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• At last, Pack Square restroom construction begins

  Created: Saturday, 05 November 2011 17:38

  From Staff Reports Following a groundbreaking on Nov. 1, work began on the long-awaited pavilion that will house public restrooms and the visitors center at Pack Square Park in downtown Asheville. The Buncombe County Tourism Development Author...

• Alumni band lights up MHC

  Created: Saturday, 05 November 2011 17:35

  The Dynamic Imperials, a 10-piece beach music and rhythm and blues band comprised of Mars Hill College alumni, perform during the school’s recent Homecoming Dance. The band entertained MHC students in the 1960s. The bandmates lost touch with each other...

• Asheville Chamber of Commerce drops out of U.S. chamber

  Created: Saturday, 05 November 2011 17:34

  From Staff Reports The Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce has quietly decided not to renew its membership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as of October 2011. The announcement, placed at the bottom of the Asheville Chamber’s FAQ sectio...

• Wood energy possibilities demonstrated

  Created: Saturday, 05 November 2011 17:32

  David Kobler and Scott Hunt, who run Practical Preppers, LLC, specialists in emergency preparedness from Pickney, S.C., demonstrated ways that wood may be used to generate energy during Customer Appreciation Day on Oct. 26 at Carolina Readiness Supply i...

• Planet's Opinion: A jobs deficit or a skills deficit?

  Created: Saturday, 05 November 2011 17:15

  The United States unemployment rate was 9.1 percent in September, with millions of Americans looking for work, while there were scads of jobs that employers were unable to fill. The problem, as we see it, is a mismatch between job openings and the ...

• The GOP nominee? Itís going to be Rick Perry

  Created: Saturday, 05 November 2011 17:13

    D.G. Martin CHAPEL HILL —  Don’t write off Rick Perry. You ask, why not? Because he is going to be the Republican nominee for president and will give Barack Obama a heck of a race...

• The Candid Conservative: Occupiersí crony socialism ripped

  Created: Saturday, 05 November 2011 17:10

    Carl Mumpower The boys and girls camping out on Wall Street have successfully illuminated the reality of cronyism. Unfortunately, like most angry groups, they’ve thrown the baby out with the bath wate...

• On the left - The Progressive-Libertarian: Occupy America!

  Created: Saturday, 05 November 2011 17:08

    Cecil Bothwell Democracy requires responsible citizens who care about each other and act on each other's behalf. We work together for personal benefit and for the good of our families and our community...

• Letters to the Editor: November, 2011

  Created: Saturday, 05 November 2011 17:06

  To return pride to city, end crassness, distortion We have often heard that Asheville had men to match our mountains. Our city has historically taken great pride in being a reflection of our mountains. In recent years, the reflection has bee...

• Departures of talk-show duo questioned, irks some listeners

  Created: Saturday, 05 November 2011 16:56

  Talk-show host Matt Mittan works with his award-winning produder-sidekick Agnes Cheek during happier times in the WWNC-AM studio in West Asheville. Daily Planet Staff Photo From Staff Reports Fourteen-year ve...

• Guest viewpoint/Robert Malt: Our message is being heard; help still needed to win Nov. 8

  Created: Saturday, 05 November 2011 16:50

   Robert Malt EDITOR’S NOTE: Malt is executive director of STOP — Sales Tax Opposition Partnership — and lives in Arden. • Many of you have been working hard, putting out signs, handin...

• Advide Goddess: ëJoe Blackberryí feels more comfortable breaking up via texting

  Created: Saturday, 05 November 2011 16:16

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon This girl I’ve been dating for a couple months really likes me, but I’m not feeling it. Because we’ve done a lot of texting, I’m thinking of breaking u...

• Having the time of their lives

  Created: Wednesday, 05 October 2011 16:11

  Students with the Asheville Ballet & Dance Company perform a routine during the Dirty Dancing 2011 Festival Sept. 16-18 at Lake Lure. Hundreds of people attended the second annual celebration of the film “Dirty Dancing,” where some scene...

• Extreme weather termed climate change in action

  Created: Wednesday, 05 October 2011 16:03

  Derek “Deke” Arndt speaks at A-B Tech during a Sept. 22 seminar.. From Staff Reports A-B Tech’s Institute for Climate Education explored recent exreme weather trends during a Sept. 22 semi...

• Castroís daughter rips dictatorís communist regime in Cuba

  Created: Wednesday, 05 October 2011 15:59

  Alina Fernandez By JOHN NORTH The daughter of Cuban communist revolutionary Fidel Castro interspersed vignettes of her personal experiences as a toddler and a teenager, with her recollections of her father,...

• Planet's Opinion: Memo to governor: ëWhoa, Nellie!í

  Created: Wednesday, 05 October 2011 15:55

  We hope North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue either steps down or chooses not to run for another term in office — as we fear she might try to change the rules, or relax them, so that she could serve as governor-for-life. To put it kindly, Perdue ut...

• Is Perry ëroastí in North Carolina?

  Created: Wednesday, 05 October 2011 15:53

    D.G. Martin CHAPEL HILL — “After what he said about our barbecue, he is a dead duck in North Carolina.” A Democrat was celebrating the report that Texas Gov. Rick Perry once made a dispar...

• On the left - The Progressive-Libertarian: I-26 Connector ëacceleratedí

  Created: Wednesday, 05 October 2011 15:52

    Cecil Bothwell On Sept. 7, Gov. Beverly Perdue announced that several highway loop projects would be accelerated, thanks to infusion of federal funds, and reduced real estate and construction costs due to t...

• Letters to the Editor: October, 2011

  Created: Wednesday, 05 October 2011 15:50

  Political prostitution, procrastination decried Political prostitution and proscrastination are two of our cultures’ greatest dangers. Decisions made and acted upon, by those in power, reflective of financial rewards and enhanced power ...

• On the right The Candid Conservative: Moral courage personified

  Created: Wednesday, 05 October 2011 15:35

    Carl Mumpower Nobel Prize-winner Ivar Giaever was once an Obama mascot.  In 2008, he endorsed him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Things change — especially for independent thinkers with moral c...