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• ObamaCare mandate called a subsidy to Big Insurance

  Created: Friday, 06 August 2010 09:28

  Chelsea Kneen of Bakersfield questions Robert Levy, after his lectures on July 30 in Simpson Auditorium at A-B Tech in Asheville. Kneen will be attending Patrick Henry College in Virginia next year. Levy is the chairman of the Cat...

• Kat cuts loose

  Created: Friday, 09 July 2010 14:00

  Kat Williams and her band perform blues and funk songs during a June 17 concert beside Lake Tomahawk in Black Mountain. Williams, who is an acclaimed East Coast jazz and blues singer, even took requests for Southern rock. The free outdoor concert ...

• MoveOn.org sets sights on shackling lobbyists

  Created: Friday, 09 July 2010 13:59

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports A MoveOn.org event, “The Other 98 Percent” campaign launch, drew drew about 30 people June 27 at First Congregational United Church of Christ in downtown Asheville. The meeting was billed as a &ldq...

• Audit finds 3 deficiencies in UNCA financials; school plans corrections

  Created: Friday, 09 July 2010 13:58

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports An annual audit — released June 8 — of UNC Asheville’s financial statements found three deficiencies, prompting UNCA officials to say that they will correct two of the three problems, and are in the...

• Stormy weather

  Created: Friday, 09 July 2010 13:55

  A mother and her children strive to stay dry under a quilt during a sudden thunderstorm that struck about 20 minutes into a June 21 Concert on the Quad at UNC Asheville. The band, ELM Collective, was performing world music, jazz and fusion, when the s...

• Police Blotter: July, 2010

  Created: Friday, 09 July 2010 13:49

  Asheville policeman admits to sending of lewd texts An Asheville police officer accused of sexual harassment has admitted in a court filing that he sent lewd and racist text messages, according to his attorney. However, the response, which wa...

• New way-finding signs peeling

  Created: Friday, 09 July 2010 13:47

  A way-finding sign near the corner of Broadway Street and W.T. Weaver Boulevard in North Asheville appears not to be peeling, unlike many other signs. Solutions sought after $1.65M spent From Daily Planet Sta...

• Million-square-foot development proposed for Enka-Candler area

  Created: Friday, 09 July 2010 13:44

  From Staff Reports ENKA — A project in which nearly half a million square feet of retail space and another half a million more for other users is being proposed for construction by developers on a portion of the former BASE/American Enka prop...

• Henderson woman takes Tea Party helm

  Created: Friday, 09 July 2010 13:43

  Jane Bilello From Staff Reports The Asheville Tea Party and Asheville Tea PAC announced last Friday a reorganization in which founder Erika Franzi of Weaverville in Buncombe County will relinquish the chairma...

• Cato Institute chairman to speak at A-B Tech on Constitutional relevance, health insurance

  Created: Friday, 09 July 2010 13:42

  Robert A. Levy of the Cato Institute will be speaking on the subjects of “Constitutional Relevance in the Age of Obama” and “The Individual Health Insurance Mandate“ at 7 and 9 p.m. July 30 in A-B Tech’s Simpson Auditorium ...

• WCU business dean to become distinguished prof

  Created: Friday, 09 July 2010 13:41

  Ronald Johnson CULLOWHEE — Ronald A. Johnson, dean of the College of Business at Western Carolina University since June 2007, stepped down as of June 30 to become the university’s first BB&T Distin...

• Tijuana Junction opens Hendersonville series

  Created: Friday, 09 July 2010 13:40

  Tuxedo Junction, which plays music from the 1940s to the ‘90s, opens the Music On Main Street concert series June 11 in downtown Hendersonville. ...

• Sound Investment digs ësolid goldí songs

  Created: Friday, 09 July 2010 13:39

  The oldies-rock band Sound Investment performs in the Music on Main Street concert series on July 2 in downtown Hendersonville. The group’s instrumentation and vocals enable it to present songs that are rarely if ever performed by other cover band...

• Skinny Legs and All draws large turnout

  Created: Friday, 09 July 2010 13:38

  The band Skinny Legs and All, with members ages 14 to 19, drew several hundred people to an outdoor performance of blues and soul music last Saturday evening in the Concert in the Park series at Biltmore Town Square Park, just outside Brixx Wood-Fired P...

• Motown Blue unleashes soul beside the lake

  Created: Friday, 09 July 2010 13:37

  The group Motown Blue performs July 1 during the weekly Park Rhythms Concert series beside Lake Tomahawk in Black Mountain. The band played a number of rhythm and blues classics, including Rufus Thomas’ 1964 hit, “Walking the Dog.&rdq...

• Steel band rocks UNCA concert series

  Created: Friday, 09 July 2010 13:35

  Daily Planet Staff Photos The steel drum sounds of Pan Jive were featured during UNC Asheville’s Concerts on the Quad concert series, drawing nearly 2,000 people to the free event on the night of June 28. Pan Jive steel band has been en...

• Daily Planets Staff Photos Westsound band offers sweet soul

  Created: Friday, 09 July 2010 13:13

    Daily Planets Staff Photos Westsound of Asheville performed rhythm and blues “groove” music during the Park Rhythms Concert series on the evening of June 24 on a stage adjoining Lake Tomahawk in Black Mountain. Hundreds of p...

• Congress disincentivizes hiring

  Created: Friday, 09 July 2010 12:55

  Are private employers in the United States on strike? It appears they clearly are — and for good reason. As in Ayn Rand’s magnum opus, “Atlas Shrugged,” the producers have had it with supporting this country’s bur...

• If ëScoutí had been a Klansmanís daughter

  Created: Friday, 09 July 2010 12:53

    D.G. Martin CHAPEL HILL —  Fifty years ago, Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mocking Bird” gave us a sympathetic hero who seemed to stand up against the worst features of our region&rsqu...

• Letters to the Editor: July, 2010

  Created: Friday, 09 July 2010 12:51

  Contrary to media reports voting termed ‘smog brown Media reports about Asheville City Council and its alleged renewed support of new sidewalk construction have it all wrong. Council did nothing to increase sidewalk funds on June 22; ra...