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• Author-prof issues apocalyptic warnings at preppers meeting

  Created: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:27

  First of a series of two stories   By JOHN NORTH  john@ashevilledailyplanet.com WAYNESVILLE — Once again, author-professor William Forstchen was introduced as “the scariest man in America” — this time just before his Sept. 29 keyno...

• Make bug-out plans to deal with cataclysm, expert says

  Created: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:25

  Third in a series of three stories   By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com   FORT MILL, S.C. — Given the possibilities for calamity in today’s world, “if you don’t have a bug-out plan, you need to have one,” self-sufficiency...

• Saga unveiled of how Asheville became ‘Beer City USA’

  Created: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:22

  From Staff Reports Asheville and Buncombe County now boast 10 craft beer manufacturers with more on the way, but it was not always like that, beer enthusiast Tony Kiss said Sept. 21 at UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center. During a talk titled “How Ash...

• ‘Get back to basics’ to boost N.C. schools, Tedesco says

  Created: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:20

  From Staff Reports For years, North Carolina’s public school sysem has  had a tendency to follow the latest fad in education, but the students would be much better served with a return to the basics, John Tedesco, Republican candidate for state ...

• Liberal pundit rips corporate news media’s performance

  Created: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:16

  From Staff Reports   Liberal pundit Amy Goodman ripped the corporate news media and discussed her new book, co-written with Dennis Moynihan, “The Silenced Majority,” on Sept. 7 at A-B Tech’s Ferguson Auditorium in Asheville. About 180 peop...

• Involve media in political process, analyst urges

  Created: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:11

   From Staff Reports Liz Colton, a diplomat, journalist, educator and author, offered her perspective on recent upheavals in Syria, Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East that have drastically altered the volatile region’s dynamics during a Leaders...

• letters to the Editor: October 2012

  Created: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 15:57

  Shrinking Asheville? It’s run by Dim and Dimmer City Council member Cecil Bothwell offers us a helpful window into the thinking of local government in his recent commentary (The Incredible Shrinking City” in the Sep...

• Daily Planet’s Opinion: Aloft hotel clashes with downtown’s art deco style

  Created: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 15:55

  While McKibbon Hotel Group, developer of the new Aloft Asheville Downtown hotel on Biltmore Avenue, has the right to construct a building with an exterior that it likes, one wonders about the firm’s sanity in placing such an architectural monstrosity in...

• Blame it on William Jennings Bryan

  Created: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 15:52

  By D.G. MARTIN CHAPEL HILL — Are you are already tired of the presidential campaigns and the barrage of television ads, glad the conventions are over, and dreading the upcoming debates? Blame it on William Jennings Bryan. It used to be differen...

• The Candid Conservative — Golf: What a waste!

  Created: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 15:47

  By CARL MUMPOWER Can you imagine what could be accomplished if the time, money, and energy invested in golf were funneled into something constructive like the conservative movement. We could move mountains.  That’s not going to happen. The devil...

• On the left: The politics of payback

  Created: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 15:44

  By CECIL BOTHWELL   Republicans regained control of the North Carolina General Assembly in 2010 after something over a century, though any semblance of consistency between the GOP in the post-Civil War south and the GOP in the post-Obama era is com...

• Democrats termed stupid if GOP’s tactics work

  Created: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 15:40

  By LEE BALLARD   At the Wagon Wheel restaurant in Mars Hill one morning, as I sipped my coffee and waited for friends, four men sat at a table across the room.  I knew only one of them.  Suddenly one voice rose above the others:  “...

• Advice Goddess: Alive ... and welded

  Created: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 15:31

  By AMY ALKON  What is an appropriate amount of togetherness time for a couple? My 9-year-old son spends half the week with me, plus every other weekend. My girlfriend of a year wasn’t happy with only the other half of my time, so she started joi...

• Author warns of being ‘connected’ 24/7

  Created: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 15:19

  The first in a series of two stories   By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com Being connected 24/7 to the world via high-tech devices is changing the brains of  users, with studies showing shorter attention spans, an inability to enga...

• Topless rally flops after foes weigh in

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 22:01

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com The second annual topless rally was held Aug. 26 near the Pack Monument in downtown Asheville, but this time attendance of both topless women and gawking and mostly male spectators was down by at least 50 pe...

• West Nile Virus termed ‘emerging threat’

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 21:58

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com   A woman in the Asheville-Buncombe County area is being re-examined via follow-up blood tests for the potentially fatal West Nile Virus, according to Sue Ellen Morrison, supervisor of disease control at...

• Dalton rips McCrory during talk in Asheville

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 21:53

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   North Carolina Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, told a pro-business group in Asheville on Aug. 10 that his GOP opponent’s consumption tax plan, if imposed, could prove ...

• Dalton fields questions

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 21:52

  From Staff Reports   Questions ranging from his stance on entrepreneurship to ways to raise money to increase spending for education were fielded by N.C. Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton, the Democratic nominee for governor, during a question-and-answer sess...

• WCQS license challenge rejected; compliance cited

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 21:51

  From Staff Reports   The Federal Communications Commission recently dismissed a challenge to license renewal for WCQS-FM (88.1) in Asheville and renewed the local public radio station’s broadcast license. The petition was filed late last year by...

• U.S. economy’s future termed bright, despite media’s grim portrayal

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 21:50

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com The United States remains the world’s economic powerhouse and, despite news media reports to the contrary, it is growing and will likely get stronger, an internationally acclaimed economist said during an ...