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• Asheville metro gains cited in slow recovery

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 21:49

  From Staff Reports    Besides his usual number-crunching presentation on the local economy, which continues to recover, economist Tom Tveidt also featured an analysis of “the new economy” in Asheville during his Aug. 24 address at the 2012...

• Buncombe Forward backs 4th school board candidate

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 21:48

  Buncome Forward, a local conservative activist group, recently announced its endorsement of Brian Freelan, a candidate for the North Buncombe District seat on the Buncombe County School Board. Previously, the group endorsed three additional candidates, i...

• 99% of Americans unprepared (and don’t care), group told

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 21:47

  Second in a series of three stories   By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com   FORT MILL, S.C. — Despite repeated and increasingly numerous catastrophic weather events around the United States and threats of an economic collapse, ter...

• The Advice Goddess: The bride and zoom

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 21:45

  I’m in love, and I just said yes to marrying the man of my dreams. We’ve only known each other for two months, but we’re in the Peace Corps. You really see the core of a person when conditions are not so comfy. We’re planning on traveling home to ...

• L-RU marks opening of grad center in Asheville

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 21:41

  From Staff Reports    Lenoir-Rhyne University’s opening of its new downtown Center for Graduate Studies of Asheville was celebrated with the presentation of a key to the city to the school’s president on Aug. 13. In addition, Mayor Terry ...

• Duncan’s ‘living Constitution’ view draws fire

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 21:36

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com   ARDEN — Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan, a Democrat, ignited verbal sparks when he said the United States Constitution is “a living document” during an address to the Asheville Tea Party follo...

• Temptations lead singer recalls Motown’s heyday

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 21:31

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com Dennis Edwards, former lead singer of The Temptations and now a resident of St. Louis, was interviewed by the Asheville Daily Planet on Aug. 20, prior to the group’s Aug. 31 concert at Smoky Mountain Cente...

• Concert review — Dennis Edwards’ Temptations: Sunshine on a cloudy day

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 21:28

  JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com FRANKLIN — Introduced as “Motown’s original boy band,” The Temptations Review Starring Dennis Edwards performed  a 90-minute Aug. 31 show that delighted the  crowd that filled about two-thirds...

• From the right — Impact of film ‘2016: Obama’s America’?

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 21:24

  By RON KAUFFMAN teapartyhendersoncounty@gmail.com   HENDERSONVILLE -— When I heard that author Dinesh D’Souza was doing a film, having read his book, “The Roots of Obama’s Rage,” I decided to see it, and did so in Greenville, S.C., on it...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: Everything is beautiful?

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 21:20

  As usual, Asheville-area business leaders were presented with a cheery interpretation of the still-rather-sorry state of the local economy. The remarks —  as always, accentuating the positive — were provided by economists James Smith and Tom Tve...

• Letters to the Editor: September 2012

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 20:55

  Women’s freedom to bare breasts? Its worth preserving City Council shouldn’t let Carl Mumpower and Chad Nesbitt bully them into taking away another freedom from women. It’s hypocritical enough that the same peopl...

• The Candid Conservative: Batman’s a conservative

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 20:50

  By Carl Mumpower Whatever you do, don’t let the Aurora Colorado murders stop you from seeing the latest Batman movie. “The Dark Knight Rises” is one of the best this year.  As Super-hero flicks go, it may be the best ever – especially if you...

• On the left: The incredible shrinking city

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 20:47

  By Cecil Bothwell Cities aren’t what they used to be. Depending on where you set your baseline, that’s mostly good news, coupled with some very difficult financial problems that will need solution. Some of the issues are emergent, that is, they are...

• Obama termed far superior to Romney on foreign policy

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 18:31

  By LEE BALLARD In 416 B.C, Athens sent a huge armada to conquer Sicily.  A cakewalk was expected, but through gross miscalculations, they were defeated.  Their democracy was overthrown.  Sparta occupied Athens by 404 B.C.  And their ...

• ‘Slicker than that’ in Madison County

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 18:29

  By D.G. MARTIN CHAPEL HILL — “Amazing,” I told my friend the other day. “Three of this year’s best North Carolina novels are set up in Madison County, just north of Asheville along the Tennessee line.” “Interesting,” my friend said, but ...

• Sampling set in contaminated French Broad River

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 18:14

  By MELISSA WILLIAMS Western North Carolina Alliance    Bacteria pollution in the French Broad River watershed is prevalent, but largely unmonitored and therefore unresolved. Bacteria impairment in area streams usually means sewage or animal ...

• Ex-Reynolds sports star makes name as wrestler

  Created: Sunday, 16 September 2012 18:11

  Chad Allegra, a former three-sport star at A.C. Reynolds High School near Asheville, has made it big as a professional wrestler — performing under the name Karl “Machine Gun” Anderson — and currently working steadily under contract in Toyko, Japan...

• Topless rally to make return despite outcry

  Created: Thursday, 09 August 2012 17:59

  Opponents plan to strike back with silent protest in organizer’s Ala. city By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com Under the banner of equality, women will be baring their breasts during the sec...

• Tea partiers out of synch with Founding Fathers, prof says

  Created: Thursday, 09 August 2012 17:50

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com  In his final lecture — “Our Founding Fathers: Whose Side Were They Really On” —  in a three-part Thoughtful Thursday series at UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center, Bob Wiley began by noting, “...

• Trader Joe’s announces plan to open in Asheville

  Created: Thursday, 09 August 2012 17:48

  From Staff Reports   Trader Joe’s, a specialty grocery store chain that is widely regarded as “hip,” announced on July 12 that it will be opening a 13,000-square-foot store on Merrimon Avenue in North Asheville sometime in 2013. The site wou...