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• New Walmart logo disrespects hapless hyphen

  Created: Tuesday, 08 July 2008 16:43

    John North Editor & Publisher As the world’s economy appears on the verge of collapse, war between Israel and Iran seems imminent and oil prices skyrocket out of control (taking the cost ...

• Letters to the Editor: July 9, 2008

  Created: Tuesday, 08 July 2008 16:40

  Mumpower-led protest termed just sound, fury  In last month’s cover story on the protest of the Mexican consulate’s visit to Flat Rock, the Daily Planet paraphrased Carl Mumpower saying the consulate’s visit was for “po...

• Plan for condos near City Hall clears technical review hurdle

  Created: Tuesday, 08 July 2008 16:38

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports Asheville’s Technical Review Committee on July 7 unanimously approved — with conditions — plans for Parkside, a nine-story condominium building just west of City Hall that have raised a public uproa...

• A flap in Flat Rock!: Mexican consulateís issuance of IDs prompts protest

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2008 07:10

  Framed by numerous American flags, protesters passionately waved signs opposing the visit of the Mexican consulate in Raleigh to Blue Ridge Community College in Flat Rock early on the morning of June 28. Asheville Daily Planet...

• Starhawk speaks: Ecofeminism pioneer says women hold key to saving civilization

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2008 07:06

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports Starhawk addressed “Women Take Action: Using Insights of Feminism to Change the World” during the Time For Our Power women’s conference before a crowd of about 200 people in Asheville’s Thom...

• Police Blotter: July 2, 2008

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2008 07:01

  Gold APD captain’s badge stolen in gravesite break-in ENKA — The crypt of an Asheville police captain buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park was defaced sometime in the week of June 22-27 — and someone stole his gold badge. T...

• Buncombe Libertarian Party may disband if no leader is found to step up, chair says

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2008 07:00

  Bernard Carman From Daily Planet Staff Reports The Libertarian Party of Buncombe County must find an area activist with a penchant for liberty to take over its chairmanship — or the local party may di...

• Hendersonís Latino Advocacy Coalition explains Mexican-consulate invitation

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2008 06:58

  EDITOR’S NOTE: The following statement on this past Saturday’s visit by the Mexican Consulate to Blue Ridge Community College was submitted by Carolina McCready of the Henderson County Latino Advocacy Coalition. • On Saturday, the...

• U.S. protesters lack facts on visit, Mexican consular claims

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2008 06:57

  ROSA CURTO Consular in Charge By JOHN NORTH FLAT ROCK — Contrary to allegations by American protesters including Republican congressional candidate Carl Mumpower, the Mexican consulate in Raleigh wa...

• ëGet Smartí film proves to be top-notch spoof

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2008 06:50

    Roger Ebert The closing credits of “Get Smart” mention Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, creators of the original TV series, as “consultants.” Their advice must have been: “If it...

• Advice Goddess: Husband and knife: Ex-wife schemes to hijack booksigning

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2008 06:49

  It took me two years to get a divorce from my husband, a jerk I was married to for only 13 months, after knowing him for just nine weeks. (I was 38 and increasingly desperate to get married and have a baby.) I basically gave up on “equitable distr...

• Growth spurt of millionairesí club shows some people always prosper

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2008 06:47

  The recent revelation that there are now more millionaires in the world than ever comes as no surprise, given the nature of globalization that has accompanied the growth of the world’s economy and inflation. However, as the cliché goes...

• Some of lifeís speed bumps merit consideration

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2008 06:46

    John North Editor & Publisher Traffic engineers are always experimenting with ways to make the roads safer. The latest twist I read about — experimenting with fake speed bumps — rea...

• Panelists in Q&A discuss positives of being negative

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2008 06:38

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports From left are conference co-organizer Patty Levesque, Cheri Britton, Starhawk and Phil Borges. Following an address by Starhawk, she and other morning speakers on June 22 fie...

• Obviousness of racism? Itís finally being noticed by many people

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2008 06:35

    Janese Johnson If you ask people of color how much they have personally experienced racism, many will state that they have experienced quite a bit of it throughout their lifves. But if you ask the...

• A touch of the blues

  Created: Wednesday, 02 July 2008 06:33

  John Mooney & Bluesiana entertain a crowd of hundreds by playing blues-rock music during the Downtown After 5 concert series on June 20 on North Lexington Avenue near the underpass of I-240 in downtown Asheville. The next street concert will be he...

• Male-led world urgently needs more female leadership, Fonda says

  Created: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:47

  Jane Fonda By JOHN NORTH Perhaps there was a time when patriarchy was needed for civilizations to progress, “but it’s long outlived its usefulness” and it is time for women to step into lead...

• Young women keep the beat

  Created: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:44

  Wild Bodema and Chix with Stix (above) were among the performers at the first-ever Time for Our Power women’s conference last Saturday night in Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in downtown Asheville. The three-day gathering drew several hundred people, m...

• Suspect indicted in shooting death of young trooper

  Created: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:43

  CANTON —  The alleged killer of a North Carolina State Highway Patrol trooper was indicted by a Haywood County grand jury on Monday for first-degree murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon. Trooper David Shawn Blanton Jr. was shot twi...

• Police Blotter: June 24, 2008

  Created: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:43

  Woman with razor blade charged in bakery attacks An Asheville woman was charged last Saturday with cutting two people with a razor blade during a robbery at City Bakery on Biltmore Avenue in downtown Asheville, police reported. Sandra Denese...