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• Rallyís speakers stir up anti-raid sentiment

  Created: Thursday, 21 August 2008 06:50

  The crowd (above) attending the Aug. 16 protest rally in Pritchard Park hold up their signs and cheer in support of the 57 undocument workers who were busted in an Aug. 12 raid at Mills Manunfacturing in Woodfin. Below are some of the speakers at the ...

• Just a hunka burniní love?

  Created: Thursday, 21 August 2008 06:44

  Elvis Presley, as performed by Phil Urban, proved to be a smash with the overflow crowd of several hundred people — particularly the female contingent — on Aug. 15 during the weekly Music on Main Street outdoor concert series. Above, he po...

• 57 ëillegalsí busted at U.S. military parachute plant

  Created: Saturday, 16 August 2008 16:50

  Mumpower takes credit for blowing the whistle From Staff Reports Fifty-seven illegal aliens from Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador and Honduras were arrested early Aug. 12 at Woodfin-based Mills Manufacturing Corp., a Department of Defense contract...

• Burning up the stage

  Created: Saturday, 16 August 2008 16:46

  During an a capella rendition of Curtis Mayfield’s “It’s Alright,” Rick Gundersen, the lead singer of the Asheville-based cover band Sound Investment, sinks to the floor as his fellow performers playfully wave towels over ...

• Gadfly role proves satisfying, pundit says

  Created: Saturday, 16 August 2008 16:43

    Stephen Black By JOHN NORTH HENDERSONVILLE — Stephen Black, billed in an introduction as “the love child of Smokey the Bear and Kate Smith,”  spoke about the ups and downs of being a highly controversial free-lance colu...

• Donít write spoofs about barbecue, chastened columnist says

  Created: Saturday, 16 August 2008 16:36

  Stephen Black From Daily Planet Staff Reports HENDERSONVILLE — Stephen Black, a controversial free-lance columnist for the Hendersonville Times-News, fielded questions from the audience for 30 minutes f...

• Musical weekend rocks region

  Created: Saturday, 09 August 2008 10:18

  During the first weekend of August, various musical acts perfomred outdoors, including Tom Brown, One Man Band (above) at the Music on Main Street concert series on Aug. 1 in downtown Hendersonville. Below, dancers gyrate to Brown’s music. Ashev...

• Keep eye on government, new local LP chief says

  Created: Saturday, 09 August 2008 10:16

  Robert Parker From Daily Planet Staff Reports Robert Parker, who recently was elected chair of the Libertarian Party of Buncombe County, has great expectations for the local party under his leadership. ...

• Libertarian hopeful for governorís seat emphasizes freedom

  Created: Saturday, 09 August 2008 10:14

  Local party avoids collapse as a new chairman emerges From Daily Planet Staff Reports Michael Munger Michael Munger, the North Carolina gubernatorial nominee for the Libertarian Party, reviewed his campa...

• Downtown bursts with fun during 30th Bele Chere gala

  Created: Saturday, 09 August 2008 10:08

  As the 30th annual Bele Chere Festival wound to a close late on the afternoon of July 27, several young women (above) danced sensually to the beat of a group of drummers on North Lexington Avenue in downtown Asheville. A few blocks away, the Rev....

• Researcher offers ëvery positiveí outlook on Asheville economy

  Created: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 16:43

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports Research economist Tom Tveidt offered what he termed “a very positive” prediction for the Asheville economy — noting that it should weather rough economic times better than many other places &mdas...

• Yo Mama rocks out at Bele Chere

  Created: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 16:41

  Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band was among the final musical groups performing at the 30th annual Bele Chere Festival late on the afternoon of July 27 on a stage on North Lexington Avenue in downtown Asheville. Around 300,000 people — 25,000 f...

• Tweaking of capitalism needed to resolve humanityís No. 1 threat ó global warming, speaker-activist

  Created: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 16:40

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports Global warming is democracy’s greatest challenge requiring major changes in energy policies for the survival of human beings, local activist Richard Fireman told the Ethical Society of Asheville on July 20. ...

• Laura Bush presents $50K gift to Carl Sandburg park

  Created: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 16:36

    Carl Sandburg FLAT ROCK — First Lady Laura Bush announced a new $50,000 National Park Foundation grant to be given to the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in Flat Rock during a late-afternoo...

• Economy could surge ahead with gas price dip, analyst says

  Created: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 16:24

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports Contrary to the so-called consensus view of economists that the United States will suffer a recession followed by several years of slow growth, economist James F. Smith predicts — conditionally — a cont...

• Mumpower loses GOP support in Henderson, Jackson, Polk

  Created: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 16:19

  The Republican parties in Henderson, Jackson and Polk counties formally distanced themselves from GOP congressional candidate Carl Mumpower on July 23. Mumpower, a member of Asheville City Counil, recently suspended — and then resumed —...

• Questions from audience at forum mainly focus on world, U.S. issues

  Created: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 16:18

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports Economist James F. Smith, who earlier addressed the national and world economies, was asked most of  the questions during a 15-minute question-and-answer session in the Diana Wortham Theatre in downtown Ashevi...

• Advice Goddess: Fire done below: Duds often claim theyíre still studs

  Created: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 16:12

    The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon I’m a 46-year-old woman who just started seeing a 55-year-old man. He’s always telling me how excited I get him, how he’s your typical horny male, and how I’m asking for trouble if we make out...

• Mumpower loses GOP support in Henderson, Jackson, Polk

  Created: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 15:24

  The Republican parties in Henderson, Jackson and Polk counties formally distanced themselves from GOP congressional candidate Carl Mumpower on July 23. Mumpower, a member of Asheville City Counil, recently suspended — and then resumed —...

• Despite opposition, Parkside deal looks unlikely

  Created: Wednesday, 23 July 2008 01:58

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports As a crowd protested outside, developer Stewart Coleman told Asheville City Council on July 15 that he would move his controversial condominium complex even closer to City Hall if he were denied permission for a ro...