title: Asheville Daily Planet
text: # Asheville Daily Planet
  
  The Asheville Daily Planet is a free, independent alternative newspaper published in Asheville, North Carolina. It was named after the fictional Daily Planet newspaper in the Superman universe.
  
  In spite of its name, it is not, and never has been, a daily paper. It began publishing as a weekly on December 1, 2004. Due to economic conditions, it began publishing monthly in July 2008.
  
  ## Footnotes
  
  * ↑ In an article in the Mountain Xpress, John North, publisher of the Asheville Daily Planet, is quoted as saying that it would be "kind of a smashing name, because everybody reads Superman comics."
  * ↑ Planet to continue as monthly paper
  