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TOP 12 ALL TIME MOST READ ARTICLES IN THE ROWAN FREE PRESS (Since March 2012)
RFP Staff ♦ TOP 12 ALL TIME MOST READ ARTICLES IN THE ROWAN FREE PRESS (Since March 2012) 1. An Interview: Ex-Salisbury Policeman Kenny Lane Speaks Out...
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Senator McLaurin’s Legislative Report
Senator Gene McLaurin ♦Last week, I voted against the NC Senate budget for a number of reasons that I wish to share with you. The Senate Budget, SB 402, released just days ago creates real problems...
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This Week in Raleigh with Rep. Harry Warren
Representative Harry Warren ♦The past ten legislative days were filled with more committee action than action in the House Chamber, and much of that work revolved around local bills, Resolutions and...
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Video: U.S. Congressman Richard Hudson Visits Salisbury, N.C. May 29th
Rick Johnson, Video ♦This past Tuesday night U.S. Congressman Richard Hudson, 8th District, appeared at the Blue Bay Restaurant on Statesville Blvd. Here is a video of his talk:
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Video: Dr. Mark Campbell Provides an Update on the Rowan County 5′s Prayer Case
Rick Johnson, Videographer ♦This video contains the very latest news about the Rowan County Commissioner’s prayer case and a similar case being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Fall. Dr. Mark...
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Contam-Scam: Cover up at 329 S. Main Money Pit?
RFP Staff ♦According to minutes of their June 5, 2007 meeting, Salisbury City Council voted to go into “closed session” under NCGS 143-318.11(5) regarding acquisition of property located at 329 [South]...
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Rowan County Airport is Now DE-ANNEXED!
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦The city of Salisbury’s limited resistance to airport de-annexation was ”counted out” a short while after 7:30 Monday night at an evening session of the NC House. Upon its 3rd...
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Mike “Mr. Everywhere” Jury Will Command Our Traffic Lights from Valdosta,...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦If you thought Salisbury’s traffic lights were slow or non functioning, wait until you put in a call to Valdosta, Georgia or somewhere off in the hinterlands of Northern Florida...
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Thoughts about Pay Raises for County and Salisbury Employees
Chuck Hughes, Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education ♦I’m hearing a lot about pay raises for County and City employees. Has it not occurred to anyone that in times of a drowning economy that when taxes are...
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County 200 Bully Salisbury 0: The Power Shifts to the County
Jonathan Morris, U.S. Army Ranger Ret. & Farmer ♦Lately Salisbury is taking a good ole butt-whuppin’ when it comes to getting over on their red neck neighbors in the county and the good folks...
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Letter-to-the Editor: Thom Tillis is Leaving a Bad Taste–Shape Up or Ship Out
Jonathan Morris, Woodleaf, NC ♦Rep. Thom Tillis called in conservative Larry Pittman and dressed him down for criticizing his Highness on conservative principles. Then he called in Robert Brawley,...
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The Budgetary Shell Game
Chuck Hughes ♦The wounds caused by the state budgetary shell game that requires balancing a budget without knowing the weight on the other side of the scale will soon heal – it always does. In the...
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No Sleepy Hollow. Salisbury Passed Over for Wilmington, NC Suprises Few.
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦”Sleepy Hollow will not be coming to Salisbury. It came as no shock to many familiar with the North Carolina film industry that Salisbury got passed over by 20th Century Fox for...
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Rep. Harry Warren: This Week In Raleigh
Representative Harry Warren ♦This week started out slowly with just four bills on Monday’s calendar, but the pace picked up on Tuesday with 21 bills on the calendar. Wednesday’s calendar had 20 more...
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Coyotes Prowling Downtown Salisbury: A Cartoon by Marina Bare
Marina Bare, Artist ♦Numerous reported coyote sightings in Salisbury’s Historic District. Cats and small dogs disappearing.
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Growing Numbers of Coyotes Marauding through Salisbury’s Historic District....
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦Last winter after leaving the Fisher Street Library at closing, I toted an armful of books up Jackson and turned the Hall House corner onto West Bank. Halfway up West Bank...
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An Interview with Chairman Jim Sides on Lottery Funds and the Schools. A...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦We caught up with Rowan County Commission Chairman Jim Sides after Tuesday afternoon’s county commission budget work session and he obliged us with a telephone interview: Steve...
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Two Announcements: Rep. Harry Warren Town Hall/Republican Men’s Club Breakfast
From the Office of Representative Harry Warren ♦Two Announcements: REPRESENTATIVE WARREN TO HOLD TOWN HALL MEETING Rep. Harry Warren will hold his June Town Hall on Friday, June 21, 2013, in the...
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Audio Recording: Kelly and Brown’s “Hearing Voices” Pre-Firing Meeting with...
RFP Staff This page is meant to be read after our article on Scott Hunt’s wrongful firing. Click here to read the article now. ♦The following audio recording and transcript are of a meeting between...
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