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• Fondly recalling Minnie

  Created: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 15:02

  Gerald Trimble of Asheville plays and sings a song during a celebration of the life of expert pie-maker and popular Asheville personality Minnie Smith, who died recently. A portrait of Minnie appears on the wall to Trimble’s left. The celebratio...

• Massive rock slide forces I-40 detour

  Created: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 15:00

  HARMON DEN — A mammoth piece of rock the size of a train car tumbled onto two lanes of Interstate 40, forcing state engineers to begin on Oct. 27 to plan a cleanup effort. Workers could face a three-month clean-up process in the steep, rugged...

• Police Blotter: November, 2009

  Created: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 14:59

  Domestic violence case dropped; deputy quits force Two days after prosecutors dropped a domestic violence case against a Buncombe County deputy on Sept. 30, the deputy for the Buncombe Sheriff’s Office resigned his patrol deputy post on O...

• Planet's Opinion: U.S. must now address its $1.42 trillion deficit

  Created: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 14:55

  By mid-October, the United States revealed that its 2009 budget gap had jumped to $1.42 trillion, giving us the deepest recession since the 1930s — crippling tax revenue — even as the administration increases spending in an attempt to rescue...

• N.C.ís growth brings gains, pains

  Created: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 14:53

    D.G. Martin CHAPEL HILL — “It is like you picked up the entire population of the state of South Carolina and moved them into North Carolina” This is the way Ferrel Guillory, director ...

• Letters: November, 2009

  Created: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 14:52

  Critics blasted for claiming Obama failed to earn prize It saddens me greatly to witness the unrest and protesting the recent Nobel Peace Prize awarding has caused. An award meant to honor peace-making now creates quarreling and resentment ...

• Commentary: Boone just doesnít compare to Cullowhee as a sports town

  Created: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 14:48

  Gibbs Knotts By Gibbs Knotts Some local sportswriters have expressed bewilderment at a recent ranking by a nationally circulated magazine, The Sporting News, that placed Cullowhee at No. 199 among the United ...

• Gingrich fields questions, including Obama zinger

  Created: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 14:42

  Newt Gingrich From Daily Planet Staff Reports MONTREAT — Newt Gingrich fielded an array of questions from the audience of about 1,000 people Oct. 17 in Montreat College’s Anderson Auditorium. ...

• Intersection of faith, government termed worthy of examination

  Created: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 14:39

  Dan Strubl EDITOR’S NOTE: Following are excerpts of Montreat College President Dan Struble’s welcome and introduction to guest speaker Newt Gingrich’s address Oct. 17 at the college. • By DAN S...

• Kurds compared to U.S. blacks in civil-rights era

  Created: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 14:35

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports A Kurdish activist compared what he termed his oppressed people in the Middle East with the struggle blacks in the United States went through to obtain civil rights and respect during an Oct. 5 address at UNC Ashev...

• Activist fields questions

  Created: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 14:32

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports Following his address, a Kurdish activist fielded questions from the audience for 45 minutes on Oct. 5 address in UNC Asheville’s Owen Conference Center. Kani Xulam, who addressed “What Happens Whe...

• Speakers air views on depression, monetary destruction, path to sound money

  Created: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 14:30

  THOMAS E. WOODS JR. Author of “Meltdown” By JOHN NORTH GREENVILLE, S.C. — The Ludwig von Mises Institute featured five speakers addressing topics on which they applied analysis and off...

• Anwers offered on economy, housing queries

  Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 08:33

  Daily Planet Staff Reports Two experts fielded questions from the audience on the current status of the local economy housing market and prospects for the future during a Leadership Asheville Forum on Sept. 15 at the Buncombe County Board of Educat...

• Annexation bid halted by Woodfin

  Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 08:31

  Weaverville eyes adding area between 2 towns From Daily Planet Staff Reports The Woodfin Board of Aldermen on Sept. 15 unanimously approved a resolution to suspend the process for a controversial annexation seeking to increase the town’s...

• Too Much Sylvia

  Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 08:29

  Audience members dance to the music as Charlotte-based Too Much Sylvia performs a dramatic rendition of songs by Franki Valli and the Four Seasons during the Apple Festival on the night of Sept. 6 in front of the courthouse in downtown Hendersonville....

• Future of Asheville area economy? Slow recovery projected by analysts

  Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 08:25

  Neal Hanks  Tom Tveidt From Daily Planet Staff Reports Despite government proclamations that the economy is recovering, no convincing evidence has been produced showing that better times...

• Police Blotter: September 30, 2009

  Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 08:22

  Ex-AHS football player arrested on murder charge A former Asheville High football player was arrested by city police on a charge of first-degree murder in the shooting of a man at Hillcrest Apartments. Marcus Austin Thorpe, 18, of Dorchester ...

• Extraordinaires rock Apple Fest

  Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 08:14

  The Extraordinaires, a classic rock and soul band based in Hickory, entertains with a full horn section, on Sept. 5 at the Apple Festival in downtown Hendersonville. Daily Planet Staff Photo ...

• Video of childrenís Obama chant raises ruckus

  Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 08:13

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports A one-minute clip of a program at Sand Hill-Venable Elementary School in Asheville has become a hit on YouTube, prompting a nationwide controversy over students chanting praise to President Barack Obama. The ...

• U.S. needs gold standard

  Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 08:07

  The U.S. dollar, backed by nothing but faith and confidence in the future of America and Americans, is shaky here and abroad Many are losing confidence as U.S. government spending — in a trend started by President Bush — is worsening expone...