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• WCUís basketball coach to lead N.C. State women

  Created: Tuesday, 02 June 2009 08:34

  RALEIGH — Kellie Harper was named the head women’s basketball coach at N.C. State on April 16. Harper previously served for five seasons as the women’s basketball coach at Western Carolina University. This year’s Catamou...

• NCAA cuts 3 scholarships from WCU for missing goal

  Created: Tuesday, 02 June 2009 08:34

  CULLOWHEE — The NCAA has cut three athletic scholarships from the Western Carolina University football team for the 2009-10 academic year because of poor academic performance. The Catamounts finished 6-28 over the past three seasons and are...

• $3M grant to give boost to UNCA wellness center

  Created: Tuesday, 02 June 2009 08:33

  The Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation will give a $3 million grant to UNC Asheville’s N.C. Center for Health & Wellness, officials with the foundation and university announced on May 12. The three-year grant to the N....

• UNCA baseball coach steps down after 5 years

  Created: Tuesday, 02 June 2009 08:33

  UNC Asheville’s head baseball coach, Willie Stewart, announced May 27 his plans to leave the program on June 12. He is the only coach to lead UNCA to the NCAA baseball tournament, advancing to the 2006 NCAA Clemson Regional, finished with a five...

• Food shortages going global soon, expert says

  Created: Thursday, 16 April 2009 11:26

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports The planet’s population will continue to explode— from about 6.7 billion now to a projected 9 billion people between 2030 and 2050— and limits in food production and distribution systems will resu...

• Tea Party protests ëporkí spending, U.S. deficit

  Created: Thursday, 16 April 2009 11:24

  Protesters at a Tax Day Tea Party in downtown Asheville wave their signs late in the afternoon on April 15 at passing vehicles along College Avenue, across from City Hall and the Buncombe County Courthouse. Their signs express strong opposition to wha...

• Itís time to make world nuke-free, 3 speakers urge

  Created: Thursday, 16 April 2009 11:21

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports A day after North Korea test-launched a nuclear missile, Leah Karpen moderated a program titled “Nuclear Reconsidered — The Start of a Conversation” at UNC Asheville on April 6. Karpen explai...

• Police Blotter: April, 2009

  Created: Thursday, 16 April 2009 11:18

  Vandal painters deface Cougar statue at AHS The cougar statue at Asheville High School was defaced with yellow, purple and blue paint by vandals sometime over Easter weekend. The statue’s new colors first were noticed by school officia...

• We are all socialists now?

  Created: Thursday, 16 April 2009 11:11

  These are interesting times to be living in what surely soon will be renamed the People’s Republic of the United States. In its Feb. 16 edition, Newsweek’s cover boldly proclaimed, “We are all socialists now,” with a subhead of ...

• Democrats, Tar Heel basketball fans share top-dog worries of losing edge

  Created: Thursday, 16 April 2009 11:10

  by D.G. MARTIN CHAPEL HILL — What do Carolina Tar Heel basketball fans and North Carolina Democrats have in common? Their joy of winning is fading into worry about next year. Even with cutbacks, big newspapers still manage to give worri...

• Letters to the Editor: April, 2009

  Created: Thursday, 16 April 2009 10:54

  Frederic Bastiat In March 2009, the Federal Reserve printed $1 trillion in new currency, entirely untethered to anything of value, to prop up previous failures of government intervention. What will be the eff...

• 275 citizens rally against unsound fiscal policies

  Created: Thursday, 16 April 2009 10:48

  Ryan Croft mops his brow as he addresses the crowd during a rally he organized in West Asheville on March 13. From Daily Planet Staff Reports About 275 people squeezed into a “We Surround Them” ...

• Lecturer fields array of questions on ëGlobalization of Foodí

  Created: Thursday, 16 April 2009 10:37

  Gerard Voos From Daily Planet Staff Reports Following his Feb. 16 lecture on “The Globalization of Food,” sustainability expert Gerard Voos spent almost 30 minutes fielding questions from the au...

• 5K run planned to support womenís cancer treatments

  Created: Thursday, 16 April 2009 10:34

  CANDLER — The annual Conquer a Cove 5K Race Healthwalk and 1-Mile Fitness Run/Walk will be held April 19 at Mount Pisgah Academy in Candler. The event, which includes a health fair 1-4 p.m., is a benefit for the students of MPA and Asheville-...

• Tourists, Grasshoppers split doubleheader

  Created: Thursday, 16 April 2009 10:33

  The Asheville Tourists lost 2-0 in the first game and won the second 6-5 in a doubleheader against the Greensboro Grasshoppers on April 15 at McCormick Field. The twin bill was scheduled to make up for the postponement of the series opener on April...

• Ayn Randís ideas, capitalism trigger heated Firestorm debate

  Created: Thursday, 16 April 2009 10:31

  Liberty Asheville’s Robert Malt smiles as Tim Peck makes a point in support of capitalism and the ideas of Ayn Rand. Malt is vice chairman of the Buncombe County GOP. From Daily Planet Staff Reports I...

• Great Depression (No. 2) predicted

  Created: Thursday, 18 December 2008 17:59

  Economist-writer Harry S. Dent Jr. ‘Perfect Storm’ duo projects ‘rough times’ to linger into 2020s By JOHN NORTH A free investment seminar, ominously titled “The Perf...

• A high-tech fireside chat

  Created: Thursday, 18 December 2008 17:55

  Susan DeFerie, president of Asheville Savings Bank, presides at a fireside chat to discuss financial issues with the community on Dec. 11, complete with a computer screen depicting a roaring fire and a decorated Christmas tree. She said she bor...

• Worldís health termed better, but woes cited

  Created: Thursday, 18 December 2008 17:53

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports The health of human beings around the world is improving, statistics show, although there remains a consistent disparity in health care between urban and rural areas in developing countries, Dr. Jeff Heck said duri...

• Following December-January issue, Planet to continue as monthly paper

  Created: Thursday, 18 December 2008 17:50

  The Daily Planet, launched as a weekly newspaper five years ago in Asheville, will remain a monthly through the economic downturn. In responding to deteriorating market conditions, the paper went monthly for the summer, beginning with the July edit...