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• Advice Goddess: Son, girlfriend need to talk after motherly shove

  Created: Monday, 16 July 2012 16:43

  I am in my 20s and, for eight months, have been seeing a girl who might very well be “the one.” The problem is she wants to meet my mother, who is beyond controlling. She plays a game with girls I date, which I call “the 20 questions of doom.” Her...

• Fallout from hard times? It’s ‘horrific,’ official says

  Created: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:53

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com The Council of Independence Business Owners on June 1 heard presentations on the proposed Buncombe County budget, on food security in Asheville and Buncombe and on the formation of a neighborhood advisory co...

• Tickling funny bones ... with a neo-conservative twist?

  Created: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:50

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com   SKYLAND — Meetings of the Asheville Tea Party usually are serious affairs, but the featured speaker, comedian Eric Golub, had the 40 or so people in stitches of laughter with his rapid-fire jokes on ...

• 9th Montford festival proves entertaining

  Created: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:49

  From Staff Reports  The 9th Annual Montford Music & Arts Festival reportedly drew more than 6,800 people — its largest-ever crowd — during the all-day neighborhood celebration on a sunny, balmy May 19. In addition to a musical lineup that w...

• Memorial Day marked by sparse turnouts

  Created: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:48

  From Staff Reports  Memorial Day ceremonies drew relatively sparse turnouts in Asheville and Black Mountain on May 28. A ceremony held near the Veterans Memorial in Pack Square Park in downtown Asheville — jointly hosted by the city and Buncombe ...

• Standoff with public radio station continues

  Created: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:47

  From Staff Reports The head of the Ad-Hoc Committee for Responsive Public Radio was its lone representative at the WCQS-FM (88.1) board meeting May 16 in Asheville — and he remains frustrated with the way the station is handling the group’s complaint...

• Tips offered for choosing, maintaining ‘prep vehicles’

  Created: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:45

  Second of two stories   From Staff Reports   BLACK MOUNTAIN — “Prep Vehicles” should be chosen for sustainability, reliability and maintainability, guest speaker Tim Glance told the crowd at the 2nd Annual Sensible Mountain Preparednes...

• Neighborhood advisory council plan explained to business group

  Created: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:43

  From Staff Reports  The formation of a neighborhood advisory council was Asheville City Councilman Chris Pelly’s topic of a June 1 presentation to the Council of Independent Business Owners at Biltmore Square Mall. Pelly began by noting that he i...

• Councilman pushes for food security for poor

  Created: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:42

  From Staff Reports  Food security in Asheville and surrounding Buncombe County was the focus of a June 1 talk by Gordon Smith, a member of Asheville City Council. In addressing the Council of Independent Business Owners in Biltmore Square Mall, Smi...

• Comedian fields questions, shares his political views

  Created: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:40

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com SKYLAND — During a question-and-answer session after his May 29 presentation, someone told comedian Eric Golub that a truism she always has followed is “And the truth shall set you free.” To that,...

• Strange incidents reported in land of Dracula

  Created: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:31

  Paranormal investigator survives macabre attacks; cites corroboration By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com Asheville paranormal investigator Shelley Wright recently returned from the “Dracula 2012 Paranormal Exp...

• Concert review: Midtown Men work magic in the mountains

  Created: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:27

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com FRANKLIN — The Midtown Men, four stars from the original cast of the Broadway smash “Jersey Boys,” brought back the sounds of the 1960s during a dazzling June 2 performance with impeccable harmonies and ...

• Advice Goddess: They’ll always have parasites in boyfriend’s house

  Created: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:24

  By AMY ALKON My boyfriend of two months is a gem, but his house is a horror. The fridge and bathroom are disgusting, and the whole place is seriously messy. There’s this eerie feeling that the house was formerly homey, like nothing has changed since hi...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: Memorial Day given snub in Asheville area

  Created: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:22

  Many of the residents of the Asheville area — as with too many other localities throughout the United States — are making a sad joke out of Memorial Day. The holiday, which is intended to honor those who died in the nation’s service, all-too-often ...

• Letters to the Editor: June, 2012

  Created: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:18

  U.S. urged to withdraw now from United Nations Is it not long pass time that the United States withdrew its membership in the United Nations?  I say, YES. Withdraw membership, pull out of all treaties with them, a...

• On the left: A St. Lawrence park?

  Created: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:15

  By CECIL BOTHWELL Several years ago, more than 1,000 people signed a full-page ad in our local daily paper, urging the City of Asheville to create a park opposite the Basilica St. Lawrence. City Council completely ignored the clear preference of all tho...

• The Candid Conservative: Trading ‘harms’ with Mexico

  Created: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:13

  By CARL MUMPOWER The violence going on south of our border matches the worst horrors you can find in history.  It just doesn’t get much worse than cutting off heads, burying people alive upside down, and using older folks for target practice.&nb...

• Tea party movement needs to be crushed into oblivion

  Created: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:07

  By LEE BALLARD   I was a kid during World War II.  My Daddy had a victory garden.  We crushed cans for scrap drives.  We took “Is this trip necessary?” seriously.  Our lives were driven by “the war effort.”  We were...

• 425 years apart, two real estate promoters pick the same spots

  Created: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:05

  By D.G. MARTIN CHAPEL HILL — What does a resort real estate sales brochure have to do with Sir Walter Raleigh and with the Lost Colony that disappeared from North Carolina’s coastland 425 years ago? The colorful brochure that was delivered to my h...

• Candidates voice views during BBQ

  Created: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:00

  From Staff Reports   Several candidates attended — and gave brief speeches — during a mid-afternoon May 27 barbecue luncheon over the Memorial Day weekend hosted by J.B. Howard, a Republican candidate for the chairmanship of the Buncombe County...