County Commission Meeting on Monday March 17th at 6 P.M.
RFP Staff ♦ The Rowan County Commissioners will meet on Monday March 17th at 6 p.m. in the J. Newton Cohen Room at the Rowan County Administration Building on 130 West Innes Street in Salisbury, N.C....
View ArticleVideo: Richard’s Coffee Shop and Living Military Museum in Mooresville, NC
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ Two weeks ago my friend Tom Harrell, a veteran of the Burma, China, India theater of World War II and I visited Richard’s Coffee Shop and Living Military Museum in Mooresville,...
View ArticleVideo: A Teleconference about Salisbury, N.C.’s Massive Poverty
Youtube ♦Persons who work directly with Salisbury’s poor and homeless held a recent teleconference about Salisbury’s 28% poverty:
View ArticlePoll: Joe Coladarci, Candidate for County Commissioner, Conducts a Weekly...
Joe4Rowan ♦ Joe Coladarci’s weekly Rowan County Poll on Joe4Rowan.com: http://joe4rowan.com/citizen-poll-of-the-week/
View ArticleLetter-to-the-Editor: What Can Be Done to Improve the Economy?
Steve Poteat, Rowan County ♦ “What can be done to improve the economy” is the sixty four thousand dollar question. The recent “community” suggestions from the group led by Mr. Ed McMahon and his...
View ArticleCity Manager Doug Paris Quote of the Month for March
RFP Staff ♦ Our wunderkind city manager Doug Paris, ever ready to press the outer-envelope of reality and lead the City of Salisbury to its rightful place among the forgotten cities and towns of North...
View ArticleLetter-to-the Editor: Pulling the Plug on Downtown Salisbury ONLY
Jonathan Morris, U.S. Army Ranger Ret. and Rowan County Sheep Baron ♦ It’s a given Downtown Salisbury ONLY has absolutely wiped-out Salisbury as a city with any remote future. Dream over Salisbury....
View ArticleTillis, Berger Issue Joint Statement on N.C. Unemployment Rate Continuing to...
Press Release ♦ Raleigh, N.C. – House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) and Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) issued the following joint statement Monday in response to North Carolina’s...
View ArticleVideo: Rowan County Commissioners meeting on Monday March 17th at 6 P.M.
RFP Staff ♦ The Rowan County Commissioners met on Monday March 17th at 6 p.m. in the J. Newton Cohen Room at the Rowan County Administration Building on 130 West Innes Street in Salisbury, N.C. This...
View ArticleRowan-Salisbury Schools on a Three-Hour Delay Tuesday, March 18
RFP Staff ♦Rowan-Salisbury Schools are on a three-hour delay Tueday for students with a one-hour delay for staff. Rowan County is under a Winter Weather Advisory and expecting freezing rain, freezing...
View ArticleThe Latest Issue of The Raleigh Digest
Rep. Carl Ford/The Raleigh Digest ♦ Here is the latest issue of The Raleigh Digest from NCHouse76.com: http://nchouse76.com/
View ArticleKiever Campaign for Sheriff Going Full Tilt in Rowan County
RFP Staff ♦ Brian Kiever’s Sheriff’s Campaign is in full swing in Rowan County. His six-pointed badge sheriff’s signs are showing up on lawns and are the signage hit of this primary season. Here is...
View ArticleSpotting Narcissistic Personality Disorder in Government and Business
RFP Staff ♦ One of the least common of all the personality disorders is the one that sometimes finds its way into government, business management, and the entertainment field: Narcissistic Personality...
View ArticleSalisbury Police Nab Florida Hooker at Executive Inn. Antoine Davis Charged...
RFP Staff Salisbury Police answered a call for possible domestic disturbance at the Executive Inn last week on South Main in Salisbury, NC. When the police entered room 110 they found Billie Jean...
View ArticleOp Ed: Two-Part Plan Offered to Fight Salisbury’s Poverty and Blight at...
John Q. Public, An Op Ed ♦ Under the guise of “revitalization” Salisbury’s city council talked up a two-part plan to fight Salisbury’s deadening poverty and blight at taxpayer expense. The first part...
View ArticleRep. Carl Ford (District 76) Only Requires a Single Vote This November to...
RFP Staff ♦ Iconic District 76 Representative only requires a single vote in the upcoming November election to return to Raleigh. The Emperor of Rowan County and a doppelganger of Colonel Sanders, is...
View ArticleLetter-to-the-Editor: MSNBC’s Unchallenged Hypocrisy on Conservatives and...
Ada M. Fisher, M.D., M.P.H. ♦ The ranting and raging of Rev. Al Sharpton or Rachel Maddow or other MSNBC media personalities over any move which the conservative ranks of this nation make could be...
View ArticleCity Council Considers Incentive Grants for Downtown Properties. Taxpayers Wince
RFP Staff ♦ Yesterday’s city council retreat tossed out numbers sure to impale Salisbury taxpayers down the road. Our city hall infamous for concentrating solely on an 8 block area of Downtown...
View ArticleSoul City, N.C Failed Utopian Housing Dream
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ Back in the 70′s when I was living in Philadelphia I recall being intrigued by the sudden emergence of Soul City, N.C. near Manson N.C. For most of the 70′s I read newspapers...
View ArticleDaily Infrastructure Report from the Department of Homeland Security
Department of Homeland Security ♦ Daily infrastructure report from the Department of Homeland Security: http://www.dhs.gov/dhs-daily-open-source-infrastructure-report
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