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• Police Blotter: September, 2010

  Created: Friday, 03 September 2010 04:30

  Police decide not to charge man in downtown standoff Following an Aug. 31 downtown standoff, a South Carolina man has been set free to leave Asheville when he is released from the hospital, where his mental health was being evaluated at presstime....

• Democrats to rename Vance-Aycock event

  Created: Friday, 03 September 2010 04:26

  The annual fundraising dinner held by North Carolina Democrats in Asheville will not be called Vance-Aycock next year because one namesake preached white supremacy. The state Democratic Party’s executive council decided this year the 50th Van...

• 600 freshmen move in at UNCA

  Created: Friday, 03 September 2010 04:25

    UNCA freshmen, assisted by parents and university volunteers, move in Aug. 20. Photo courtesy of UNCA College life for some 600 new freshmen at UNC Asheville began on Aug. 20. More than 100 faculty, st...

• Everything is beautiful ... or not?

  Created: Friday, 03 September 2010 04:23

  Much has been made locally about the “rah-rah” predictions of things getting better economically than reported in the mainstream news media — and that no recession is looming in the the next three years — at the 11th annual Ashev...

• Revenge ó so bad, but it feels so good

  Created: Friday, 03 September 2010 04:21

    D.G. Martin CHAPEL HILL — This November a lot of good elected public officials —  along with, it must be said, some sorry ones, too — are going to lose their jobs. When times ar...

• Letters to the Editor: September, 2010

  Created: Friday, 03 September 2010 04:19

  Sees downward spiral of these United States America as a whole has turned into a nation that breeds arrogance, ignorance and laziness! Uneducated, glorified teen and tween parents are the norm. Where has our pride gone? What happened to ...

• Is she being an unreasonable princess?

  Created: Friday, 03 September 2010 04:08

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon I’ve been dating a guy I really like for a month. He’s been in a long-distance relationship with a woman since last spring. They spend a week together every couple...

• Tea Parties jostling over turf

  Created: Friday, 06 August 2010 10:16

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports Top leaders of the Asheville Tea PAC are charging that an upstart group billing itself as Tea Party WNC, which is solicing donations, is illegitimately seeking to position itself as a group representing the movemen...

• Getting down

  Created: Friday, 06 August 2010 10:15

  The band Josh Phillips Folk Festival entertains on July 16 at the monthly Downtown After Five event. The band features roots, folk, soul, rhythm ‘n’ blues and reggae music. Hundreds of people attended the event, which is located on North L...

• U.S. economy offers no threat of recession in near future, duo says

  Created: Friday, 06 August 2010 10:14

  Tom Tveidt James E. Smith From Daily Planet Staff Reports The area is experiencing a slow economic recovery and there will be no recession in the next three years, the two economists featured at the ...

• Police Blotter: August, 2010

  Created: Friday, 06 August 2010 10:12

  William Dathan “Wild Bill” Holbert: then and now photos WNC native, girlfriend admit to killings of five, face trial in Panama City PANAMA CITY, Panama — Finding the weapons of Henders...

• City awarded $2M grant through tourism panel to upgrade Civic Center

  Created: Friday, 06 August 2010 10:10

  The Asheville Civic Center has been awarded a $2 million-dollar grant, to be funded over a four-year period, from the Tourism Product Development Fund of the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority, the city announced on July 28. The grant w...

• Shuler, Miller nearly even in bid for seat, poll by Civitas claims

  Created: Friday, 06 August 2010 10:08

  From Staff Reports RALEIGH — The race for North Carolina’s 11th District congressional seat is a dead heat — 45 percent to 44 percent — between Democratic incumbent Heath Shuler and Republican candidate Jeff Miller as the ...

• BC Democrat chief offers critique of Civitas poll

  Created: Friday, 06 August 2010 10:05

  Charles Carter EDITOR’S NOTE: The following commentary, which has been cut slightly, was written by Charles Carter, chairman of the Buncombe County Democratic Party: • This past Sunday the conservativ...

• Stop the paperwork nightmare

  Created: Friday, 06 August 2010 10:04

  The small-business sector, which is the main producer of new jobs in the United States, is rightly up in arms over a little-known provision of the massive new health care law that will create a paperwork nightmare. Specifically, the law, known in s...

• Human sacrifice: sometimes a distasteful necessity

  Created: Friday, 06 August 2010 10:03

    D.G. Martin CHAPEL HILL —  Are the days of human sacrifice long gone? Remember that story of Abraham’s near sacrifice of his son Isaac and how God put an end to that sort of thing? ...

• Letters: August, 2010

  Created: Friday, 06 August 2010 09:53

  Immigration issues in 2010 termed different from past This country was built by immigrants, those that came in the 1800s and early 1900s. We became strong and prosperous through efforts of these Americans who loved this country, not the country th...

• Party girl frustrated with introverted boyfriend

  Created: Friday, 06 August 2010 09:45

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon I love to dress up and go socialize with people. My boyfriend, however, can only smile friendly and chitchat for about 20 minutes before he seats himself in some corner and st...

• Independence Caucus founder urges ATPAC members to never give up fight

  Created: Friday, 06 August 2010 09:31

  Frank Anderson, the founder of Independence Caucus, addresses the audience at an Independence Caucus forum on July 31 at A-B Tech. From Staff Reports Asheville Tea PAC drew about 30 people to an all-day Ind...

• 2 FreedomWorks leaders to appear at UNCA town hall

  Created: Friday, 06 August 2010 09:29

  Two top leaders of FreedomWorks, Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe, will speak — and listen — during a town hall meeting from 5 to 7 p.m. Aug. 26 in the Humanities Lecture Hall at UNC Asheville. Armey is chairman and Kibbe is president and chi...