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• Meadows celebrates primary runoff win

  Created: Thursday, 09 August 2012 16:00

  From Staff Reports   FLETCHER — Republican 11th District congressional candidate Mark Meadows and his supporters gathered on the evening of July 17 at the Hampton Inn & Suites to celebrate his primary runoff victory.. The lobby and other adj...

• Moffitt gives legislative update at picnic

  Created: Thursday, 09 August 2012 15:57

  From Staff Reports   LEICESTER — Rep. Tim Moffitt, R-Buncombe, provided a state legislative update during a July 9 picnic meeting by Citizens for Change at Brick Methodist Church. Besides Moffitt, a number of local candidates attended the soiré...

• Left is right ... and right is wrong, prof claims

  Created: Monday, 16 July 2012 17:39

  Based on evidence,  liberalism triumphs over conservatism, ‘seniors’ at UNCA told By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com The political philosophy of liberals and conservatives sharply di...

• BCGOP fires Yelton from its leadership

  Created: Monday, 16 July 2012 17:33

  By JOHN NORTH  john@ashevilledailyplanet.com SKYLAND — The Buncombe County Republican Party voted on June 25 to remove Don Yelton from “all positions of (BCGOP) leadership,” including its executive committee, prompting a former party chairm...

• Chamber honors small-business leaders

  Created: Monday, 16 July 2012 17:32

  From Staff Reports  A number of individuals were honored during the annual meeting of the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce on June 21 at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in downtown Asheville. The awards and winners included the following: • Small Busi...

• McCrory touts business-friendly tack to fix N.C.

  Created: Monday, 16 July 2012 17:30

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com The state is in terrible financial condition, North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Pat McCrory said during an address on June 15 to the Council of Independent Business Owners in downtown Asheville...

• Correction July 2012

  Created: Monday, 16 July 2012 17:29

  A story in June’s Daily Planet on a petition by a citizens group against Asheville public radio station WCQS-FM’s license renewal was incorect in stating that “the group had charged that WCQS was not responsive to the local listernship and had viola...

• Aristotle vs. John Locke: The battle of the 2 ‘isms’

  Created: Monday, 16 July 2012 17:28

  From Staff Reports “The Philosophical Origins of Liberalism and Conservatism” was the focus of a presentation by Bob Wiley in the first of a three-part lecture series titled “Today’s Politics — Left and Right or Right and Wrong?” on June 21 a...

• Capitalism called ‘most just, fair system,’ but religionists push back

  Created: Monday, 16 July 2012 17:27

  From Staff Reports SKYLAND — Brian Balfour’s presentation of the Civitas Free Market Academy workshop on “The Morality of Capitalism” triggered a concerted pushback from several attendees with strong religious convictions on June 28 at the Skylan...

• Back from West Virginia nightmare: A prepper’s saga

  Created: Monday, 16 July 2012 17:25

  EDITOR’S NOTE: Scott Richardson, a resident of Blowing Rock and a “prepper,” wrote this essay below on July 2. It is reprinted here with his permission.   By SCOTT RICHARDSON We are back from West Virginia — land of no power. If I hadn’...

• Concert review: Bee Gees saluted in stellar show

  Created: Monday, 16 July 2012 17:22

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com HENDERSONVILLE — The show, “Stayin’ Alive: The Music of the Bee Gees,” thrilled the crowd with the sounds of the stellar pop group June 12-14 in the Music on the Rock concert series by the Flat Rock Pl...

• Moffitt shares views, hears constituents concerns

  Created: Monday, 16 July 2012 17:20

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   LEICESTER — State Rep. Tim Moffitt, R-Buncombe, addressed his constituents, fielded questions from them and then chatted informally with anyone interested afterward during a town hall-style meeting o...

• Letters to the Editor: July 2012

  Created: Monday, 16 July 2012 17:02

  Polarization requires tending of mind’s garden The more individuals in a society are exposed to a thing, the greater they are conditioned and predisposed to expect and accept those things as being true. The use of “us and th...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: To bee, or not to bee? Asheville buzzes as 1st ‘bee city’

  Created: Monday, 16 July 2012 16:59

  Asheville City Council made an important symbolic gesture when it voted unanimously on June 26 to make Asheville the “Inaugural Bee City, USA.” The action occurred at a council meeting during which some local beekeepers marched into council chambers,...

• The Candid Conservative: Fairness sales pitch? Unfair

  Created: Monday, 16 July 2012 16:57

  BY CARL MUMPOWER Hope and change didn’t work out for the Obama gang, so they’ve now hitched their wagon to a new sales pitch.  “Fairness” is their new hook for the masses.  It’s hard to argue against fairnes —  it sounds so, we...

• On the left: Bele not ‘shared;’ downshift urged

  Created: Monday, 16 July 2012 16:54

  BY CECIL BOTHWELL Each July we are treated to a new round of hype about the city’s Bele Chere festival, following overdrawn late-winter suspense concerning announcement of the talent line-up. On alternate years we are either instructed about its suppo...

• Roberts’ decision proves prognosticator wrong

  Created: Monday, 16 July 2012 16:51

  By LEE BALLARD Two months ago in this space, I wrote: “I hear it said that Chief Justice John Roberts loves the Supreme Court and doesn’t want partisanship to be his legacy. I hear he’ll work to bring some kind of happy ending to the Obamacare cas...

• New data revives battle with the EPA, Asheville man says

  Created: Monday, 16 July 2012 16:49

  From Staff Reports  FLETCHER— Larry Keller of Asheville provided the Asheville Tea Party with an update on his ongoing battle with the Environmental Protection Agency during the group’s weekly Tea Time meeting on June 25 at the Lone Star Restaur...

• ATPAC backs candidates in GOP’s primary run-off

  Created: Monday, 16 July 2012 16:48

  From Staff Reports  Five candidates in the Republican primary run-off on July 17 have been endorsed by the Asheville Tea Party Political Action Committee. The ATPAC-endorsed candidates and their offices include Mark Meadows for N.C. 11 congressiona...

• Carolina Stompers stage protest of president’s 100th round of golf

  Created: Monday, 16 July 2012 16:46

  From Staff Reports  The Carolina Stompers, a local conservative activist group, staged a 75-minute protest against President Barack Obama early on the evening of June 20 in front of the U.S. Cellular Center in downtown Asheville. Specifically, the ...