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• Integrity, transparency? Important qualities personally, politically

  Created: Tuesday, 29 April 2008 17:48

    Janese Johnson What do all of the following clichés have in common? Walk the talk; practice what you preach; and live your life as if it will be on the front-page news. Each of these clich...

• Sports Shorts: April 30, 2008

  Created: Tuesday, 29 April 2008 17:47

  Tourists iron GreenJackets 6-3 for 5th-straight victory AUGUSTA, Ga. — The Asheville Tourists finished a three-game sweep of the Augusta GreenJackets with a 6-3 victory on Monday night. Leading Asheville (18-7) to its fifth consecutiv...

• UNCA students participate in ëWomen as Global Leadersí conference in Dubai

  Created: Tuesday, 29 April 2008 17:45

  UNCA students in Dubai are (from left) Oksana Kukharets, Madeline Jaekle, Annalisa Littleton, Mary Catherine Mills, Grace Salzer and Cassie Papaj. Six UNC Asheville students recently traveled to Dubai, United Arab...

• Chelsea Clinton campaigns for her mother in Asheville

  Created: Tuesday, 29 April 2008 17:42

  Chelsea Clinton Chelsea Clinton made a campaign appearance last Sunday in Asheville on behalf of her mother, Sen. Hillary Clinton, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for the presidency. Her visit follow...

• Earth Day rocks

  Created: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 17:19

  The crowd appears to  to enjoying the music and festivity at an Earth Day celebration held at  Martin Luther King Jr. Park last Saturday near downtown Asheville.  The event featured an expansive Eco-Village, Earth Eco Stage and a v...

• Progressive pundit urges disobedience to instigate change

  Created: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 17:18

  By JOHN NORTH Progressive radio personality and political commentator Jim Hightower sounded a theme of rebellion in addressing the national and state political scenes as he  touted his newest book last Thursday night in downtown Asheville. ...

• Police Blotter: April 23, 2008

  Created: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 17:16

  Lee Walker drive-by shooting termed gang-related by APD There likely was gang involvement in a drive-by shooting that injured a 40-year-old man at Lee Walker Heights Apartment, according to the Asheville Police Department. In the incident, ...

• The Asheville Timesí last edition unearthed for Planet by attorney

  Created: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 17:12

  Asheville lawyer Bill Slawter In response to the Asheville Daily Planet’s offer of a reward for the last issue of The Asheville Times, Asheville atorney Bill Slawter found a copy in his home and presented it...

• Advice Goddess: While you were sweeping: Most guys are not clean freaks

  Created: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 17:09

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon My boyfriend of nine months leaves a mess in my home, and it infuriates me. Although he’s otherwise a great guy, just a glass not taken to the kitchen makes me boil with rage...

• ëForgetting Sarahí sparkles as a smart, relentlessly funny, even heartfelt romp

  Created: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 17:06

  Jason Segel grapples with heartbreak in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” By JIM EMERSON Jason Segel’s penis probably would not sell a lot of tickets all by itself. Not that there’s anyt...

• CNNís Cafferty rattles China with the truth

  Created: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 17:04

  We applaud CNN commentator Jack Cafferty for an April 9 broadcast in which he spoke what we believe to be the unvarnished truth about China’s leaders and their unsavory business practices. While Cafferty could have made it clearer from the st...

• I dream of converting Asheville into a botanical garden

  Created: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 17:02

    John North Editor & Publisher I recently attended a panel discussion titled “Peak Oil Perspectives” at the West Asheville Library, during which sustainability activist Jim Barton se...

• Letters: April 23, 2008

  Created: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 17:00

  Planet’s article on rape case? A skeptic must have written it I was looking over the Police Blotter of April 9 (in the Daily Planet) and was slightly disturbed. It’s interesting how each is told in a matter-of-fact tone, even when...

• UNCA submits plans for $2 million new track, facility

  Created: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 16:56

  UNC Asheville’s athletic department recently submitted plans to the state for a new track, field-event facilities and a stadium with bleachers, all of which would cost a projected $2 million. The plans for the Karl Straus project were sent ba...

• Candler man finished 26th overall in Boston Marathon

  Created: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 16:56

  Jason Bodnar of Candler finished 26th overall in a field of 25,283 runners in the Boston Marathon this past Monday. The 37-year-old dentist, who was competing in his first marathon since 2003, finished the 26-mile, 385-yard race in two hours, 25 mi...

• Nature: Itís a powerful healer for humans in hard times

  Created: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 16:55

    Janese Johnson Spring is in the air, and the bounce for some people is back. It is amazing to see how deeply affected by the weather change we can be. A common thing I am hearing is how long ...

• Speaker questioned about campaign financing, corporate lobbyists

  Created: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 16:52

  Jim Hightower By JOHN NORTH Progressive pundit and author Jim Hightower fielded questions and allowed audience members to make statements during a 20-minute question-and-answer session that followed h...

• Despite hype, oil supply nearly depleted, panel claims

  Created: Tuesday, 15 April 2008 12:32

  By JOHN NORTH With the world’s oil reserves at peak, or even past peak, Americans have time —  barely — to figure out ways to develop and convert to other energy sources, retired petroleum geologist John Sticpewich told an As...

• All together now

  Created: Tuesday, 15 April 2008 12:30

  The marimba band from Evergreen Community Charter School performed at the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly at Black Mountain last Friday night to entertain students who were attending a conference this past weekend featuring cultures from around the worl...

• Police Blotter: April 16, 2008

  Created: Tuesday, 15 April 2008 12:23

  Woman killed in shooting identified; suspect dies A woman who was slain in an apparent murder-suicide last Saturday was identified as Itzia Iarazet Patino Alvarez, according the the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office. The 27-year-old Al...