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• Letters: April, 2010

  Created: Thursday, 01 April 2010 11:50

  Paper’s use of ‘Teabagger’ in headline termed vulgar I normally just chuckle when I read a letter to your editor that says something like, “The original tea party protested transnational corporations that destroyed local co...

• Asheville tax burden drops one notch to No. 3 in state, according to new JLF report

  Created: Thursday, 01 April 2010 11:47

  RALEIGH -- Local taxes and fees in Asheville totaled about $2,257 per resident in the 2008 budget year, ranking the city No. 3 out of North Carolina’s 32 largest ranked cities, according to a new John Locke Foundation report released in late March...

• World financial crisis triggered by greed, easy credit, prof says

  Created: Thursday, 04 March 2010 05:54

  Barbara Boerner From Daily Planet Staff Reports COLUMBUS, N.C. — For the 14 percent of the world’s population that ranks among the “haves,” the current financial crisis is “seen ...

• Bad weather slows work

  Created: Thursday, 04 March 2010 05:51

  There were some hardy souls on the construction site in Pack Place Park’s Reuter Terrace in February, but a project spokeswoman said the recent severe weather slowed things down a bit. The crew was poised in mid-Febrary to pour concrete, complet...

• Sino-U.S. relations termed mutually dependent

  Created: Thursday, 04 March 2010 05:51

  Jim Lenburg China’s economic clout rises rapidly, as U.S. declines, scholar notes From Daily Planet Staff Reports The Sino-United States relationship is central to the health of the global politi...

• Police Blotter: March, 2010

  Created: Thursday, 04 March 2010 05:47

  Suspect in two pharmacy robberies caught in Virginia A man charged with robbing two North Asheville pharmacies was arrested without incident by Front Royal, Va., police on Feb. 4. Michael Jacob Ball, 37, of Oakley Street in Hendersonville had bee...

• ëWhat kind of Jew was Jesus?í Apocalyptic

  Created: Thursday, 04 March 2010 05:44

  James Tabor From Daily Planet Staff Reports As a Jew, Jesus was a provocateur and revolutionary who challenged the status quo with his apocalypic vision, according to noted religious scholar James Tabor, who ...

• Ron Paul rails against the Fed at Jekyll Island

  Created: Thursday, 04 March 2010 05:39

  Rep. Ron Paul made his case for shutting down the Fed on Feb. 27 at Jekyll Island, where it all began. From Daily Planet Staff Reports JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. — The Fed, which was secretly conceived here 1...

• Russia keeps its neighbors on edge, scholar says

  Created: Thursday, 04 March 2010 05:35

  Yana Pitner From Daily Planet Staff Reports The good, the bad and the ugly of recent Russian relations with nearby countries was reviewed in detail by Dr. Yana Pitner on Feb. 1 at UNC Asheville’s Owen...

• Count out the Census Bureau

  Created: Thursday, 04 March 2010 05:33

  Shame on the U.S. Census Bureau for wasting millions of taxpayer dollars even before starting its 2010 population count. The money was paid to temporary employees who never did the work and others who overbilled for travel, based on an audit. ...

• Who is the smartest in the family?

  Created: Thursday, 04 March 2010 05:33

    D.G. Martin CHAPEL HILL —  “Actually, his wife is the smartest one in that family.” We still hear that comment from time to time today even though it should have been buried as a...

• Letters: March, 2010

  Created: Thursday, 04 March 2010 05:31

  Teabaggers termed twisted in defending Big Business I agree with (recent letters) in the Asheville Citizen-Times, arguing that the “teabaggers” have it twisted. The original tea party protested transnational corporations that dest...

• Aloha!

  Created: Wednesday, 03 February 2010 12:15

    Shortly after their Jan. 20 return to Ashevile Regional Airport from a conference in Hawaii, airport commission member David Gantt (in center with hand in pocket) addresses protesters and reporters as his wife Charise (right) closely observes. ...

• In tougher world, innovation termed key to profits

  Created: Wednesday, 03 February 2010 12:12

  David Kemper If business failing, ‘You’ve got to shoot the dog,’ marketing guru says From Daily Planet Staff Reports To succeed in today’s tough business climate, entrepreneurs in...

• Be bold, creative now to survive hard times looming, expert says

  Created: Wednesday, 03 February 2010 12:10

  Ron Johnson From Daily Planet Staff Reports The current trend in the government’s economic policy will result, at best, in high inflation far into the future and, at worst, the bursting of another asset...

• Police Blotter: February, 2010

  Created: Wednesday, 03 February 2010 12:07

  Sex offender makes history in social-networking case After he was charged with using social networking Web sites, an Asheville man convicted of a sex crime involving a child turned himself in to authorities on Jan. 20. James William Hollan...

• Asheville, WNC pitches in to help Haitians

  Created: Wednesday, 03 February 2010 12:04

  From Staff Reports The Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti, already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, has prompted an outpouring of humanitarian efforts by residents of Asheville and Western North Carolina. The massive earthq...

• Reset U.S. policy to boost job creation, slash deficit

  Created: Wednesday, 03 February 2010 11:50

  The come-from-behind victory by Republican Scott Brown in the special election for Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts senate seat Jan. 19  prompted a major — and much-needed — reset to be declared by the Obama administration. We hop...

• Back to the drawing boards on race?

  Created: Wednesday, 03 February 2010 11:48

    D.G. Martin CHAPEL HILL —  This time last year, most Americans, whatever their political persuasions, celebrated the Martin Luther King Holiday with a special good feeling that King would share t...

• 3 airport board members catch flak for Hawaiian trip

  Created: Wednesday, 03 February 2010 11:45

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports The Asheville Regional Airport sent three members of its board to an industry conference at a swank Hawaii resort in mid-January, prompting an outcry from citizens, including the Asheville Tea Party, and the news m...