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Video: Rowan County Commissioners Approves $133 Million Dollar Budget 3-2 at...
RFP Staff ♦ The Rowan County Commissioners met at 4 p.m. at the County Administration Building at 130 West Innes in Salisbury, N.C. • The County commissioners voted 3 to 2 to approve the county budget...
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Letter-to-the Editor: Response to Chuck Hughes’s Recycled Wisdom Letter
Wes Rhinier, Granite Quarry, N.C. ♦ For decades American’s have been going to the polls and voting for the lesser of two evil’s. We have been holding our nose’s and voting even though we haven’t...
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Letter-to-the: “Lords of Salisbury”
Chuck Hughes, Salisbury, N.C. Lords of Salisbury, With the demise of your authority to invade more homesteads and capture more taxpayers to fill your coffers, you further abuse your remaining subjects...
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Rep. Harry Warren’s (District 77) Newsletter for June 17th
Rep. Harry Warren (District 77), (District 77), (919) 733-5784, Harry.Warren@ncleg.net Hello, Friends! Most of the House activity of last week focused on completing the House budget proposal,...
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The Empire Hotel: The Buzzards are Circling Lower Over South Main
RFP Staff ♦ Just as we began to believe that all the last merriment was squeezed out the Empire Hotel, new information showed up at the Rowan Free Press offices. It’s hard to fathom that a group of...
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Live Salisbury City Council Today at 4 P.M. Right Here! Watch Public Comments!
Live Salisbury City Council Today at 4 P.M. Right Here! Watch Public Comments! http://www.salisburync.gov/Departments/Administration/Pages/Webcast.aspx
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Salisbury City Council “Mutually Terminates” City Manager Doug Paris after...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ The long expected chickens finally came home to roost Tuesday evening at 217 North Main as City Manager Doug Paris, 30, was “mutually terminated” after a 5 hour closed-session...
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Readings from the “Book of Doug”: A Selection of Articles about the Former...
RFP Staff ♦ Here is a selection of past articles about Salisbury’s former City Manager Doug Paris:...
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Video: City Manager Doug Paris’s “Mutual Termination” Announcement Last Night...
RFP Staff/City Hall Video ♦ Video: City Manager Doug Paris’s “Mutual Termination” Announcement Last Night at City Hall:
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Say No to Bike Lanes: The Overwhelming Case against Bike Lanes
Geoff Brighton, Corvallis, Oregon ♦ As a 30 year bicycle rider and bicycle activist in the university town of Corvallis, Oregon, I write about bike lanes with first hand authority. Most bike lanes...
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Two Thieves Loot 28 Cartons of Cigarettes from “Love’s Travel Plaza” Near...
RFP Staff ♦ Tuesday the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office reported that two black males entered the store at “Love’s Travel Plaza” on the 1100 block of Peeler Road, distracted the clerk’s attention, and...
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US Representative Sam Johnson, Former POW, on Terrorist Trade
An Open Letter from US Representative Sam Johnson ♦
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Vandalism on the Upswing in Downtown Salisbury, N.C.. Broken Widows, Gang...
RFP Staff ♦ Vandalism is on the upswing in Downtown Salisbury, N.C.. In a downtown area pockmarked by vacancies, urban decay, and obsolete buildings, gang graffiti and broken windows dominate Main...
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The Stories Swirling Around Doug Paris’s Mysterious and Sudden “Mutual...
RFP Staff ♦ “Many eyes see, many ears hear, there are no secrets in Macao .” Charlie Chan And the same holds true about secrets in Salisbury, N.C. where secrets sometimes last only minutes. In city...
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Video: Lt. Gov. Dan Forest Discusses North Carolina Endowment Fund for Teachers
UNC-TV ♦ Lt. Gov. Dan Forest Discusses North Carolina Endowment Fund for Teachers:
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Sen. Gene McLaurin’s Legislative Update
NC Sen. Gene McLaurin ♦ Each day we are in session in the NC Senate, we begin with prayer. Daily prayer helps all of us to give thanks to God and focus on what’s really important in our lives and in...
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Where are You Mr. President? Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi is a Prisoner in a...
Chuck Hughes, Salisbury, N.C. ♦ Mr. President, why are you not listening to the pleas of the American people concerning Sgt. Andres Tahmooressi held in a Mexican jail? You worked long and hard in an...
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Commissioner Jon Barber Larceny Investigation Remains Open with the State...
RFP Staff ♦ William Sherill Barber III, known locally as Jon Barber, a Rowan County commissioner, is currently under an open and ongoing investigation by the North Carolina State Bureau of...
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Think Tank: The Impact of Racial Oppression, Privilege, and Post Racial...
Public Announcement ♦ The next monthly Chamber Think Tank session will be held at 4:00pm on SUNDAY, JUNE 22nd at the Blue Bay Restaurant located on East Innes Street near I-85. The topic for this...
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City Council’s Cover-up of Doug Paris’s “Mutual Termination” and “Golden...
RFP Staff ♦ Even in a financially troubled city where its elected officials read scripts and defer to someone with obvious defects and a penchant for reality bending, limits exist as to what can be...
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