Planning for the End
RFP Staff ♦ Sadly we all know in Rowan County three certainties exist: Taxes, Death, and Salisbury Entitlements. Fortunately, we do not have to fret over is the coming end of life for that time-worn...
View ArticleRTPP Meets Tuesday January 21st at the Blue Bay Restaurant
Press Release ♦The Rowan Tea Party Patriots will hold their monthly meeting a 6 p.m. on Tuesday January 21st at Blue Bay Seafood Restaurant, 2050 Statesville Blvd in Salisbury, NC. We meet for...
View ArticleBreaking News: Salisbury Post Purchased. Announcement Next Week.
RFP Staff ♦ According to Salisbury sources, the Salisbury Post was allegedly purchased this week. Mr. James B. Boone from Tuscaloosa, Alabama and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Boone...
View ArticleLink to Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” in PDF
Saul Alinsky ♦Here is a link to Saul Alinsky’s book popular among 1960′s radicals: Rules for Radicals, a pathway to growing governments:...
View ArticleJoel Johnson for Rowan County Clerk of Courts
Press Release Joel Johnson will be running for Rowan County Clerk of Courts ♦ Joel’s Bio I was born and raised in Rowan County, and attended both public and private schools here. After returning home...
View ArticlePictionary of Gang Graffiti: Downtown Salisbury Gang “Turf Tags”
RFP Staff ♦Gang graffiti known as “gang tags”, or turf markings, is appearing on buildings, rooftops, and alleyways in downtown Salisbury. Our city and its schools has noticeable gang activity, as...
View ArticleAn Interview with Barbara Owen a Candidate for the Board of Education
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ Rowan Free Press: Barbara, Could you tell our readers about yourself and your background? Barbara Owen: I’m a lifelong resident of Rowan County having grown up in the Kannapolis...
View ArticleSalisbury Thieves Make Off with HVAC Units Over the Weekend at Oak Hollow...
RFP Staff ♦Workers at the Oak Hollow Office Complex at 650 Statesville Blvd, across from the Brian Center in Salisbury, reported to the Police that two HVAC heat pumps were removed from the rear of the...
View ArticleVideo: Special Meeting Between County Commissioners and School Board....
RFP Staff: ♦A complete video of today’s special meeting at 9 a.m. between the Rowan County Commissioners and the Rowan-Salisbury school board will be found below. Cordial at times, contentious at...
View ArticleCommission Chairman Jim Sides Discusses Confusion over Local Funds
County Commission Chairman Jim Sides ♦Chairman Jim Sides made the following comments to the Rowan Free Press: “There appears to be some confusion regarding “local funds” used to support debt service...
View ArticleBreaking News: School Board Votes to Sue the County Taxpayers! School Board...
RFP Staff ♦This afternoon in open session at the Ellis Street Administration Building, according to sources within the school system, the school board led by Dr. Richard Miller voted 5-2 to reject the...
View ArticleVideo: Regular County Commission Meeting Tuesday the 21st
RFP Staff ♦ Highlights of Tuesday evening’s County Commission Video: • Public Comment period. • County will spend $491,000 to Construct an emergency radio communications tower, 300 feet high, on...
View ArticleChairman Sides Comments from Tuesday’s Special Meeting between the...
January 20th Statement by Rowan County Commission Chair Jim Sides ♦I want to correct a couple of false statements that continue to be made over and over again by those who are either ignorant of the...
View Article$10,000 Reward for Salisbury “Cook Out” Bandit
Police Announcement ♦ The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department are offering a $10,000 reward to anyone having information leading to the arrest of the gunman responsible for the armed robbery of...
View ArticleLetter-to-the-Editor: School Board Gang Determined to Annihilate Rowan County...
Jonathan Morris, U.S. Army Ranger Ret. & Rowan Sheep Baron ♦The police are offering a 10,000 dollar reward for some penny ante Salisbury ”Cook Out” Bandit. Where is the reward for the “School...
View ArticleWho Really Put the Tax Burden on the Poor?
NC Representative Paul Stam ♦ Third House Reading – 2009 Budget: North Carolina House of Representatives Joe Hackney Speaker William L. Wainwright Speaker Pro Tem Denise Weeks, House Principal Clerk...
View ArticleSalisbury Post Sale to Boone Newspapers Inc. will be Finalized in February
RFP Staff ♦As we wrote on January the 19th, the Salisbury Post will be sold to Boone Newspapers Inc. (BNI) in early February. We learned this over the last several days from anonymous sources in the...
View ArticleVideo: Chairman Jim Sides Discusses the School Board’s $40 Million Dollar...
Rick Johnson, Videographer ♦ Rowan County Commission Chairman Jim Sides discusses the generous offer the county commissioners made the school board, the rift between the County Commissioners and the...
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