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Senator Gene McLaurin’s Statement on the Senate Budget
Sen. Gene McLaurin (N.C. 25th District) 919.733.5953 “Despite serious reservations about some aspects of the Senate budget, today I stood with teachers in my district and voted Yes. I’ll be the first...
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Shock for NC Career Teachers: Less Pay Either Way
RFP Staff ♦ If the budget that passed in the Senate Friday night is passed in the House on Saturday or Sunday, the career teacher scales will be lower. Those already near the cap and who are not going...
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Huawei Achieves Wireless Data Record of 10.53 Gigabytes Per Second. Is Fiber...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ I hate to be the bearer of bad news for fiber optic technology, but the concussive drumbeats of super gigabyte per second wireless transmission are sounding ever closer. As...
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The World According to Doug: Let’s Blame the N.C. General Assembly for Our...
RFP Staff ♦ It wasn’t so long ago our City Manager Doug Paris tried to blame Zhone for Fibrant’s devistating run of lengthy outages and then turned around months later and purchased more Zhone...
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County Forced to Pay for Salisbury’s Fibrant Flop through Water and Sewer...
RFP Staff ♦ Salisbury’s Fibrant debacle worsened yesterday as their substandard TV package, which few buy now, has gone up in price according to their city manager. This was done in a crowded field of...
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Rowan County Sheriff’s Office’s MOST WANTED
Rowan County Sheriff’s Office ♦ Rowan County Sheriff’s Office MOST WANTED http://ossip2c.rowancountync.gov/p2c/mostwanted.aspx
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Letter-to-the Editor: Who Will the City Manager Blame Next?
Chuck Hughes, Salisbury, N.C. ♦ Salisbury’s elected officials have consistently wasted taxpayer’s money on projects such as Fibrant and are apparently planning to continue pouring money into even more...
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Wrongful Terminations: The Unforgotten City of Salisbury Employees
RFP Staff ♦ It’s been over a year now since we interviewed Kenny Lane (Salisbury Police Department), Chris Borre (Rowan-Salisbury Utilities), and Scott Hunt (Parks and Recreation) who were either...
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Republican Men’s Club Breakfast Meets on Saturday June 7th at Ryan’s in...
Public Announcement ♦ Republican Men’s Club Breakfast meets on Saturday June 7th at Ryan’s on 730 Jake Alexander Blvd. S in Salisbury, N.C. Come join friends in political conversations and hear from...
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Commission Meets Monday at 3 P.M. June 2nd at County Administration Building....
RFP Staff ♦ ROWAN COUNTY COMMISSION AGENDA Call to Order Invocation • Provided By: Commissioner Mitchell Pledge of Allegiance Consider Additions to the Agenda Consider Deletions From the Agenda...
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Downtown Salisbury has the Highest Property Tax in North Carolina. No Wonder...
RFP Staff ♦ How many of you know that downtown Salisbury has the highest tax rate in the county? And how many of you know that downtown Salisbury properties are taxed the highest–bar none– in the...
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Rowan County Emergency Services–Emergency Management–Disaster Preparedness...
RFP Staff ♦ A disaster or emergency situation can strike at anytime, anywhere in Rowan County. We are at times visited by tornadoes, hurricanes, flash floods, snow storms, major toxic spills, and host...
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The Gauntlet: Why Downtown Salisbury Businesses So Often Fail
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ A gauntlet exists for Downtown Salisbury Businesses, especially retail, which they face daily in their battle to survive and climb out of the red. There are powerful reasons...
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Video: Today’s County Commission Meeting Withdraws West End Plaza LGC...
RFP Staff ♦ With surprisingly few “La Resistance” members in the audience, the county commissioners withdrew their LGC application and terminated the 7:30 pm public hearing slated for the West End...
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Letter-to-the-Editor: Commending Our Commissioners
Chuck Hughes ♦ As a citizen of Rowan County and a captive-by-annexation-citizen of Salisbury, I want to commend our commissioners for what I consider to be an honorable tour of duty. The Board of...
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Letter-to-the Editor: Fire Department Dangerously Understaffed, Putting...
The Firemens’ Names Were Removed Due to Upper Management’s History of Reprisals ♦ Currently the Salisbury Fire Department is losing trained fire fighters at an alarming rate. This is occurring for two...
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While Rome Burns: Salisbury’s “Complete Streets Square” Envisioned with Make...
RFP Staff ♦ For your amusement we are sharing the “Complete Streets” envisioning of Downtown Salisbury’s “Square” with humans present (An area where pedestrians seldom venture). We think the...
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North Carolina Division of Veterans Affairs Launches “Vet Tip Hotline” for...
Press Release RALEIGH – June 2, 2014 The North Carolina Division of Veterans Affairs (NCVA) launched a “Vet Tip Hotline” today to help veterans and improve services at US Department of Veterans Affairs...
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Free Courses on Many Subjects Available Online from Rowan Public Library
Rowan Public Library ♦ Free Gale Courses offers a wide range of highly interactive, instructor led courses that you can take entirely online. As a library card holder in good standing, you are...
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Letter-to-the-Editor: East Rowan Heads South to Shop in Cabarrus and Stanly
Crystal Lineberry, East Rowan Mostly I survive off of Aldi, the Dollar General and yard sales, so I am the exception to the shopping patterns in East Rowan. Most people in East Rowan when they go...
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