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Rowan Republican Men’s Club Breakfast Saturday April 4th at Ryan’s in...

Public Announcement ♦ Rowan Republican Men’s Club Breakfast on Saturday April the 4th at Ryan’s on 730 Jake Alexander Blvd in Salisbury. Doors open at 8 a.m. Meeting starts at 9 a.m. Enjoy political...

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Tennessee Legislature Blocks Chattanooga’s Gig Fiber Optic Network from Going...

CED Magazine/ ♦ Tennessee Legislature Blocks Chattanooga’s Gig Fiber Optic Network from Going Beyond Chattanooga’s Borders.  Likely one of the very few municipal broadband networks run correctly from...

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HAZMAT LEVEL 3 EMERGENCY! Chemical Tanker Overturned on Bringle Ferry Road....

RFP Staff ♦ A dispatch went out at around 7 a.m. reporting an 18 wheel chemical tanker overturned on the 11000 block of Bringle Ferry Road near Panther Point Road in Rowan County, N.C.  The tanker,...

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New Charges Brought Against Phillip Goodman, 29, for Assisting a 15-Year Old...

RFP Staff ♦ On Tuesday Phillip Goodman,29, of Crown Point Circle in Concord, was additionally charged with 2nd degree kidnapping (felony) and 2 charges of soliciting by computer (felony) after an...

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Letter-to-the-Editor: Why Socialism Does Not Work

Chuck Hughes, Salisbury, N.C. ♦ An economics professor once said he had never failed a single student, but that he had failed an entire class. The class insisted that socialism was a great equalizer...

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Updated: Rowan County Government Transparency Page

RFP Staff ♦ Updated: Rowan County Government Transparency Page: http://www.rowancountync.gov/GOVERNMENT/Departments/InformationSystems/Transparency.aspx

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Rowan County Commissioners Meet Monday April 6th at 3 P.M. Public Hearing on...

RFP Staff ♦ The Rowan County Commissioners will meet on Monday April 6th at 3 p.m. at the Rowan County Administration Building at 130 West Innes Street, Salisbury, N.C. ROWAN COUNTY COMMISSION AGENDA...

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The Salisbury Liberator: Ending Traffic Calming on East Innes One Bicycle at...

The U.S. Motor Association ♦ The Salisbury Liberator: Ending Traffic Calming on East Innes One Bicycle at a Time.  

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Mark Lewis Awarded the “City of Make Believe” Lifetime Achievement Award for...

RFP Staff ♦  Only in the “City of Make Believe” would Mark Lewis receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for singlehandedly decimating Salisbury and its flat-lined downtown. Glaring reasons exist why...

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A Program on “The Capitals of the Confederacy” will be Presented at the Rowan...

Public Announcement ♦ On Wednesday April the 8th at 6:30 p.m. author and historian Michael C. Hardy will present a program on his latest book “The Capitals of the Confederacy” in the Stanback Room of...

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The Value of Utilizing Private Developers Money Rather than Taxpayers Money...

Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ An innate wisdom exists in the value of utilizing private developers money rather than “public money” to foot the bill for economic development projects. It has long been...

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Driver’s License Demand Surges in Sunny California. Imagine the Untapped...

MercedSunStar.Com ♦ A surge of undocumented immigrants seeking driver’s licenses has surprised the California Department of Motor Vehicles, pouring in at twice the rate officials expected and...

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Phillip Albert Brown III, Salisbury, N.C. Violent Sex Offender on Sheriff’s...

RFP Staff ♦ Phillip Albert Brown III, 35, whose last known address was on 400 block of Leazer Road just outside of Salisbury, was arrested Friday for failing to notify of a change of address by a...

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How Out-of-State Itinerant Carpenters Flock to North Carolina to Score...

RFP Staff ♦ From 1998 until the end of 2014, a state tax credit of 30% for qualifying rehabilitations of non income-producing historic structures existed.  It specifically included owner-occupied...

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The N.C. Historic Preservation Tax Credits Bill Dumped in the State Senate’s...

Steve Mensing, Editor ♦  Last week Gov. McCrory and Susan Kluttz’s pet resuscitation project the North Carolina’s Historic Preservation Tax Credit bill was side-armed into the State Senate’s Ways and...

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Walter Lee Earley, Jr. of Salisbury, N.C. Arrested Sunday for Allegedly...

RFP Staff ♦ Walter Lee Earley, Jr. 36, of 112 John Michael Lane in Salisbury was arrested Sunday for allegedly attempting to stab John Lee Rhinehardt of Concord on Saturday with hunting knife at the...

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Video: County Commissioners Meeting at 3 P.M. April 6th. Only 3 Show Up for...

RFP Staff ♦ Video: Rowan County Commissioners Meeting at 3 P.M. April 6th.  Public Hearing on West End Plaza Financing: http://rowancountync.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=522  

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Living the “Grapes of Wrath” Dream: The Historic Mobile Homes and Trailer...

Steve Mensing, Editor/RFP Staff/Feral Salisbury ♦ Long overlooked by historic preservationists in Salisbury, N.C. are the city’s many historic mobile homes and trailer parks serving as homes to freedom...

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Two Suspects Sought in Using Stolen Gas Card At Salisbury, N.C. Wilco-Hess...

RFP Staff ♦ Rowan County Sheriff’s are on the lookout for a white male and white female in their 20’s pictured below in surveillance video stills. The pair employed a stolen Wilco-Hess credit card at...

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Former Catawba Men’s Soccer Coach Ralph Wager Pleaded Guilty in Salisbury,...

RFP Staff ♦ Ralph Wager, 71, former Catawba College men’s soccer coach and youth soccer coach, after striking a plea bargain, pleaded guilty to 9 counts of taking indecent liberties with a child and 3...

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