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Videos: Salisbury’s Main Street: Ghost Town, USA

RFP Staff ♦Salisbury’s Main Street offers a vibrant corn-u-copia of urban decay, vacancies, wiggeries, junktique, bric-a-brac, consignment shopping, and well NO people.  Since April 2012 when the...

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Letter-to-the-Editor: Thank You County Commissioners for Your Many...

Will McCubbins, China Grove, NC ♦I take great pride in the extraordinary accomplishments of our Rowan County Commissioners, especially in Chairman Jim Sides, Vice-Chairman Craig Pierce, and Mike...

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Crowd Swells to about 3,000 at March on Salisbury Prayer Rally Monday Evening

RFP Staff ♦An estimated crowd swelled to about 3,000 on both sides of West Innes and wrapped around both Main Street and Church Streets in Downtown Salisbury by 7 pm.  Cars and busloads of Bible...

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Video: Monday Rowan County Commission Meeting. Jon Barber Faces Possible Censure

RFP Staff ♦With a rally crowd approaching 3,000 outside on Monday evening, the Rowan County Commission chambers were filled to overflow.  Of special note was the public commentary period filled with...

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Yesterday’s Public Commentary Directed at “Commissioner” Jon Barber

Jonathan Morris, U.S. Army Ranger Ret., Rowan County Sheep Baron ♦Yesterday’s Public Commentary delivered to “Commissioner” Jon Barber: One of our County Commissioners appeared at the September 3rd...

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Fess Up Jonny–They Might Go Easier on You: A Cartoon by Marina Bare

Marina Bare, Artist ♦

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Video: The Salisbury Phenomena: Willful Blindness

Margaret Heffernan, TED Talks ♦The Dangers of “Willful Blindness”:

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First City Council Candidate Forums Offers Little Hope for Salisbury

Chuck Hughes, Board of Education ♦It is sad that the first city council candidate debate was focused on the County Commissioners rather than the city’s multiple financial problems including, but not...

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Letter-to-the Editor: Salisbury Tries to Take Advantage of County Taxpayers

Lynette Poole, Faith ♦My husband and I and most of my neighbors are sick and tired of moochers in Salisbury trying to take advantage of us in anyway they possibly can.  We don’t want to build them a...

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Starbucks Knuckles Under to the Anti-Gun Lobby.

Steve Mensing, Editor Yesterday it was reported that Starbucks partially buckled to the anti-gun lobby by asking customers now not to bring guns into their stores.  They added that their customer...

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Veterans Deserve Better…Just Not in Rowan

Rodney Cress, Veteran Advocate, Salisbury, NC ♦For more than 20 years I’ve done veteran advocacy work for anyone who calls. I have received numerous awards for my efforts.  In the past 4 years my work...

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Letter-to-the Editor: A Muslim Woman Feels “Uninvited” to a County...

Rick Johnson, Salisbury, NC ♦LETTER TO THE EDITOR Last Monday several thousand citizens attended a rally to support our county commissioners and their decision to Pray in Jesus’ Name.   One individual...

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“A Week in Politics” Now Broadcast on Saturdays on WRNA FM and WRKB AM

Press Release: ♦”A Week in Politics”, a weekly radio show on local, state, and national politics, is now broadcast on Saturday mornings at 11 am.  Appearing will be host Jeff Morris, Rep. Carl Ford,...

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Video: Monday’s March on Salisbury: Rally for Prayer in Salisbury, NC

Rick Johnson, Videographer ♦Here is an outstanding 48 minute video of last Monday’s “March on Salisbury: Rally for Prayer” in Salisbury, NC where an estimated 3,000 folks showed their support for...

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Letter-to-the-Editor: Unwelcomed and Offended by the County Commissioners?

Miriam Robinson, Salisbury ♦To the Editor: I chuckle whenever I see the amateurish political chicanery employed by the “Concerned Citizens of Rowan” in their quest to smear the county commissioners....

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Schoolboard Votes 5 to 2 for 329 S. Main. Commissioners Say They Won’t...

RFP Staff ♦This morning Board of Education member Chuck Hughes reported that the Board of Education voted 5 to 2 to place the Central Office down at 329 S. Main. Chuck Hughes and Josh Wagner voted...

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Vets to Receive Free Flu Shots and Veteran Services at Rufty-Holmes Senior...

Public announcement ♦Rural Health program team members from the W.G. (Bill) Hefner VA Medical Center in Salisbury will provide free flu shots and VA services at the Rufty-Holmes Senior Center, 1120 S....

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Video, Photo, and Postcard History of Rowan and Salisbury, NC

English: Rowan Museum in Salisbury, North Carolina, USA. Formerly a courthouse. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) RFP Staff ♦If you’ve never visited the History Room of the Rowan County Public Library at 201...

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Monday’s County Commission Meeting Will Hear Findings of Internal...

RFP Staff ♦On Monday November 18th at 6 p.m.the Rowan County Commission will hear the findings of an internal investigation of commissioner Jon Barber conducted by the county risk manager Yvonne Moebs...

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Salisbury Broadband Incumbents Leaving Flop Fibrant Far Behind. TWC’s...

English: building entrance at 4200 Paramount Parkway in . (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Steve Mensing, Editor ♦While city hall continues to confabulate preposterous hokum about the Fibrant debacle turning...

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