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Upcoming City Council Election’s Number Three Issue: Police Civil Rights...
RFP Staff ♦Looming as a major issue in this fall’s Salisbury city council election is an ongoing record of civil rights violations and police brutality in our city’s minority communities. While a...
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Upcoming City Council Election’s Number Four Issue: Fair Play for the...
RFP Staff ♦A fourth major issue, during the fall campaign for Salisbury City Council, is Salisbury’s inequitable treatment of its forcibly annexed residents. Its possible for Salisbury to do the right...
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Upcoming City Council Election’s Number Five Issue: Salisbury’s Immense...
RFP Staff ♦Salisbury’s city council and city manager’s office have done little to advance economic growth and jobs here save for speeding up the red tape process with a one-stop shop for more...
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This Week in Raleigh with Rep. Harry Warren
Representative Harry Warren ♦ The legislative activity on the House floor this week was primarily about Resolutions, votes for concurrence and action on mostly local bills. Committee work, however, saw...
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Video: Rowan County Commissioners, School Board Spar Over Finances
RFP Staff ♦Monday evening the Rowan County Commissioners met with the Rowan-Salisbury School Board for mediation at the County Agricultural Building on Old Concord Road. The joint mediation session is...
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Salisbury City Council’s Eight Major Campaign Issues
•Steve Mensing , Editor ♦The upcoming 2013 Salisbury’s City Council election will be defined by eight major issues. These issues could bring about long needed reform to a city in major free fall and...
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Letters-to-the Editor: Is It 100% Sure the Central Office is Not Going to 329...
Is It 100% Sure the Central Office is Not Going to 329 S. Main? To the Esteemed Editor of the Rowan Free Press, The other day my heart leaped with utter joy when I read the RFP’s article that the...
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Letter-to-the-Editor: Shrinking City Services Effecting Trash, Mowing, and...
♦To the Editor: I could not agree more with the recent articles on the issues in the upcoming Salisbury city council election. One of the city’s most glaring problems is not mentioned yet. This...
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Video: County Commissioners and School Board Continue Funding Fight in...
RFP Staff ♦On Thursday evening the Rowan County Commissioners and Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education met in a closed session to discuss school funding. This was the third such meeting in the debate...
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This Week in Raleigh with Rep. Harry Warren
Representative Harry Warren ♦ As the week began, the focus was primarily on reaching an accord with the Senate regarding a revision of the State’s taxation methodology. The latest version of the...
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City Government and Rowan-Salisbury Schools Violate Employees’ First...
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Interview with Ex-City Employee Chris Borre: Violation of First Amendment...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦This afternoon a former City of Salisbury employee and critic of the Salisbury government, Chris Borre visited with us at the Rowan Free Press. We appreciate his stepping...
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A Letter-to-the-Editor: Are We really Funding Education or Feathering...
Deborah Jackson, Rockwell, NC ♦I am following the mediation process between the Rowan County Commissioners and the Rowan-Salisbury School System with interest. I am heartened our commissioners are...
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Dr. Ada M. Fisher Upstages Scripted Performance by School System and Main...
RFP Staff ♦Dr. Ada M. Fisher upstaged a packed house sent out by the schools and the Main Street merchants. About 80 people spoke mostly from scripted talking points at a well-orchestrated public...
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Troubled Rowan-Salisbury School System Has Yet to Comply with Statutory...
RFP Staff ♦The Rowan-Salisbury School Administration has yet to comply with a full accounting of financial records requested on two separate occasions, first by County Commission Chairman Jim Sides and...
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Salisbury’s Previous Taj Mahal: The Customer Service Center on MLK
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦Nearly empty of customers most days, Salisbury’s previous Taj Mahal sits forlorn and forgotten out on MLK. Few people come by to pay their utility bills and rarely do Fibrant...
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Poll: What is the Best Lunch Spot in Salisbury?
RFP Staff **Please note a second poll of Salisbury’s lunch spots will appear this coming week and will include: Go Burrito, Mykanos, Cracker Barrel, and others. The top 3 finishers on the list below...
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