move, Asheville City Council on March 12 informally endorsed a proposal to stop funding Bele Chere, the city’s biggest annual festival. Under the plan, the city would allow responsibility for the downtown gala to b...

• Plug-in EV plan for Asheville metro, N.C. unveiled

  Created: Tuesday, 09 April 2013 07:47

  By BRIAN TAYLOR Land-of-Sky Regional Council The Asheville Area Plug-in Electric Vehicle Plan was released March 20 to the public to support Plug-in Electric Vehicle (PEV) readiness efforts in Western North Carolina.   Over the...

• Bothwell backs city police chief

  Created: Tuesday, 09 April 2013 07:46

  While Asheville Police Department Chief William Anderson made “largely a bad PR move” in allowing the APD to investigate a crash involving his son, City Councilman Cecil Bothwell in late March cautioned citizens not to jump to conclusions about the ch...

• Councilman to address progressives

  Created: Tuesday, 09 April 2013 07:45

  Asheville City Councilman Cecil Bothwell will address this month’s meeting of Dinner With Progressives at 6 p.m. April 1 at Firestorm Cafe & Books at 48 Commerce Street in downtown Asheville. Bothwell will outline pending legislation in the North C...

• Tourists’ single-game tickets on sale; season starts April 4 at W.Va.

  Created: Tuesday, 09 April 2013 07:45

  Single-game tickets for the Asheville Tourists’ 2013 season are now on sale, beginning at 10 a.m. Tickets may be purchased at the Tourists’ ServPro Box Office at McCormick Field, online at theashevilletourists.com or by calling the front office at 258...

• Asheville raises fees for water, trash pickup, parking

  Created: Tuesday, 09 April 2013 07:44

  From Staff Reports Asheville City Council on March 26 voted 5-0 to raise rates and fees on water usage, trash pickup, parking and several parks and recreation services,  effective July 1.  The increases will generate an estimated $2.1 million ...

• New Belgium in ‘deconstruction,’ company GM says

  Created: Tuesday, 09 April 2013 07:41

  From Staff Reports New Belgium Brewery General Manager Jay Richardson presented a progress report on his company’s building to the Council of Independent Business Owners early March 8. The issues meeting, including breakfast at Biltmore Square Mall’...