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• Obama touts jobs plan in Arden visit

  Created: Saturday, 09 March 2013 16:55

  From Staff Reports ARDEN — President Barack Obama discussed jobs and the economy during a 20-minute speech to a crowd of workers and invited guests at midday Feb. 13 at Linamar Corp., a Canadian auto-parts manufacturer. It was Obama’s fourth visit t...

• State of Downtown Address: Mayor seeks parking fee hike boost

  Created: Saturday, 09 March 2013 16:54

  From Staff Reports Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy said in her State of Downtown Address on Feb. 25 that City Council will consider increasing the cost of parking downtown up to 25 cents per hour later this year. The increases would be for metered spaces ...

• City attorney to leave post to be professor

  Created: Saturday, 09 March 2013 16:53

  Asheville’s long-time City Attorney Bob Oast recently announced that he will be leaving his job to become a professor at Ohio State University. Serving as the city government’s attorney since 1996, he has worked with local governments in the state fo...

• SoCon tournament planned March 8-11

  Created: Saturday, 09 March 2013 16:52

  The Southern Conference basketball tournament will return March 8-11 at U.S. Cellular Center in downtown Asheville and Kimmel Arena at nearby UNC Asheville. Last year’s tournament in Asheville drew more than 40,000 people. A 10 percent increase in Ash...

• Utility slashes rate increase request

  Created: Saturday, 09 March 2013 16:52

  Progress Energy, which had filed in October for about an 11 percent average rate increase across all customer classes, announced in late February that it has agreed to reduce the rate boost by about half. The state Utilities Commission is holding a serie...

• Nothing in U.S. ‘should be free,’ Burr tells CIBO

  Created: Saturday, 09 March 2013 16:51

  America is faced with a debt crisis and the federal government cannot cut its way out of it, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr told a group of business leaders during a Feb. 21 luncheon at Magnolia’s Raw Bar & Grille in downtown Asheville. Burr also said some...

• Leadership Asheville to join with UNCA

  Created: Saturday, 09 March 2013 16:50

  Leadership Asheville, a leadership development organization, will join with UNC Asheville in the coming months, and transition away from its current status as an independent, nonprofit organization. The announcement was made Feb. 27, following discussion...

• ‘Vision of Black South?’ Boost public education, prof says

  Created: Saturday, 09 March 2013 16:48

  From Staff Reports   SWANNANOA — The need to strengthen public education was emphasized in Timothy B. Tyson’s Feb. 10 address on “The Vision of the Black South” in Warren Wilson College Presbyterian Church. Tyson also touted the need f...

• How can communities combat obesity?

  Created: Saturday, 09 March 2013 10:16

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com   Asheville-area groups hoping to increase awareness about the importance of community design, especially how it might affect one’s health, viewed several films on the topic on Feb. 18 at the N.C. Cent...

• Carolina Chocolate Drops: Like a string band on steroids

  Created: Saturday, 09 March 2013 10:14

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com  FRANKLIN — The Carolina Chocolate Drops, reportedly one of the two full-time African-American old-time string bands, unveiled a winning combination of eye-popping showmanship and uncanny ability to con...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: Obama personally stimulates Asheville economy with visits

  Created: Saturday, 09 March 2013 10:12

  Whether one likes or abhors President Barack Obama’s political policies, there is no denying that his professed love of the Asheville area and his repeated visits here — as leader of the free world — are providing a big shot-in-the arm to the local ...

• letters to the editor: March 2013

  Created: Saturday, 09 March 2013 10:09

  Reader sides with pundit against women in combat In your February issue (of the Daily Planet) you carried an article by Bill Fishburne headlined “Case against women in combat?” Although this is based primarily on h...

• The Candid Conservative/Carl Mumpower: Business... Eastwood style

  Created: Saturday, 09 March 2013 10:07

  In his movie “Heartbreak Ridge,” Clint Eastwood famously pounded his unofficial Marine mantra into his trainees — “Improvise, adapt, and overcome.” That’s a pretty good model for combat – it may be even better for doing business. Thanks to t...

• D.G. Martin: Is North Carolina manufacturing dead?

  Created: Saturday, 09 March 2013 10:05

  By D.G. MARTIN CHAPEL HILL — “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” So said Mark Twain after hearing that his obituary had been published in the New York Journal. And many of the more than 1,000 people who attended the Emerging Issues...

• Cecil Bothwell on the left: Save the climate, keep the change

  Created: Saturday, 09 March 2013 10:02

  By CECIL BOTHWELL  As another “warmest winter ever” rolls on in some parts of the country, and the film “Chasing Ice” (2012) reveals the ongoing collapse of glaciers around the world, and Atlantic storms visit record damage on our coasts, an...

• Timothy B. Tyson: Response on Gov. Aycock's legacy

  Created: Friday, 08 March 2013 22:11

  Response to ‘a question that will not stay settled’ Re: public education, white supremacy, Gov. Aycock’s legacy, N.C.’s Fusion movement By TIMOTHY B. TYSON Special to the Daily Planet EDITOR’S NOTE: The following response to Jim Ay...

• Jim Aycock: Prof accused of trashing Gov. Aycock’s legacy

  Created: Friday, 08 March 2013 22:09

  By JIM AYCOCK Dr. Tim Tyson, who was in residence during February at Warren Wilson College, played a role in ending the Vance-Aycock Dinner in Asheville, for 50 years a Democratic Party fundraiser. The Duke professor’s zeal or his worthy cause, civil ...

• Lee Ballard: Time for N.C. Democrats to dethrone GOP

  Created: Friday, 08 March 2013 22:05

  By LEE BALLARD The 62nd North Carolina Infantry was formed in Waynesville in the summer of 1862. They were given “a few old-fashioned muskets, and a small amount of ammunition” and sent to put down “an uprising of disloyal citizens” and to guard...

• Advice Goddess: Hawaii Five-No

  Created: Friday, 08 March 2013 21:58

  Ten years ago, my friend and I met our husbands on the same night (they were friends who challenged us to a game of pool), and we both got married the same year. We all pledged to spend our 10th anniversary in Hawaii together, but my friend’s husband is...

• Gun debate takes aim at solutions

  Created: Sunday, 10 February 2013 17:36

  From Staff Reports FLETCHER — A “Guns in America” debate got heated at times, but all participatns emerged unscathed on Jan. 24 at the WNC Agricultural Center. The debate, hosted by Asheville’s WLOS-TV (News 13) and moderated by Mark Hyman, drew...