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UPDATED: N.C. Department of Education’s Spread Sheet for the Rowan-Salisbury...
RFP Staff/N.C. Department of Education ♦ Here is an updated and much easier to read version of the N.C. Department of Education’s spread sheet showing the graded school performance assessments for each...
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N.C. Sen. Phil Berger Statement on Public School Grades
Press Release Raleigh, N.C. – Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) issued the following response Thursday regarding the release of 2013-2014 school performance grades for North Carolina Public...
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“Net Neutrality” and City Hall’s Recent Delusions about Fibrant’s Expansion...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ According to Salisbury’s “grapevine” city council has developed some colorful delusions about FCC chairman Tom Wheeler recent ideas on pruning away state laws regulating...
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Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education Meets 4 P.M. February 9th at 314 N. Ellis...
RFP Staff ♦ Rowan Salisbury Board of Education Meets Monday at 4 P.M. February 9th at 314 N. Ellis Street in Salisbury, N.C. For a more detailed description of the various topics listed in the agenda,...
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Net Neutrality: Congress Slow to Agree on Internet Regulation
CED Magazine/A.P. Net Neutrality: Congress Slow to Agree on Internet Regulation: http://www.cedmagazine.com/news/2015/02/congress-slow-to-agree-on-internet-regulation
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Another Key to Salisbury, N.C.’s Struggles with Economic Development: Per...
Steve Mensing, Editor/RFP Research ♦ Is anyone is still wondering why businesses and retail avoid setting up shop in Salisbury, N.C. and why economic development appears at a standstill? Consider the...
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Learn about “Researching Your Confederate Ancestors” at the Rowan Public...
Public Announcement ♦ Rowan Rifles SCV Camp 405 will present a program on “Researching Your Confederate Ancestors” on Wednesday, February 11th at 6:30 pm. in the Stanback Room of the Rowan Public...
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Salisbury Police Department’s MOST WANTED List
Salisbury Police Department, Salisbury, N.C. ♦ Salisbury Police Department’s MOST WANTED list:
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NCDOT’s Statewide Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan
NCDOT.Gov ♦ NCDOT’s Statewide Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan: http://www.ncdot.gov/bikeped/planning/walkbikenc/
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Salisbury, N.C.’s Last RadioShack, at 1301 E. Innes Street, Closes on...
RFP Staff ♦ Salisbury’s last RadioShack, at 1301 E. Innes Street, closes on February 28th at part of its company’s bankruptcy filing. Last year Salisbury’s other RadioShack ceased operations at the...
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Accepting the Reality of Salisbury, N.C.’s Broken City Schools and Changing...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ Those who read the Rowan Free Press since we started in 2012 were not shocked when they learned last Thursday’s about the Rowan-Salisbury School System’s performance...
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Rowan County Democratic Cat Fight: Constance Johnson Squares Off with Valeria...
RFP Staff ♦ Constance Johnson, a Rowan County Democrat, not afraid to toss her hat in any political ring or speak up for her favorite causes, stirred things up on Facebook yesterday with Valeria Levy,...
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The Highlights of Yesterday’s Rowan-Salisbury School’s Board of Education...
RFP Staff ♦ The Highlights of Yesterday’s Rowan-Salisbury School’s Board of Education Meeting: • The Director of Technology Candace Salmon-Hosey told the Board of Education they would learn of the...
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The Day of A La Carte TV is Arriving. Sling TV is Available Now!
CED Magazine ♦ The Day of A La Carte TV is arriving. Sling TV is available to everyone and with it comes an increasingly impressive array of TV channels previously only available from cable and...
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Porky’s BBQ at 819 Jake Alexander S. in Salisbury, N.C. Closed Today
RFP Staff ♦ Another one bites the dust in the City of Doom: Porky’s BBQ on Jake Alexander S. in Salisbury, N.C. closed its doors forever this morning. The BBQ’s staff told an outrider for the Rowan...
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Gov. McCrory Proclaims: “Downtown Salisbury is Now a “Destination.”
Old Salisbury Visuals ♦ Gov. Pat McCrory Proclaims: “Downtown Salisbury is Now a “Destination.”
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A Bicyclist Was Killed Trying to Outrace an Amtrak Train to a Crossing on...
RFP Staff ♦ An unidentified male bicyclist was struck and killed by a high-speed Amtrak “Carolinian” passenger train when he attempted to outrace the train to a rail crossing on East 11th Street near...
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Speaker Rep. Tim Moore on N.C. House Passage of Eminent Domain Bill
Press Release ♦ Raleigh, NC – Today, the North Carolina House of Representatives passed HB 3, the Eminent Domain Bill, to a vote of 113-5. Speaker Tim Moore (R-Cleveland) issued the following statement...
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The Equal Justice Initiative Report “Lynching in America: Confronting the...
Press Release ♦ The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) today released Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, which documents EJI’s multi-year investigation into lynching in twelve...
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Rowan County Commissioners Meet on 6 P.M. Monday, February 16th at County...
RFP Staff ♦ The Rowan County Commissioners meet at 6 p.m. at the County administration building at 130 West Innes Street in Salisbury, N.C. ROWAN COUNTY COMMISSION AGENDA Call to Order Invocation •...
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