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• What kind of paper money and why?

  Created: Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:21

    D.G. Martin CHAPEL HILL —  What is money? I asked that question again recently when I heard that State Representative Glen Bradley had introduced House Bill 301 to “study whether this ...

• The Candid Conservative: Mother Nature is a conservative

  Created: Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:19

    Carl Mumpower Conservatives delight in the clarifying lessons of nature. There are no rights in nature, only responsibilities. Nature provides boundless opportunities, but offers no assurances on outco...

• Letters to the Editor: May, 2011

  Created: Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:09

  Television observations leads to thoughts of gold  As a guy who never sees daytime TV,  I was forced to watch an hour’s worth the other day at the doctor’s office. The one thing that struck me was the advertising. Virtually ...

• Nuclear concerns spur rally

  Created: Friday, 15 April 2011 12:27

  About 10 anti-nuclear activists, who began their march April 8 in Asheville, proceeded down Merrimon Avenue by mid-morning, with plans to walk to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The marchers told the Daily Planet that the procession wi...

• Activist tells how to follow inner voice

  Created: Friday, 15 April 2011 12:26

  Franklin McCain By JOHN NORTH Franklin McCain, one of the original four students who staged a 1960 sit-in at a Greensboro Woolworth’s lunch counter — an action credited as the spark to the nonviol...

• Missing evidence issue snowballs

  Created: Friday, 15 April 2011 12:24

   The Asheville Police Department is embroiled in a scandal after finding that it has lost at least 27 guns seized as evidence, dozens of packages of cash and drugs, based on audit findings released on April 11. In addition, 397 pills of the pr...

• Police Blotter: APRIL, 2011

  Created: Friday, 15 April 2011 12:24

  UNCA crimes reported UNC Asheville campus police recently reported the following incidents and investigations: • Criminal damage to property was reported at Vance Hall about 1:11 a.m. April 3. Two Goodyear Eagle tires, valued at $300, ...

• Unopposed Carney to lead BCDP

  Created: Friday, 15 April 2011 12:22

  Emmet Carney Running unopposed, Emmet Carney, a local attorney, was elected by acclamation as the party’s chair by the delegates at the annual Buncombe County Democratic Party Convention at the Buncombe Cour...

• Mitchell nips Eck for chair of BCGOP

  Created: Friday, 15 April 2011 12:21

  Henry Mitchell Henry Mitchell nipped Chris Eck to win the chairmanship of the Buncombe County Republican Party during its annual Convention and Precinct Meetings on March 26 in the Buncombe County Courthouse in do...

• 2nd-hand dealers crank up the heat; plan to get rework

  Created: Friday, 15 April 2011 12:19

  A heated public meeting over proposed changes to a city ordinance that would affect pawnbrokers and other second-hand dealers drew such overwhelming opposition from affected Asheville businesses that Police Chief Bill Hogan said he needs to return &ldqu...

• 1st ëAtlas Shruggedí film to debut April 15 in Asheville

  Created: Friday, 15 April 2011 12:18

  Taylor Schilling (center) plays Dagny Taggart in “Atlas Shrugged, Part 1,” the first of a film trilogy, based on Ayn Rand’s magnum opus work of fiction. By CECIL BOTHWELL There can’t b...

• Carolina Cinemas to offer early-bird screening of limited-release movie

  Created: Friday, 15 April 2011 12:16

  Ayn Rand In a limited, demand-based release, “Atlas Shrugged: Part 1,” the film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s pro-free market capitalism novel, hits theaters April 15, including The Carolina Cinemas a...

• Despite detractors, Ayn Randís ideas called foundational

  Created: Friday, 15 April 2011 12:15

  By TIM PECK Ayn Rand’s Objectivism is a comprehensive, organic and consistent philosophical system exemplified in artistic form in her famous magnum opus “Atlas Shrugged” – published in 1957 and a best-seller today with 7 mi...

• Asheville loses its Momentum

  Created: Friday, 15 April 2011 12:13

  Among the casualties of the prolonged economic downturn is The Health Adventure’s Momentum project, a tourist attraction that was to be located along Broadway Street in Asheville’s Montford community. Sadly, $8 million in donations to t...

• Another N.C. presidential candidate?

  Created: Friday, 15 April 2011 12:12

    D.G. Martin CHAPEL HILL —  Will a North Carolinian ever have a chance to be elected President of the United States? One of us, John Edwards, came close twice. But, as Duke and Carolina can att...

• Letters to the Editor: April, 2011

  Created: Friday, 15 April 2011 12:10

  Progressive philosophy of government lambasted One big problem with public sector unions even within progressive philosophy is their interference with the role of government as the employer of last resort. For a progressive government, anyone...

• Farrakhan is right about Libya

  Created: Friday, 15 April 2011 12:08

    Carl Mumpower Louis Farrakhan is a social predator of the first order. Like most political opportunists, he’s bright and articulate with a legendary capacity to cherry pick the truth. His r...

• UNCAís Battle of the Bands offers spring fun

  Created: Friday, 15 April 2011 12:06

  UNC Asheville’s Underdog Productions sponsored a Battle of the Bands at the main quadrangle on campus during a chilly April 2, but the bands and students still managed to have a good time, grooving to the music. Some students, such as the couple t...

• Advice Goddess: The power of least interested?

  Created: Friday, 15 April 2011 12:04

    The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon I’m an older woman (almost 50) in a six-year live-in relationship with a 25-year-old guy. The problem is he wants to sleep with other girls. I understand h...

• After heated hearing, city OKs equal rights plan

  Created: Wednesday, 09 March 2011 07:54

  Mayor Terry Bellamy From Staff Reports Asheville City Council voted 5-1 on Feb. 22 in support of resolution that advocates equal rights for same-sex partnerships. Mayor Terry Bellamy cast the lone dissent...