Steve Mensing, Editor

♦ This morning I wanted to laud a “caring neighbor” who we will keep anonymous in Rockwell, N.C. who took it upon themselves to “drop the dime” on a major league drug house in their neighborhood. This person didn’t hide behind a tree and complain–they took action and sent everybody and anybody emails about this “junk” house where heroin and meth was allegedly peddled. We got the email below and we talked to our sources at two law enforcement agencies. It got back to us that they were aware of the alleged drug sales going on at 375 Nazareth Home Road and that investigations were already underway. Super.

Folks its long overdue that persons need to step out and make those very important phone calls to close “junk palaces” and spots that spawn crime whether its in the County or Salisbury. Anonymous tips to law enforcement agencies and Salisbury-Rowan Crime Stoppers can save lives.

The Letter that sank the alleged “junk palace” at 375 Nazareth Home Road:

From XXXXXXXX

We are attempting to alleviate our neighborhood of an ongoing problem and are asking for assistance. There is a home at 375 Nazareth Home Road in Rockwell that we believe should be condemned as a public nuisance. All of the following has occurred in the last two years along with other incidents.

At this residence there have been three deaths by overdose in less than a year per Chief Bost and SIU agent Kevin Black. One heroin overdose resulting in the death of Marshall Andrew Eagle on 06/30/2015.
There was a meth lab operating there resulting in a “Bust” on 2/25/2014. The house and its occupants remained established there.
On June 30th of 2014, Brittany Thomas was arrested there on a probation violation and possession of drug paraphernalia.
In July of 2015, a stolen truck was recovered at this address..
On 03/19/2016, 2 people were arrested for “shooting-up “heroin in an abandoned building (owned by Johnny Brown) beside of this residence.
On 03/25/2016, Tracie Moss was charged with possession of heroin, possession of a schedule IV controlled substance and larceny.
On 05/16/2016, Matthew Ball was charged with felony larceny here.
There have been many more arrests on record as having occurred in the “300 Block” of Nazareth Children’s Home Road.
The home is owned by Sharon Solomon who lives at 1546 Government St. Ponce De Leon, Florida. The resident, Grady Edward Austin, is well known to local law enforcement. Law enforcement seems disinterested in removing the occupants, condemning the property or any other action to dissuade this situation.
This residence is within 500 yards of Nazareth Children’s Home and the YMCA.

So far the people we have contacted are:
Pat McCrory- Governor
Roy Cooper- Attorney General
Mike Caskey- County Commissioner
Kevin Black-SBI
Omar Queshi- ALE
Chief Bost- Rockwell Police
Brandy Cook- Salisbury assistant DA
Beaufort Taylor-Mayor of the town of Rockwell
The National Coalition for Harm Reduction

Can no one find a way to protect us ?

Thank you for any replies, XXXXXXXX

375 Nazareth Home Road:

Todd Paris, RFP Staff Writer and Salisbury Attorney

♦ Recently I read a “Special” to the “Salisbury Fishwrapper” where Salisbury City Councilman David Post responded to an article by Danny McComas and David Young entitled “A Bipartisan Way Forward on broadband.”  The dispute is over the NC Anti-broadband Statute.

The recent history is clear. When a few municipalities started building broadband networks several years back, TWC lobbied the NC legislature for a law that would prohibit municipalities from erecting and operating their own broadbands. The Act passed, but those municipalities already having them or that were under construction, like Salisbury lobbied for an exemption from the Act in exchange for being limited to not expanding beyond their city limits. This was just an exercise of raw political power and it was a close thing for Salisbury, who could have had their network shut down and been forced to “eat” tens of millions of dollars for an essentially “useless” thing.  Subsequently, the FCC ruled this Act unenforceable and the matter is on appeal.

http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H129v7.pdf

I have a great deal of respect for fellow attorney David Post, who after he was elected, forced incumbents Maggie Blackwell, Karen Alexander and Brian Miller to drop the farce that Fibrant was making a “modest profit” and reveal it consistently losing $3 plus million dollars per year since its inception.

This year the Council sent Mr. Post to the Broadband Convention instead of Maggie Blackwell and that after he obtained his “free water bottle and tote bag” it appears that he returned with a much rosier picture of the city’s record setting financial debacle.

Even if the “Anti-Broadband Bill” never passed, the return of on investment for expanding the network is so lengthy that Fibrant would have not had sufficient funds to expand into the county anyway and Salisbury’s taxpayers and water bill payers would’ve been put on the hook this alleged “utility”.  The truth of this statement is proven by the fact that Spencer offered to allow Fibrant to expand into Spencer as long as they did not “cherry pick” only the best neighborhoods. This offer was rejected.

With a $3  plus million plus per year Fibrant deficit coming out of the general fund and this massive  sum being taken away from police, fire, water and sewer, streets and other necessary infrastructure, there is no money to expand into the county. Any argument that Fibrant is failing because it was restricted to Salisbury City limits is specious at best.

While the Broadband Conference might’ve revealed instances of isolated municipalities that spent large sums of money on losing ventures to bring the internet to otherwise un-served towns and thereby counting these systems as “necessary” utilities that is not the case with Salisbury who has multiple providers offering many different options.  Lest we forget TWC Maxx now gobbled up by Charter Spectrum, AT&T Gigapower, DirecTV, Dish, MagicJack and so forth.

Fibrant was a terrible business decision. The only persons who made money off of it were its employees, Mayor Karen Alexander, (who made hundreds of thousands of dollars from designing and being the project Manager of the Fibrant Building going millions over-budget) and Atlantic Engineering who apparently completed it in such a slip-shod fashion that the City is now suing them.

At this point, having weathered the worst of the recession with very conservative budgets in response to a Local Government Commission warning letter to Salisbury on low reserves, revenues were starting to recover. However instead of returning Salisbury Police Department to 2007 manpower levels, fixing our streets or working on the city-wide violence and crime, this money is just flowing into the $3 plus million dollar per year Fibrant deficit.

I fear that Council incumbents Blackwell, Alexander and Miller have co-opted Mr. Post into hooking his wagon to a debacle he neither supported nor voted for.

It would take about 3,000 more “Fiber to the home” subscribers to make Fibrant break even with present market saturation and therefore it becomes impossible to erase the 3 million plus annual deficits until the Certificates of  Participation are paid for 15 years hence. Fibrant’s growth rate flattened out and it is now on a “churn cycle.” The three thousand subscribers needed to break even are impossible with a flat growth rate.  An now Fibrant is staring  fearfully at Charter Spectrum (the consumer-oriented Monster who swallowed TWC and Bright House and who has battered AT&T, Century Link, and countless other broadband outfits into submission by underselling them without contracts and providing outstanding service)  Do we see a $4 to $5 Million deficit ahead for Fibrant when the Charter Spectrum predator pounces on Fibrant for an easy meal?

Mayor Karen Alexander and Mayor Pro-Tem Maggie Blackwell need to take the lead in defending Fibrant. It would appear they don’t want to be soiled by doing so, so they watch and take advantage of David Post’s eagerness to soil himself among fiscally wise Salisbury voters.

Fibrant in the never-ending removal process of rotted out cheap fiber optic before another system-wide collapse:

Tuffy the Cat, Death Row

♦ From “Friends of the Rowan County Shelter Animals” on Facebook: “URGENT! We have 31 cats that are due out by 4pm.  8 of these are past due from Friday. Please share in hopes to get adopted or finding a rescue to save them. 50% of the adults in the front rooms.”

RFP Staff

♦ Timothy Paul Wiseman, Jr., 24, a breaking and entering artist and convicted felon from Salisbury, had the misfortune of being pulled over by the Salisbury Police in the wee hours of Friday morning near the corner of East Cemetery and  North Shaver Streets.  Allegedly resisting at first, Wiseman was shortly subdued and handcuffed.  A search allegedly showed Wiseman possessed a quantity of heroin and a handgun prohibited for felons.  Bad luck and trouble.

The intersection of East Cemetery and North Shaver Streets in Salisbury:

Wiseman was charged with resist/delay/obstruct a public officer (misdemeanor), weapons possession by a felon of firearms (misdemeanor), possession with intent to manufacture/sell/deliver a controlled substance schedule I (felony), maintain dwelling/vehicle for a controlled substance (misdemeanor), and possession of drug paraphernalia (misdemeanor). Under a secured $40,000 bond, Wiseman remains in the Rowan County Detention Center.

Timothy Paul Wiseman, Jr.:

Timothy Paul Wiseman’s Previous Record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=1202392&searchLastName=wiseman&searchFirstName=Timothy&searchMiddleName=p&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

Public Announcement

♦ A Candlelight vigil will be held in Salisbury, N.C. Wednesday to remember and honor those who tragically lost their lives in Orlando during a terrorist attack on a LGBT nightclub.

The vigil, promoted by Salisbury Pride and Tamara Sheffield, will be held between 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. on the 200 block of East Kerr Street which will be closed between Lee and Depot Streets.

A Red Cross bloodmobile will be on hand to collect blood donations.

CharterInitiative.Org

♦ On Friday afternoon, the NC Supreme Court upheld the ruling of the Court of Appeals that Cleveland County Schools must pay a share of disputed funds to three area charter schools. Former Charlotte mayor Richard Vinroot, partner at Charlotte-based law firm Robinson Bradshaw, argued on behalf of the charter schools, with Amanda Pickens appearing on brief. According to Robinson Bradshaw, this was one of six cases heard during a special session at the historic Burke County courthouse in Morganton – the first time the Supreme Court of North Carolina met there since before the Civil War.

The Supreme Court decision affirms a trial verdict that the Cleveland County school system had improperly classified money as “restricted” and failed to share that money with students and families attending charter schools in the state of North Carolina. Because that moneys was available to K-12 students in state district schools, the court has ruled they must be shared equally on a per-pupil basis. According to the John Locke Foundation, the Appeals Court majority agreed with the trial judge in rejecting the school system’s arguments.

Representative Paul (Skip) Stam, Speaker Pro-Tempore of the North Carolina House of Representatives applauds the North Carolina Supreme Court decision saying that it “is a correct ruling”. As strong advocates for school choice, CSI believes students and their parents have a choice when it comes to education, and the decision made on Friday by the higher courts makes it a good day for school choice, and for the charter school system here in the Tar Heel state.

The positive ruling by the supreme court may pave the way for the North Carolina General Assembly to pass House Bill 539, which is slated to be voted on in the current short session addressing more equitable funding for the states charter schools. On average the schools have 15%-20% of their funding going to cover rent or mortgage expenses, which district schools have none as the county provides facilities rent free. So even with this additional funding, charters will still be at 80%-85% maximum funding, rather than the current average of 70% of overall funding.

For more information on the Charter School Initiative, go to https://www.facebook.com/charterschoolinitiative/

For questions, email info@charterinitiative.org

For more information on HB-539 go to: http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H539v3.pdf

For more information on the case go to http://www.robinsonbradshaw.com/media/news/444_Charter%20school%20opinion.pdf

RFP Staff

♦ On Monday Night Rowan County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Phillip Ray Creel, 36, at a home on 5855 Bertie Avenue in Salisbury for an alleged breaking and entry on the 1200 block of Barger Road in the Rockwell area.  Allegedly Creel was allowed to stay in a camper on the property on Barger Road.  According to Sheriff’s Office sources Creel broke into an auxiliary building containing a shop and a number of tools were removed and passed off at area pawn shops through the alleged use of Creel’s brother ID.

5855 Bertie Avenue in Salisbury:

The Sheriff’s Office allegedly noted in their inspections of county pawn shops a number of expensive tools showed up linked to Creel’s brother.  The alleged thefts were then traced to Creel. Allegedly Creel appeared at Eagle and Whitaker Pawn and Jewelry in Granite Quarry to unload a ladder, a Stihl chainsaw, and an Echo hedge Trimmer.  Boulevard Pawn in Kannapolis allegedly received a stolen rotary hammer and Leica Rugby Laser from Creel.  He also was said to have pawned a pneumatic nailer at Rowan Gun & Pawn.  Mostly all quality tools.

Phillip Ray Creel:

All told Creel was charged with Breaking and Entering-building (felony), larceny after b/e (felony), obtaining property by false pretenses (felony), and identity theft (felony). Under a secured $30,000 bond, he is being held in the Rowan County Detention Center.

Phillip Ray Creel’s Previous Record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=1482949&searchLastName=creel&searchFirstName=phillip&searchMiddleName=r&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

**This article will be updated as more information arrives.**

Todd Paris, RFP Staff Writer and Salisbury Attorney

♦ How would you feel if every time some idiot got drunk behind the wheel and mowed down a group of people, the Democratic Party and mainstream media started calling for banning automobiles. What if sports cars or two door coupes were found to be the most likely used vehicles in DWI cases? Does anyone really need an automobile that will exceed the speed limit? The highest speed limit in the US that I know of is 80 MPH. We have the technology to make sure cars can’t exceed 80 mph with computer chips. Why aren’t we doing it? What about cars like the V-6 Mustang with racing stripes that just looks like a race car but are really no faster than a Ford Fusion Sedan. Doesn’t its race car-like appearance encourage people to drive too fast?

What about that disgruntled student at UNC a few years ago that mowed folks down on “the quad” with his 4X4 vehicle? Do we really need vehicles that can jump a curb? Texting and driving kills, but do we have the technology to make cell phones inoperable inside a vehicle?

What about the Boston Marathon? Does anyone really need a 12 qt. pressure cooker? The average family is now down to 1.5 kids? If we restrict folks to 4 qt. pressure cookers would it reduce the harm from “high capacity” pressure cooker bombs? If you have a big family just use two or more of the smaller ones and reload with food between them! Oh, and lets register pressure cookers with serial numbers all over them so we can trace exploded ones back to the owner who turned it into a bomb. Make it illegal to sell a new or used pressure cooker without registering it in a new multi-billion dollar “Office of Pressure Cooker Registry”.  If it saves one precious life it’s worth it!

All the laws in the world can not prevent someone from running amok and killing people. If there are no firearms, improvised explosives (instructions on the Internet), Molotov cocktails, flame throwers, homebrew nerve gas, automobiles, knifes and swords will do, particularly if the “perp” plans on dying during the act anyway.  Banning assault weapons that “spray” bullets which is a much more ineffective way of offing large numbers of human beings than semi-automatic weapons wherein the shooter more accurately points and clicks.

Let’s Ban Kool-Aid:

While we are at it, why not shut down the Internet? It has adult porn that objectifies women, kiddie porn, and instructions for creating explosives and other dangerous things on it! It might saves one life! Think of the children!

The “Nanny State” government will not work here and the extreme right’s response would likely leave this nation in civil war or a smoldering ruin that would make Syria look like Disney World closed for winter renovation.

Todd Paris:

RFP Staff

♦ City-wide violence and armed robbery continues to spiral out of control in Salisbury.  It touched down Monday again in the City’s Fulton Heights section when Jesse C. Carson footballer Garrett Lee Woodward, 16, of 411 Mitchell Avenue in Salisbury, was forced to give up his Galaxy cellphone at gunpoint near the intersection of Mitchell Avenue and Crosby Street.  The robbery occurred around 10:43 p.m.  Luckily no one was injured during the incident.

Fulton Heights, like other areas of the city, has suffered from a rash of break-ins, street muggings, robberies, vandalism, and panhandlers knocking on doors all hours of the day.  The crime is spurring many to put their homes up for sale and move out.  The Salisbury Police are largely understaffed, underpaid, and depend now on the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office to prop them up.

The victim Garrett Lee Woodword:

At this time the Salisbury Police have no suspects and have not released a description of the armed robber.

If anyone has any information about this robbery or the robber please call the Salisbury Police Department at 704-638-5333 or Salisbury-Rowan Crime Stoppers at 1-866-639-5245.

**This article will be updated as more information arrives.**

RFP Staff

♦ Video: Kenneth Lydell Fox Muhammad El on June 14th, 2016 Meeting at Salisbury’s City Hall:

RFP Staff

♦ Video: Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education Work Session on Monday June 13th:

RFP Staff

♦ Joshua Alan Nance, 32, a convicted Salisbury felon living on Phillip Drive, was arrested Wednesday at 8:54 p.m. for alleged hate crimes against two Black women: Desiree Cecilia Rogers, 32, and Taulova Maria Rogers, 19, both of Arden Drive in Salisbury. Allegedly Nance, after being involved in a scuffle over a drug buy gone bad on Statesville Boulevard, encountered the two women walking near the Brian Health & Rehabilitation Center on 635 Statesville Boulevard. Nance allegedly tore off his shirt, cursed loudly and used racial slurs, rushed the two women. The women called 911. A short time later the police found Nance, still shirtless, walking in the area and arrested him.

Nance was charged with 2 counts of ethnic intimidation (misdemeanor). Under a secured $10,000 bond, Nance is being held in the Rowan County Detention Center.

Joshua Alan Nance:

Joshua Alan Nance Previous Record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0803137&searchLastName=Nance&searchFirstName=Joshua&searchMiddleName=a&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

**This article will be updated as soon as more information arrives.**

RFP Staff

♦ Christopher Brandon Washburn, 25, of High Point, N.C., was arrested Thursday by the High Point Police Department at his home and charged in the alleged April 3rd stabbing murder of Joseph David Walker, 37, at Alexander Place Apartments in Salisbury.  The murder investigation began when the Salisbury Fire Department answered a fire call and found Walker dead inside his smoke filled apartment.  Washburn was said to be a friend of Walker an Iraq War Veteran.

The Salisbury Police were assisted by units of the SBI in processing the crime scene.

Washburn was charged with murder (non specified) (felony) and first degree arson (felony). Under no bond, Washburn was placed in the Rowan County Detention Center. His first court appearance is set for June 17th.

Christopher Brandon Washburn:

The Late Joseph David Walker:

April 3rd RFP Article: “Updated: Suspicious Death Ruled Murder at Alexander Place Apartments in Salisbury, N.C. Victim Identified as Joseph David Walker”:

“The unidentified white male body found Sunday morning during a fire call at 6:45 a.m. to Alexander Place Apartments at 632 Hamilton Drive in Salisbury has now been identified as Joseph David Walker, 37, of Salisbury. The suspicious death is now being called a homicide by the Salisbury Police Department.

A firefighter from the Salisbury Fire Department discovered Walker’s body in a smoke-filled unit and alerted supervisors. The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) was brought in by the Salisbury Police to assist in an investigation of the suspicious death turned homicide.

Investigators have not named the method of murder employed or have named any suspects.

Some basic facts about Mr. Walker:

He worked at Delhaize group (Food Lion) in Salisbury.

He received a B.A. in Business Administration from UNC Greensboro in 2013.

He is originally from Brevard County Florida and was an U.S. Air Force Veteran in Iraq, serving in the Air Force from 2000 to 2007.

Walker has no criminal record in the state of North Carolina.

Neighbors said Walker has only lived in Alexander Place several months, was originally from outside of Rowan County, and kept to himself.

Residents living at Alexander Place were both surprised and alarmed that the killing and the apparent arson took place. Alexander Place is not far from Jake Alexander Blvd.

Sources have told us that the fire in the apartment was likely set to cover the homicide.”

Alexander Place Apartments 632 Hamilton Drive Top floor:

Steve Mensing, Editor

♦ Salisbury is overloaded with broadband providers. Charter Spectrum (formerly TWC), AT&T U-verse, AT&T Gigapower, DirecTV, Dish, and Salisbury’s unrequired and overpriced Fibrant (Subscribers pay for it not only on through their pricey monthly subscription fee, but they get hammered on their water/sewer bills, taxes, and money heavily siphoned from various diminished city services like the police who are grossly underpaid and understaffed, streets repair, trash pickup, traffic engineering, and city property upkeep.

Okay, Why Wouldn’t Someone Plunk Down Cash for Any of Fibrant’s Residential Services or Even Their Business Class?

(1) A huge reason Salisbury’s city government “downsized” city employees or has them doing double duty in the survival mode is due to Fibrant. The city has a grossly understaffed police department making low wages who can not effectively patrol a crime ridden and drug infested Salisbury. The City’s bond rating was downgraded by Moody’s and Fitch who warned the city they face future junk bonding if they didn’t pay back the sewer and water fund. No far no dice.

(2) Private providers don’t eat your city services alive. They are Charter Spectrum (formerly TWC). Other Salisbury providers are AT&T U-Verse/Gigapower, and Fibrant, which can’t match speed or price with Charter Spectrum (TWC Maxx residential services). TV providers are Charter Spectrum/TWC, Dish, DirecTV, and IPTV cord cutting. Let’s not forget Fibrant’s TV and VOIP services are grossly overpriced and non-competitive. Lest we forget if you run into problems paying for Fibrant, they can cut off your water and sewer.

(3) The residents of Salisbury do not own Fibrant. Most persons dwelling in Salisbury have no illusions of ownership over something most didn’t want. We have no control over its business practices other than not buying it. It is owned by the city government and run by them at enormous losses to the taxpayers and utility payers despite city hall’s wild claims about its success in “turning the corner” and showing a profit. (Hiding employee salaries doesn’t count). Fibrant has never remotely broken even and by any rational calculations never will while they drown in the ocean of free market competition. Besides the $7.6 million dollars owed to the water and sewer funds, Fibrant still has a heavy debt and interest to pay back until 2029. A few months back the city finally fessed up that Fibrant was losing over $3 plus million dollars a year in recent years.

(4) While no one I know voted to foist the Fibrant debacle on the city taxpayers–that was left up to our “visionary” city council who avoided quorum the day of the infamous vote. The mismanagement of Fibrant during the blundering soft rollout burned out all of the $33 million dollars in the certificates participation from November 2010 to June 2011. The evaporation of funds came from buying large quantities of mismatching recycled equipment. That soft rollout swamped Fibrant’s future before it got underway. Of course city hall likes to fantasize about an utter failure being a triumphant success through the use of “Magic Math”. Fibrant was covered over with puff pieces and smoke screening just like Salisbury’s soaring 27.2% poverty, horrific city public school performances (D’s and F’s on the State report card), and the scarey FBI crime stats. Salisbury is a corpse reanimated with ludicrous publicity and spin. All American City? Look around.

(5) All of Fibrant’s services are more expensive than their incumbent competitors: TWC Maxx becoming Charter Spectrum, Dish, Direct TV, Google Voice, MagicJackGo, and dozens of other VOIP phone providers. Hey big guy if you got suckered into Fibrant you are paying its stated price and fees, but you are also being DOUBLE DIPPED by the hidden costs of your water and sewer utilities being siphoned off by Fibrant. The city finds other ways of utilizing Magic Math to rob Peter and pay Paul with YOUR money. They’ve turned your pockets upside down and you don’t even realize unless you start hunting through the “Magic Math”. Even taxpayers and utility bill payers who didn’t get chumped into buying Fibrant services are paying for it in their utility bills and taxes.

(6) Fibrant’s TV packages are over-priced. TWC (soon to become Charter Spectrum), U-verse, DirectTV, and Dish are cheaper and vastly superior. Keep in mind all the great channels available on IPTV internet enabled devices like Roku 3, Amazon Fire TV, and so forth. You get at least 20 local channels for FREE with a rabbit ear antenna in brilliant full screen HD.

(7) Fibrant’s internet services, while more stable than it once was, are still plagued by some periods of instability and a few lengthy outages.

(8) Fibrant’s TV channel packages are outclassed by TWC, U-Verse, DirecTV, and Dish. All offer superior TV packages at cheaper prices. Everyone of the big boys offer TV aps for our PCs, Apples, IPADs, Android phones, IPHONEs, and gaming devices. Fibrant just offered a form of TV everywhere that is difficult to operate. There is no reason for buying Fibrant TV. Not even the moonbat excuse of “supporting my city”. What drivel. I say as a consumer “I salute my wallet above all”. I’m a consumer–please me. A corporation or a municipal government can be equally greedy and conniving. You the consumer gets the pick of the litter. What dimdot would sacrifice their economic betterment for a city that cares nothing about them and allows cronyism, coverups, and backroom deals to flourish?

(9) TWC/Charter Spectrum, AT&T U-Verse, and Dish customers can renegotiate their prices with a retention specialist. Fibrant does not renegotiate if you can no longer afford them. The big boys acknowledge that a customer retained is better than a customer lost.

(10) It’s a fact of life the big boys possess immense deep pockets for which they can keep up with the latest technological innovations and buy quantities of equipment at far cheaper prices than Fibrant can even imagine. And if you have parasites in a municipal government they can ram up your costs. The big boys do not have municipal parasites scoring on deals. Salisbury is stuck and has no real money other than the city’s reserve funds or to slash away more municipal services and more city workers with gusto. Meanwhile all of the providers have immense deep pockets for state-of-the-marketing. Wait until you see Charter Spectrum marketing and advertising and it will be everywhere eating pitiful Fibrant alive.

(11) Fibrant is priced out of range of the city’s poor, many of whom lack computers. And the fact is most people don’t care about or need terrific high-speed.

(12) Fibrant’s grossly over-priced VOIP phone ($45 a month) is non competitive with Google Voice (Free), MagicJackGO, and numerous other VOIP companies in Salisbury’s crowded field. It’s a fact that many people are moving completely away from landlines and using smart phones at home. Fibrant is nowhere in this picture.

(13) It was revealed in a Salisbury City Hall email exchange uncovered through a RFP public information request that Fibrant hacked customer emails to get information for our rogue city council. For that reason alone many persons especially business owners and person who are outspoken against City Hall would NEVER want City Hall peeping through their emails. Does city hall have an enemies list? City Hall is well known for vendettas against anyone who speaks out against them. Gang these are cybercrimes your “vibrant-visionary” city council took part in. Check this out:

Is Fibrant Watching You? Fibrant Subscribers Beware

(14) Salisbury is breaking down fast. People here are experiencing a lack of well-paying jobs, a lack of city-wide safety where shootings, killings, robberies, beatings, arsons, vandalism, and break-ins happen with regularity. The city schools are plagued by bad end of year test grades, gangs violence, drug abuse, and regular lockdowns. No wonder people, with enough financial wherewithal are selling their houses or abandoning them. Young college educated people are stampeding out of here. Fibrant is not going to attract people to this non-destination. They can find high-speed internet elsewhere in truly livable and safer communities.

Fibrant a Necessity in Salisbury’s Already Overcrowded Broadband Field? What?

Fibrant is Outgunned by its Symetrical Fiber Competition in Salisbury, N.C.: AT&T Gigapower and TWC Dedicated Ethernet 10 Gig

Video: Todd TV–Fibrant Magic Math

The FIBRANT DEBACLE Non-Competitive with AT&T U-verse GigaPower and TWC Maxx. Game Over in Salisbury N.C.

Fibrant’s Losses Mount. Is City Hall Hearing Footsteps?

Tuesday Salisbury, N.C.’s City Council Revealed Fibrant Network Costs City $3.7 Million During First Half of the Year

Video: Salisbury, N.C. City Council Fibrant Budget Discussion on February 2nd

Salisbury, N.C.’s Latest Publicity Ruse: Becoming “America’s 10 Gig City” when Fibrant is a Minus $12.6 Million Super Fiasco

How Does Fibrant’s TV Everywhere Compare with U-Verse’s Anywhere, TWC’s Everywhere, DirecTV’s Everywhere, and DISH’s Anywhere?

RFP Staff

♦ At approximately 6:30 p.m. Friday 911 dispatch received a call from a driver on the 3000 block of Leonard Road near Bluebird Lane and the upper region of High Rock Lake in Northern Rowan. The driver reported a female body was sprawled on a grassy shoulder of Leonard Road.

When Sheriff’s Office deputies and Miller’s Ferry Fire Department arrived, they came upon an unidentified female and attempted to render assistance. The woman was dead and showed signs of being badly burned. It was yet to be determined if she died on Leonard Road or elsewhere. It is also unknown how the woman was killed.

The crime scene was being treated as a homicide. Yellow crime scene tape stretched between two Sheriff’s office vehicles on Leonard Road and shutdown traffic until 11 a.m. The investigation continued most of the morning with detectives knocking on doors and speaking with neighbors.

The woman’s identity may be revealed by her tattoos. Because of the extent of her burns it is difficult to determine her ethnicity. She was sent to the medical examiner this morning in Raleigh in hopes of being medically able to determine her identity.

A long stretch of 3000 Leonard Road:

If anyone knows of a missing woman in the area they are asked to call Lt. Chad Moose at the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office at 704-216-8687 or the Salisbury-Rowan Crime Stoppers at 1-866-639-5245.

**This article will be updated as soon as more information arrives.**

RFP Staff

♦ Rowan County, N.C.’s unsolved murders with all the known facts and photographs going back several decades. The Sheriff’s Office “Cold Case” files:

http://www.rowancountync.gov/GOVERNMENT/Departments/SheriffsOffice/ColdCases.aspx

RFP Staff

♦ Frank Larry Graham, Jr. 31, a convicted habitual felon and sex offender on the Rowan Sheriff’s Office Most Wanted List, was arrested Friday for failure to notify the Sheriff’s Office about his change of address as a sex offender. Graham’s last known address was 607 Carolina Avenue in Rockwell. In 2005 Graham was convicted of 3rd degree sexual assault and 1st degree sexual abuse in Wyoming.

Graham is charged with larceny (misdemeanor) and failure to register as a sexual offender (felony). Under a secure $4,500 bond, Graham is being held in the Rowan County Detention Center. His next court date is on June 27th.

Frank Larry Graham, Jr.’s Previous Record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=1060710&searchLastName=graham&searchFirstName=frank&searchMiddleName=l&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

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♦ Rowan County Commission Meets at 6 P.M. on June 20th at the County Administration Building on 130 West Innes in Salisbury, N.C.:

ROWAN COUNTY COMMISSION AGENDA

Call to Order
Invocation
• Provided By: Chaplain Michael Taylor
Pledge of Allegiance
Consider Additions to the Agenda
Consider Deletions From the Agenda
Consider Approval of the Agenda
Board members are asked to voluntarily inform the Board if any matter on the agenda
might present a conflict of interest or might require the member to be excused from
voting.
• Consider Approval of the Minutes: June 6, 2016
1 Consider Approval of Consent Agenda
A. Acceptance of Grant Award for Local Emergency Planning Committee
B. Proclamation Honoring Vietnam Veterans
C. Refunds for Approval
D. Set Quasi-judicial Hearing for CUP 03-16 for July 5, 2016
E. Set Quasi-judicial Hearing for CUP 04-16 for July 5, 2016
F. Set Quasi-judicial Hearing for CUP 05-16 for July 5, 2016
G. Request to Terminate Ambulance Franchise – Rockwell Rural Fire
Department
H. Ambulance Franchise Agency Renewal
I. Contract for Vending Services
J. Contract for Multi-Functional Device and Network Printers Cost per Copy
Program
K. Request to Apply for FY2016 JAG Grant
L. Construction Agreement With Shelter Guardians
M. Support All Amercian City Attainment for City of Salisbury
N. Authorize City of Salisbury to Extend Fibrant to Summit Corporate Park and
Chamandy Drive
O. Fibrant Rowan County Administration Building
2 Public Comment Period
3 Quasi-judicial Hearing for PCUR 01-16
4 Public Hearing for Z 06-16
5 Public Hearing for Z 05-16; Wright
6 Financial Report
7 Consider Approval of Budget Amendments
8 Adjournment

Additional information available in the complete agenda PDF.:

http://agenda.rowancountync.gov/DisplayAgendaPDF.ashx?MeetingID=194

Citizens with disabilities requiring special needs to access the services or public meetings
of Rowan County Government should contact the County Manager’s Office three days prior
to the meeting by calling (704) 216-8180.

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♦ Salisbury, N.C.: The All-D.O.A City:

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♦ For whatever reason Salisbury did not win a spot on the 10 All-American Cities 2016 in Denver, Colorado. While it must’ve been fun to compete, we’re certain these youngsters enjoyed the opportunity to travel to the Mile-High city nestled in the Rockies.  Getting away from home and expanding our students experiences is a valuable education.  Denver is an awesome city!

The 10 Cities chosen as All-American Cities 2016:

Asheboro, N.C.
Brown Deer, Wisconsin
Columbia Heights, Minn.
Fall River, Mass.
Hartsville, S.C.
Hayward, Calif.
Lakewood, Colo.
New Britain, Conn.
Norfolk, Va.
San Antonio, Texas