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Mac Butner’s Last Stand
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ If most people read Mac Butner’s uppercase Facebook quotes they would be bewildered by his continued fight to maintain his board chairmanship on the Rowan County Housing...
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July’s Carolina Journal: “Salisbury Sewer Fees Prop Up Broadband”
RFP Staff ♦ A cover story appears on the front page of the July print version of the Carolina Journal: “Salisbury Sewer Fees Prop Up Broadband” by Barry Smith. Like others probing into the Fibrant,...
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City-Owned Pocket Park at 11th and North Main Transforms into a Lush Savannah...
RFP Staff ♦ The City-owned pocket park at 11th and North Main, a former gas station site, transforms into a lush savannah of Johnson grass and milkweed. The ex-city manager permitted the property’s...
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City’s Alleged 3,000th Fibrant Signup Lags Far Behind 4,500 Projection...
RFP Staff ♦ In a city infamous for covering up the “mutual termination” and “golden parachute” of its former City Manager and former city information Director’s “resignation” and “golden parachute”, we...
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When the Rats Turn on Each Other at City Hall, Sooner or Later They get the...
Survival of the Fittest, Artist ♦ “When the Rats Turn on Each Other, Sooner or Later They Get the Big Cheese.”
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Update from NC Senator Gene McLaurin
NC Sen. Gene McLaurin ♦All too often we read about the inability of our elected leaders to reach compromise and work together. Since being elected to serve as your state senator in Raleigh, I have...
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Legislative Update from NC Rep. Harry Warren
Rep. Harry Warren ♦July 3rd, the House passed Senate Bill 729 The Coal Ash Management Act of 2014, after thoroughly amending it and subjecting it to hours of debate over two days on the House floor....
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Rockwell Bikers to Celebrate Military Families with Charity “ROO Ride” on...
Public Announcement ♦ July 5 motorcycle charity ride, part of fourth annual Kangaroo Express Salute Our Troops® campaign to raise awareness, funds for local military support orgs What:...
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Greetings From the Faith 4th of July Parade!
Rep. Carl Ford (District 76) ♦ Huge turnout along the Faith, N.C. 4th of July parade route this morning!
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Poll Result: After City Council’s Cover-up of Doug Paris’s “Mutual...
RFP Poll ♦ Final Poll Result: Take Our Poll
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NIOSH Report on Salisbury Millwork Fire in Salisbury, N.C. Claiming Two...
RFP Staff ♦ On March 7th 2008 the Salisbury Millwork fire in Salisbury, N.C. claimed the lives of two dedicated firefighters. The NIOSH Report makes this very timely recommendation: “ensure that crew...
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Salisbury Streets Alive: Suppose You Gave a Party and NOBODY Came?
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ Salisbury Streets Alive could’ve been deemed a success had the promoters done either one of two things: • Get Salisbury’s army of psychic investigators to count ghosts. • Turn...
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Letter-to-the Editor: Closed Streets. Huh?
Misty McDaniel, Salisbury, N.C. ♦ Eric Phillips, owner of Salisbury’s premier empty space bike shop “Skinny Wheels”, recently urged Downtown Salisbury Inc. to host “Closed Streets”, an idea based on...
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Fireworks Filmed with a Drone
Youtube ♦ Fireworks filmed with a drone. Fly right into the explosions and starbursts:
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Rowan County Commissioners Meet Monday July 7th at 3 P.M.
RFP Staff ♦ The Rowan County Commissioners meet in the J. Newton Cohen, Sr. Room on the 2nd floor of the County Administration Building, 130 W. Innes St, Salisbury, N.C. Highlights of Monday’s agenda:...
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Large Barriers Against Bringing and Keeping Business in Salisbury, N.C....
RFP Staff ♦ While the City’s Fiber network optic added gigabyte internet speeds, large barriers against bringing and keeping business in Salisbury, N.C. continue to grow especially with the recent...
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Overcoming Salisbury’s 28% Poverty: Ideas from the Federal Promise Zone...
RFP Staff ♦ Yesterday a friend sent us a news item about the Federal Promise Zone Initiative aimed at turning extreme poverty in several large urban and rural poverty zones in the United States....
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Ferreting Out White Collar Corruption in Municipal Government: Cronies
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ Almost invariably when investigators go after municipal white collar crime, they notice specific patterns universal to municipal corruption: • The mayor and city council are...
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Salisbury City Hall’s All-Out War on Local Business Steps It Up on Signage Fees!
RFP Staff ♦ Salisbury City Hall’s all-out war on local business steps it up another notch: Effective July 1, 2014 the City of Salisbury adopted new sign permit fees: Sign Panel/Face Change–$50.00...
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