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This Week in the House of Representatives with Carl Ford (District 76)
Representative Carl Ford – District 76 Thirteenth Week of the 2015 Long Session The crossover crunch continued in Raleigh this week. My schedule was crammed with committee meetings—seven on Wednesday...
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“Consumer’s Reports Electronic Buying Guide” Rates the Top 10 IPTV Streaming...
RFP Staff/Consumer Reports Tech Electronics Buying Guide (June 2015) ♦ In the recently published “Consumer’s Reports Tech Electronics Buying Guide” (June 2015) whose “independent testing labs” tested...
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Veterans: A Documentary: “A Spy in the Hanoi Hilton” Airs on Smithsonian...
Rodney Cress, Veteran Advocate ♦ I received an email today from a good friend Capt. Red McDaniel who was a POW in the Hanoi Hilton 5 1/2 years and the most beaten prisoner ever. He wanted me to be sure...
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Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education Meets at 5 P.M. Monday at the 110 S. Long...
RFP Staff ♦ Highlights of Monday’s School Board Agenda: • Discussion of new school start times: high schools at 8:30 a.m., middle schools at 7:30 a.m., and elementary schools split between 7:30 a.m....
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Annual Rowan Public Library Book Sale Starts Friday May 1st. One of the...
Public Announcement ♦ Friday May 1st will be the kickoff of the Annual Rowan Public Library Book Sale said to be one of the LARGEST ever! 20,000 books will be on display! Huge selection of nonfiction,...
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14 Overwhelming Reasons to Avoid Subscribing to the “Fibrant Debacle”
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ I like the idea of having several broadband provider choices. Salisbury is overloaded with them. Time Warner Cable, AT&T U-verse, DirecTV, Dish, and Salisbury’s municipal...
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“Willful Ignorance”: Facts Do Not Cease to Exist Because They are Ignored
RFP Staff ♦ “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” Aldous Huxley The Urban Dictionary Defines Willful Ignorance as: “The practice or act of intentional and blatant avoidance, disregard...
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Rowan County Sheriff’s Office MOST WANTED LIST
RFP Staff ♦ Rowan County Sheriff’s Office MOST WANTED LIST: http://ossip2c.rowancountync.gov/p2c/mostwanted.aspx
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Heroin Bust Sunday Near Food Lion on Avalon Drive in Salisbury, N.C....
RFP Staff ♦ Responding to an shoplifting call at the Food Lion Super Market at 251 Faith Road in Salisbury, N.C., Salisbury Police pulled over a white Chrysler Town & Country mini-van on Avalon...
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Salisbury, N.C. Ranked 9th Most Dangerous City in North Carolina
HomeSnacks.Net ♦ Salisbury, N.C. Ranked 9th Most Dangerous City in North Carolina by Evaluating FBI Crime Statistics: http://www.homesnacks.net/most-dangerous-cities-in-north-carolina-12384/
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Charter Communications Prepping for New Bid for Time Warner Cable
CEDMagazine.com/Brian Santo ♦ Charter Communications Prepping for New Bid for Time Warner Cable: http://www.cedmagazine.com/blogs/2015/04/charter-prepping-new-bid-for-time-warner-cable **Editor’s note:...
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Darius Jamal Smotherson of Salisbury, N.C. Pleaded Guilty to Murdering...
RFP Staff ♦ Darius Jamal Smotherson, 22, of Salisbury pleaded guilty to 2nd degree murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon, and conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon in the 2012 killing...
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Salisbury, N.C. Man Allegedly Stabs a Coworker in the Back with an Industrial...
RFP Staff ♦ On Monday a fight broke out between two Copart Auto Salvage employees a distance from the Copart auction yard at a site on 245 Madison Road in China Grove. Kabruim Carnell Stewart, 28, of...
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Senate Bill 472 “Local Incentives for Historic Rehabilitation” Advances. If...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ N.C. Senators Andrew Brock and Robert Rucho co-sponsored Senate Bill 472: “Local Incentives for Historic Rehabilitation”. On Tuesday April 28th SB 472 received a favorable...
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Police Bust Alleged Salisbury, N.C. Crack Palace, Arresting Demarcus Deshawn...
RFP Staff ♦ With the stink of low grade reefer in the air, the Salisbury Police followed up a tip that they would find “crack” at house on the 1000 block of Grady Street. Upon arrival the police...
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Sen. Tom McGinnis’s UNC Professor Bill to Be Studied
Press Release Raleigh, NC – Sen. Tom McInnis (R-Richmond) issued the following statement Wednesday in response to his proposal to help ensure students enrolled at UNC system schools have more...
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Rowan-Salisbury Schools Thanks Its School Resource Officers for the Difficult...
RFP Staff ♦ Rowan-Salisbury Schools thanks its School Resource Officers for the difficult job they do in maintaining school security. In Salisbury and County schools the School Resource Officers do an...
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Rowan Republican Men’s Club Breakfast Saturday May 2nd at Ryan’s in Salisbury
Public Announcement ♦ Rowan Republican Men’s Club Breakfast Saturday May 2nd at Ryan’s in Salisbury Rowan Republican Men’s Club Breakfast on Saturday May 2nd at Ryan’s on 730 Jake Alexander Blvd in...
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Letter-to-the Editor: Finally Salisbury Gets an Award and It isn’t Bogus
Jonathon Morris, U.S. Army Ranger Ret. and Rowan Rescue Rancher ♦ I was heartened to read yesterday that Salisbury achieved a national award of sorts by being proclaimed the “per capita” 9th ranked...
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Rowan County Sheriff’s Office Hunting for Ameer Hemang Patel, 22, Alleged Con...
RFP Staff ♦ The Rowan County Sheriff’s Office is hunting for Ameer Hemang Patel, 22, alleged bad check passer and con artist who obtained a car via a bad check at Cloninger Ford & Toyota in...
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