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• Exploits of N.C.ís greatest Confederate general touted

  Created: Tuesday, 17 June 2008 12:10

  By D.G. Martin CHAPEL HILL — Who was the greatest North Carolina general in the Civil War? Wait a minute, you say, we don’t play those games anymore. You think it’s time we put aside our glorifying the horrible Civil War that...

• Tourists win 8-6 to snare 1st-half crown

  Created: Tuesday, 17 June 2008 10:59

  HICKORY — The Asheville Tourists entered this past Sunday — the final day of the first half of the season — needing a win to guarantee a playoff spot. And they did it. Holding a slim one-game lead in the Southern Division over Cha...

• Asheville to sell playoff tickets beginning Friday

  Created: Tuesday, 17 June 2008 10:58

  The Asheville Tourists, champions of the Southern Division for the first half of the South Atlantic League 2008 campaign, have announced that playoff tickets will go on sale at the McCormick Field box office beginning at 10 a.m. Friday. The Tourists wi...

• Child abuse affects all levels of oneís life

  Created: Tuesday, 17 June 2008 10:54

    Janese Johnson It has long been assumed that all a person has to do who has been neglected and abused as a child is go to therapy and heal the old emotional wounds, and then their life will be so much ...

• Shift to wind, sun for U.S. energy before itís too late, expert urges

  Created: Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:52

  Future of cars? ‘Electrics’ projected to roll out en masse soon, rendering gas vehicles obsolete By JOHN NORTH Energy and climate issues will determine the future of civilization, according to Dr. Arjun Makhijani, who spoke on Ju...

• Sound Investment digs golden oldies tunes

  Created: Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:48

  The band Sound Investment briefly put down their instruments to sing a-capella style during the Music on Main Concert Series near the visitors’ center in downtown Hendersonville last Friday night. An estimated 1,000 people attended, with so...

• Mumpowerís call to impeach Bush riles GOP official

  Created: Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:47

  Carl Mumpower From Daily Planet Staff Reports A call by 11th District Republican Congressional candidate Carl Mumpower early last week for the impeachment of President George W. Bush on his alleged failure to...

• Police Blotter: June 11, 2008

  Created: Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:44

  S.C. man arrested, faces charges, including assault HENDERSONVILLE — A South Carolina man recently was charged with assaulting a woman and holding her against her will at a local hotel. Hendersonville police said they received a call la...

• ëThe Strangerí termed competent, but despairing exercise in nihilism

  Created: Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:41

    Roger Ebert My mistake was to read the interview with the director. At the beginning of my review of “The Strangers,” I typed my star rating instinctively: “One star.” ...

• Advice Goddess: Fear of ëThe Dorkí Women urged to be firm in rejecting suitors

  Created: Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:37

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon I disagree with your advice to “The Hunted,” the woman who said a co-worker was stalking her at work. I agree she should be more direct, but what about “He&rsqu...

• Spike in oil prices needed to provide incentive for shift to energy independence in the world

  Created: Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:35

  With oil and food prices skyrocketing, along with unemployment and inflation, we urge government leaders not to succumb to the temptation to artificially lower oil and gas prices to please their petroleum-addicted constituents. This admonition foll...

• Deepak Chopra gets last laugh in ëThe Love Guruí flap

  Created: Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:34

    John North Editor & Publisher Deepak Chopra could be considered the quintessential “New Age guru” in America. What with his numerous speaking engagements, best-selling books &m...

• Letter: Election of ëIndiana Jonesí defended

  Created: Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:32

  EDITOR’S NOTE: The following letter refers to Daily Planet Editor John North’s May 21 column headlined “Actor’s appointment to archaeologists’ board undeserved,” criticizing the election of Harrison Ford (aka “I...

• Personal relationship with spirituality, religion weathers challenges

  Created: Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:30

    Janese Johnson Most relationships in our life change as we change through the years. We find that when we take someone else for granted, or are taken for granted, the relationship can feel empty and di...

• No. 1 Tourists lose 2nd straight game

  Created: Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:27

  The Asheville Tourists remained in first place despite a 7-5 loss to the Greenville Drive on Sunday afternoon at McCormick Field. The defeat was the second in a row for the Tourists (44-20), but they kept their 2-1/2 game lead over Charleston RiverDogs...

• Asheville starts hot, but cools off in loss

  Created: Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:26

  The Greenville Drive chilled the red-hot Asheville Tourists with a 7-3 thumping in front of a season-high crowd of 3,923 at McCormick Field and a local television audience on Saturday. Asheville had won three in a row and 12 of its last 13 games. ...

• As questions fly, energy expert offers answers, quotes Gandhi

  Created: Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:24

  Mahatma Gandhi, who later was slain, addresses a crowd in India about 50 years ago. By JOHN NORTH Following his address based on his new book,  “Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Ener...

• Bright future seen for U.N. despite Americaís doubts

  Created: Tuesday, 03 June 2008 12:31

  By JOHN NORTH Despite its many flaws and the ever-present need for reform, the United Nations serves an indispensable function that makes its future “very bright,” Will Davis, director of the U.N. Information Center in Washington, D.C...

• ëItís (more than) alrightí

  Created: Tuesday, 03 June 2008 12:29

  The Undertones, an all-male a capella group that debuted this past year at UNC Asheville, recently provided a lively performance, complete with some choreography reminiscent of the Motown era, in UNCA’s Highsmith University Union to a stand...

• Dr. Huff: 20% child poverty rate, aging population a ëtoxicí mix

  Created: Tuesday, 03 June 2008 12:28

  From Daily Planet Staff Reports Unless there is radical change soon, the United States is facing a cataclysmic challenge in health care in the near future as baby-boomers retire, leaving too few productive people to shoulder the cost burden, Dr. Ol...