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• On The Left: A question of morality

  Created: Wednesday, 10 August 2011 07:51

    Cecil Bothwell The ongoing effort by Republicans and their allies to eliminate Medicare and Medicaid is nothing less than appalling, and their success in dragging some centrist Democrats over to their side ...

• Planet's Opinion: ëSelf-Relianceí is must-reading

  Created: Wednesday, 10 August 2011 07:49

  New England Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous essay on “Self-Reliance” should be considered must-reading for those who strive to remain independent — and critical — thinkers in today’s ever-dumbed-down Un...

• The Civil Rights Revolution ó inside and on the ground

  Created: Wednesday, 10 August 2011 07:48

    D.G. Martin CHAPEL HILL — Do you remember seeing photos of the 50th anniversary reunion of the Civil War battle at Gettysburg? Aging veterans from both sides of that war gathered to remember together...

• The Candid Conservative: We are all job scared

  Created: Wednesday, 10 August 2011 07:47

    Carl Mumpower The official unemployment rate is heading in the wrong direction. The 9.2 (percent) on the stay-at-home scale is creating a host of aftershocks. There are credible sources suggesting...

• Advice Goddess: Whatís this about men scoring with women in supermarkets?

  Created: Wednesday, 10 August 2011 07:38

    The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon Men’s magazines and blogs always have some article telling guys to pick up women at grocery stores. Really? I’ve actually never heard of a guy succes...

• Letters to the Editor: August, 2011

  Created: Wednesday, 10 August 2011 07:33

  Motown review praised; but it’s ‘Berry’ not ‘Barry’ May I thank you (the Daily Planet) for the excellent article (review of the musical “The Music of Motown” at Flat Rock Playhouse) by John North of my dea...

• WNC touted for leading N.C in renewable energy capacity

  Created: Wednesday, 13 July 2011 08:36

  From Staff Reports Western North Carolina leads the state in renewable energy capacity, speakers noted June 28 during a conference for green businesses in the Haynes Building at A-B Tech’s Enka campus. In fact, as one program attendee...

• Tailgate Market makes lively debut

  Created: Wednesday, 13 July 2011 08:34

  The grand opening of the Montford Tailgate Market on June 22 also featured a band — the Sugarfoot Serenaders of Asheville, billed as offering jazzy variety and fun. The band members (from left) are Sparrow Pants, Meshell, Sadye. Dsterloh and dru...

• How to survive in a crisis? Insider tips offered at preparedness seminar

  Created: Wednesday, 13 July 2011 08:30

   Bill Forstchen By JOHN NORTH CLYDE — Whether there is an apocalyptic event striking the nation or world, or weather emergencies and other natural disasters that seem to be on the rise, it is intelligen...

• Redistricting plan ripped in Asheville

  Created: Wednesday, 13 July 2011 08:28

  From STAFF REPORTS Mostly opposition was expressed July 7 in Asheville to a controversial congressional redistricting proposal during a six-hour public hearing conducted by North Carolina’s Joint House-Senate Committee at multiple sites aro...

• Asheville angler catches big ones

  Created: Wednesday, 13 July 2011 07:57

  Asheville businessman, John Maltry caught several red snappers in the 15- to 20-pound range in mid-June. “Fishing was great and the water was clear,” he wrote to the Daily Planet. The fish were caught 20 miles off the coast of Playa Barqueta i...

• ëMusic of Motowní show sizzles like a ëHeat Waveí

  Created: Wednesday, 13 July 2011 07:54

  From left are singers Zonya Love, Trista Dollison and Sidney Barnes, backed up by the house band, in “The Music of Motown,” which recently was performed in Flat Rock Playhouse’s Music on the Rock concert series. ...

• Council race needs candidates

  Created: Wednesday, 13 July 2011 07:46

  An election is looming for three of the seven seats open on Asheville City Council and interest, thusfar, appears to be lackluster — to say the least. As of July 5, only two people have filed for the posts — incumbent Bill Russell and c...

• Why North Carolinians love pirates so much

  Created: Wednesday, 13 July 2011 07:45

    D.G. Martin CHAPEL HILL —  Pirates in North Carolina again? Yes, we remember Black Beard. Most authorities now agree that the shipwreck we thought was Black Beard’s Queen Anne’s ...

• The Candid Conservative: Itís foolish not to be judgmental

  Created: Wednesday, 13 July 2011 07:43

    Carl Mumpower One of the favorite manipulations of the left is to condemn right thinkers for being judgmental. That judging others for being judgmental is judgmental seems to escape their keen insight...

• On the left: Change we need to believe in

  Created: Wednesday, 13 July 2011 07:42

    Cecil Bothwell The sinking of the global economy has barely begun to sink in. Numbers representing the dollar losses are so big they have become meaningless to most of us. While we are offered compari...

• Lettrs to the Editor: July, 2011

  Created: Wednesday, 13 July 2011 07:40

  Tea Party termed a blip on history’s radar screen When I read the letter in your June Daily Planet, ”Despite Smears, Tea Party termed true U.S. patriots,” the image that came to mind was the opening of “Gone with the Wind.&...

• Advice Giddess: Wifeís low sex drive irks hubby

  Created: Wednesday, 13 July 2011 07:33

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon I’ve been married for over 20 years, and though my wife and I have a very good relationship, she has a low sex drive and never initiates sex. She used to make s...

• Jennifer Buffett fires up crowd; unveils $270K for area women

  Created: Friday, 10 June 2011 18:44

  Jennifer Buffett From Staff Reports More than 900 people gathered on May 23 in Asheville to celebrate women’s philanthropy and to hear a keynote address from philanthropist Jennifer Buffett at the 7th Ann...

• Hot horns rock city

  Created: Friday, 10 June 2011 18:42

  The Asheville Horns, sounding like a mix of Blood, Sweat and Tears and Santana, perform on May 20 during the first in the 2011 series of monthly Downtown After Five gatherings. Hundreds of people showed up for the gathering on North Lexington Avenue, ...