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• Flat Rock Playhouse gets help to continue

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2013 23:55

  From Staff Reports FLAT ROCK — A financial crisis was averted in mid-December by donors who gave more than $250,000 through fund-raisers, enabling the Flat Rock Playhouse to move ahead with its 2013 season, according to Vincent Marini, the FRP’s exec...

• Protesters push for avoiding ‘fiscal cliff’ tax increases

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2013 23:26

  From Staff Reports   Despite rainy weather, about 30 MoveOn members and representatives of the Western North Carolina Central Labor Council/AFL-CIO converged Dec. 10 at the Federal Building in downtown Asheville to protest a situation that will res...

• Fired-up crowd cheers McCrory’s Taylor dinner talk

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2013 23:24

  By JOHN NORTH   Spirits were high as governor-elect Pat McCrory told of his aspirations to run a lean and effective state government during the 20th Annual Charles H. Taylor Holiday Dinner Dec.8 at The Grove Park Inn in Asheville. The party faithf...

• S. Korea’s relations with N. Korea, China explained

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2013 23:22

  From Staff Reports   North Korea remains an unpredictable — and dangerous — neighbor, while China is pragmatically increasing trade and cultural relations with South Korea. At least that was the word Dec. 4, when He Beom Kim, consul general of...

• The Advice Goddess: Unlucky in shove

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2013 19:23

  My husband was a heavy-drinking, drug-taking skirt-chaser who worked only sporadically, so I divorced him three years ago. He quit drinking and drugs, renounced skirt chasing, and was constantly professing his love for me, so I took him back on the condit...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: Why so unprepared in N.Y., N.J.?

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2013 19:19

  Many in the mainstream media have poked fun at the prepper movement — a growing number of individuals who gather supplies, learn survival skills and form mutual-aid groups in preparation for possible emergencies. One critic who lampooned preppers (aka ...

• letters to the editor: January 2013

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2013 19:18

  Water deal for Asheville? Going from bad to worse The deal stripping Asheville of its water system keeps getting worse.  Along with the $3.5 million annual hit to City taxpayers, now Buncombe County MSD custo...

• N.C. Dems: Following a lead and finding a leader

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2013 19:15

  By D.G. MARTIN  CHAPEL HILL — How are the North Carolina Democratic Party and the National Republican Party alike? That is easy. Both lost elections this fall and do not know what to do about it. It is particularly humiliating for North Carolina...

• The Candid Conservative: Watch out for the real cliff

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2013 19:13

  By CARL MUMPOWER  Societies get precisely the government they earn. America’s not an exception. Countries, like people, are only special if they act special. There was a time when that was true for America, but our beacon of liberty, opportunity a...

• On the left: Unpulling the trigger

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2013 19:10

  By CECIL BOTHWELL  As anyone would expect, Asheville City Council, along with thousands of other local government bodies around the country, has received many demands for increased school safety following the recent horrific slaughter in Newtown, Co...

• Conservatives? They come in many flavors

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2013 19:07

  By LEE BALLARD  I used to think that the word “liberal” was a word conservatives throw around like a firebomb, a word without much meaning, something like what we might scream at a bad driver. But over the years I came to understand that the wo...

• Ballard overlooked a political fact – incumbents usually win

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2013 19:05

  By Ron Kauffman A recent article (in the Daily Planet) by Lee Ballard stating that the Tea Parties hurt Romney was, at best, only partially accurate. It also seems that Mr. Ballard believes that the future survival of the Tea Party will be totally depen...

• How do we deter the evil and insane?

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2013 19:02

  By Bill Fishburne  I find it hard to think about the tragedy at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Conn., without having difficulty catching my breath. It makes me want to cry and, at my age, I might be forgiven for so doing. But tears and knee jerk reac...

• Reasons given for go-ahead with gun giveaway

  Created: Thursday, 03 January 2013 19:01

  EDITOR’S NOTE: The Asheville Tea PAC released the following statement by Jane Bilello, its chair, to the Daily Planet on Dec. 18. • By JANE BILELLO Why are we going ahead with the Great Gun Giveaway? The horror at Sandy Hook Elementary is beyond c...

• Fluoridation forum turns into debate

  Created: Saturday, 08 December 2012 00:43

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com   A discussion on “Why do we have fluoride in the public water supply and is it good for us or are there risks?” was brought to a boil at times by the anti-fluoridation panelists and some anti-fluori...

• Flat Rock Playhouse battling to survive

  Created: Saturday, 08 December 2012 00:40

  $250K needed soon to survive; $1M sought for stability’s sake  FLAT ROCK — The Flat Rock Playhouse, in dire need of funds, is working to raise $250,000 by the end of December, according to Vincent...

• Good, bad outcomes of RAD revitalization explored

  Created: Saturday, 08 December 2012 00:37

  From Staff Reports  The possible good and bad outcomes associated with urban revitalization efforts were explored, using Asheville’s River Arts District as a point of conversation, on Nov. 19 in Lenoir-Rhyne University’s Asheville Boardroom. Th...

• Tunnel Road’s Kmart closing; Whole Foods to open in its location

  Created: Saturday, 08 December 2012 00:36

  Whole Foods Market announced Nov. 20 that it will open a second store in the Asheville area in the location of the current Kmart shopping center on Tunnel Road. The newest store in North Carolina for the natural and organic foods supermarket will occupy ...

• Economic summit panel agrees on innovation issues

  Created: Saturday, 08 December 2012 00:33

  From Staff Reports  The Fourth Annual AdvantageWest Economic Summit on Nov. 19 featured a panel discussion in which all four participants favored innovation and expressed the sentiment that Western North Carolina has an unusually large number of cre...

• After canvass, Frost takes 2nd seat by 13 votes; Merrill to seek recount

  Created: Saturday, 08 December 2012 00:31

  Republican Mike Fryar was the top vote-getter (25 percent), followed by Democrat Ellen Frost, who edged Republican Christina Merrill by just 13 votes for the second seat in the District 2 Buncombe County Board of Commissioners race on Nov. 6. Finishing a...