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• Police Blotter: December, 2008

  Created: Thursday, 18 December 2008 17:48

  Theft of sex toy, panties nets probation for ex-pastor WAYNESVILLE — Former part-time pastor Scott Gillis Murray was sentenced Dec. 15 to two years’ probabtion on a four-month suspended prison term after pleading guilty to stealing a w...

• UNCAís December commencement ceremony set at civic center

  Created: Thursday, 18 December 2008 17:45

  UNC Asheville will hold its December commencement ceremony at 10 a.m. Dec. 20 at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in the Asheville Civic Center. Some 225 students are candidates for bachelor’s and Master of Liberal Arts degrees. A reception for gr...

• University to close Dec. 20 for break

  Created: Thursday, 18 December 2008 17:45

  UNC Asheville will be closed for winter break from Dec. 20 through Jan. 4, 2009. Some offices will be open on a limited basis Dec. 22-23, Dec. 29-31 and Jan. 2. The university’s Ramsey Library will be closed Dec. 20-Jan. 1, as well as Jan. 3-...

• UNCA trustees to meet

  Created: Thursday, 18 December 2008 17:44

  UNC Asheville’s Board of Trustees will meet from noon to 5 p.m. Dec. 20 at the Asheville Civic Center Banquet Hall immediately following the University’s December Commencement Ceremony at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium. The meeting is open to the pu...

• Americans should operate on cash basis, ditch ëplasticí

  Created: Thursday, 18 December 2008 17:40

  The use of credit cards to buy EVERYTHING — even for items under $1 — ranks as one of the most damaging of American’s individual financial practices. By using “plastic” instead of cash for nearly all transactions, cons...

• Letter: ëEducateí rather than ignore foes

  Created: Thursday, 18 December 2008 17:39

  EDITOR’S NOTE: The following letter responds to a story headlined “Conservative philosophy talk triggers 5 walkouts” on a Nov. 11 presentation in UNC Asheville’s Great Quotes Philosophy Lecture Series. • Perhaps I am a bit...

• FDRís dream revisited: A legacy for Barack Obama? HYPOTHESIS?

  Created: Thursday, 18 December 2008 17:37

  Franklin D. Roosevelt Barack Obama By DR. LLOYD V. STOVER I never met President Roosevelt. I voted for him once, and for a time I was a neighbor of his son, Elliott, in South Miami. Both of us h...

• Rational decision-making: donít bet on it

  Created: Thursday, 18 December 2008 17:31

  by DG Martin CHAPEL HILL — Last week, The New York Times released its list of “100 notable” books of 2008. Two North Carolina books made the list. Want to guess which ones? If you keep up with North Carolina literature...

• Physician gives prognosis during Q&A

  Created: Thursday, 18 December 2008 17:29

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports Dr. Jeff Heck spoke for 30 minutes, noting that he wanted to keep his Dec. 1 talk short so that he would have plenty of time to answer questions afterward. Indeed, questions were fired by members of the World ...

• Duo takes whack at racquet club membersí questions

  Created: Thursday, 18 December 2008 17:26

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports The two investment advisors who presented a seminar titled “A Perfect Storm” fielded questions for 15 minutes following their talk Dec. 11 at The Asheville Racquet Club in South Asheville. The advi...

• Advice Goddess: Be difficult, girlfriend urged

  Created: Thursday, 18 December 2008 17:24

    The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon My boyfriend’s from a socially prominent family, complete with a long line of sycophants and hangers-on. I apparently passed the initial vetting process, b...

• Conservative philosophy talk triggers 5 walkouts

  Created: Tuesday, 25 November 2008 07:30

  Left: Dr. Brian Butler, chairman of the UNCA Philosophy Department, challenges Kranker on some of his assertions and takes him to task for failing — in Butler’s view — to understand that philosophy involves a spirit of inquiry an...

• Lecture misses the whole idea of philosophy, prof says, citing Socratesí spirit of inquiry

  Created: Tuesday, 25 November 2008 07:27

  HENDERSONVILLE — Dr. Brian Butler, chairman of the UNC Asheville Philosophy Department for which he also is a professor, was literally steaming, following Richard L. Kranker’s Nov. 11 lecture from a staunchly conservative perspective that ri...

• It was just one kiss that left her ... stalking on air

  Created: Tuesday, 25 November 2008 07:23

    The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon I asked a guy out and we went salsa dancing last night. Afterward, he gave me a quick kiss goodbye on the lips. Does the fact that it was on the lips mean he lik...

• The Vatican as a music critic?

  Created: Tuesday, 25 November 2008 07:20

  Who could ever have envisioned a time when the Vatican, through its media, would tout the creativity of the music of The Beatles? After all, this was the British band in which member John Lennon boasted in 1966 that the Fab Four was more popular than J...

• For D.G., Thanksgiving equates with happiness

  Created: Tuesday, 25 November 2008 07:18

  by D.G. Martin Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Why? One reason is that it is one of the very few days we have saved just for families and friends. We have done a better job of keeping the Thanksgiving holiday from getting away from us. It...

• Letters: 11-25-2008

  Created: Tuesday, 25 November 2008 07:16

  China holds upper hand  by financing U.S. deficit Something to think about seriously. People of the American persuasion, particularly Republicans that for some reason still believe that they know something about economics, often say that ...

• Police Blotter: 11-25-2008

  Created: Tuesday, 25 November 2008 07:14

  UNCA Campus Police recently reported  the following incidents: • Timothy Aaron Fisher, 19, of Lake Toxaway was charged at 5:50 p.m. Nov. 22 for failing to stop for a stop sign on University Heights at Edgewood Road. Fisher was driving a 1...

• Conservative speaker fields questions, catches flak for anti-government views

  Created: Tuesday, 25 November 2008 07:13

  Dr. Al M. Iosue said that, as far as IQ is concerned, “many people don’t have much to work with.” By JOHN NORTH HENDERSONVILLE — Following his 30-minute speech that prompted five peopl...

• Fired up

  Created: Friday, 17 October 2008 18:52

  The Snake Oil Medicine Show band (above) fires up the crowd in downtown Asheville with its blend of bluegrass, reggae and eclectica at the Lexington Avenue Arts Festival on Sept. 7, while Free Range (below) performs its mellow brand of music on S...