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Time Warner Cable Announces “TWC Maxx” Service Will be Introduced in...
Press Release NEW YORK, NY – Time Warner Cable (TWC) today announced it will begin transforming the TV and Internet service experience in seven markets in 2015: Charlotte, Dallas, Hawaii, Kansas City,...
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Letter-to-the-Editor: Re: “How Does the Proposed Budget Affect NC’s Most...
Chuck Hughes, Salisbury, N.C. ♦ Your August 8th article: “How Does the Proposed Budget Affect NC’s Most Seasoned Teachers?” concerning North Carolina’s one-sided pay scale was excellent. I believe...
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“Mutually Terminated” Paris’s Politically Manipulative Email
RFP Staff ♦ Evident in emails the RFP obtained from public information requests via North Carolina General Statute 132, Ex-City Manager Doug Paris’s behavior involved launching almost daily propaganda...
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Video: FOIA Obtained Email Reveals Doug Paris Scripted Commissioner Jon...
RFP Staff ♦ On the morning of September 16, 2013, “mutually terminated” city manager Doug Paris sent Elaney Hasselmann a copy of a script written for County Commissioner Jon Barber to read during his...
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Rowan County Commission Meeting on Monday August 4th at 3 P.M. Public Hearing...
RFP Staff ♦ On Monday afternoon August 4th at 3 p.m. the Rowan County Commissioners will meet in the J. Newton Cohen, Sr. Room on the 2nd floor of the Rowan County Administration Building on 130 West...
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Today’s Public Sideshow on the West End Plaza LGC Application
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ Monday at 3 p.m. the County Commission meeting will likely be turned into sideshow when the public hearing on the financing of the West End Plaza takes place a little ways down...
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Lose Your Historic Preservation Tax Credits? There’s Historic Treasures...
RFP Staff ♦ Salisbury “philanthropists” who want to restore beautiful old historic buildings need not mourn the loss of historic preservation tax credits—or the end of the commoditization of those tax...
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Why Nobody Bothers with Going to Downtown Salisbury Anymore
Jonathan Morris, U.S. Ranger Ret. & Rowan County Sheep Baron ♦ No small wonder why new businesses in Downtown Salisbury seldom remain open for long or that people dare to even venture there. It’s...
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Video: Rowan County Commission Meeting on Monday August 4th at 3 P.M. Hearing...
RFP Staff ♦ Video of Monday afternoon’s Rowan County Commissioner Meeting and Public Hearing for the West End Plaza LGC application:...
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Video: The Tsunami Development Literacy Program
RFP Staff ♦ At Monday’s Rowan County Commission meeting, Tsunami Development Literacy Program leaders Chris Sifford, Anthony Smith, and Kenny Hardin called for “all hands on deck” to end illiteracy and...
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Salisbury Police Department Participates in “National Night Out” on Tuesday...
Press Release ♦ On Tuesday evening, August 5th, the Salisbury Police Department will participate in the nationally recognized program known as, “National Night Out. This annual event is designed to...
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The Chamber’s Plan for a Literacy Program at the West End Plaza
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ I was very heartened yesterday to learn of the Chamber’s latest initiative (Tsunami Development Literacy Program) where the Chamber is planning to plant a literacy program in...
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Letter-to-the-Editor: Skinny on Yesterday’s School Board Meeting
Chuck Hughes, Board of Education, Salisbury, N.C. ♦ Again, the Salisbury Post’s reporter missed the mark. Although there were serous concerns when we learned that the 48K Central Office building would...
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Senator Gene McLaurin’s Statement on the Compromise Budget
From the office of NC Sen. Gene McLaurin ♦“Although this budget is far from perfect, I voted Yes and let me explain my reasons. I have heard from many state employees who educate our children, clean-up...
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This Week in Raleigh: Rep. Harry Warren
NC Rep. Harry Warren ♦ This will be the last regular weekly update of the General Assembly’s activities for the 2014 “short session. Although the General Assembly did not adjourn “Sine Die,” it will...
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A Questionable Arrangement between “Mutually Terminated” Doug Paris and Knox...
RFP Staff ♦ In public documents obtained via North Carolina General Statute 132, the RFP received the following emails in which former Salisbury City Manager Doug Paris was embroiled in maneuvering...
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(Video) Former County Radio Stations Owner Tom Harrell Weighs-in on the Death...
RFP Staff ♦ Former Rowan County Radio Stations Owner Tom Harrell Weighs-in on Downtown Salisbury’s Economic Plight: When time passes Main Street by and a town dies from the movie “Cars”.
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Fibrant Only Had Three 100 Mbps Customers from November 2010 through July...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ I guess they “cover-up kids” in Salisbury’s “want to move on” city hall have entered an alternate reality. Maggie Blackwell suggests elsewhere that Salisbury, N.C. needs to get...
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Time Warner Cable is Poised to Clean Wilson’s “Greenlight: Fiber–to–the–Home”...
RFP Staff ♦ Time Warner Cable’s Maxx internet and business class 10 gig by 10 gig fiber network are poised to clean Wilson’s “Greenlight: Fiber–to–the–Home” Clock. “Fiber-to-the-home” municipalities...
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Alma Adams Remains Unresponsive to Debate Opportunity with Vince Coakley
Press Release ♦ For the past two weeks, state representative Alma Adams has failed to respond to 12th District Congressional candidate Vince Coakley’s request to schedule and conduct a series of public...
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