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Senator McLaurin’s Raleigh Report
Senator Gene McLaurin ♦I recently had the opportunity to visit the Anson County Partnership for Children for a seminar to educate the community on the importance of early childhood education. The...
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This Week in Raleigh with Rep. Harry Warren
Representative Harry Warren ♦This week started out with a compromise agreement between the House and the Senate on the Tax Revision Plan. A special press conference was held at the “Old Capitol...
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Poll 2: What is the best lunch spot in Salisbury?
RFP Staff ♦We hope you voted Poll 1, which is still open here. After we close Round I and Round II, we’ll have a run-off for the top scoring lunch spots in each round. Take Our Poll Poll I closed on...
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Letter-to-the Editor: Massive New Barriers Looming Against the Downtown...
Jonathan Morris, U.S. Army Ranger, Retired and Rowan County Sheep Baron ♦I watched with growing amusement the circus down at city hall being conducted to foist the Taj Mahal at 329 S. Main on the...
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Poll: Will the Local Government Commission Okay the Downtown Central Office?
RFP Staff ♦Will the Local Government Commission (LGC) okay the Downtown Central Office going forward at 329 S. Main Street? Or will this state commission give it a hearty thumbs down as some Raleigh...
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Letter to the Editor: Our City Can’t Afford to Bankroll a Central Office...
Georgie Goss, Salisbury To the Editor: I feel like the little boy who, while watching a parade with throngs of cheering people, points out that the emperor has no clothes. It’s not what people want to...
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A Photo Safari: Meltdown of Salisbury City Services Creates Green Hell
Steve Mensing, Editor and RFP Staff. Photographs by Scott Hunt ♦Get out your machetes and plunge along with our photo expedition into Salisbury’s Amazonia of yard high grass, weeds engulfing no...
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Announcement: Meet Dr. Mark Harris Potential Candidate for US Senate
♦Meet Dr. Mark Harris, contemplating becoming a Republican candidate for US Senate, on Thursday evening at 6:30 pm July, 25th at Milford Hill Baptist Church at 1238 E. Colonial Drive, Salisbury, NC....
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Salisbury City Hall Finally Takes Action on Vanderford “Spite Hole”
RFP Staff ♦Last Thursday the RFP staff traveled on a photo op to the ”Spite Hole” at Vanderford and West Bank. Here we spoke with Henry B. Waiters a long time neighborhood resident and several...
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Letter-to-the Editor: The Central Office Drops a Million in Price. Why Not...
Jonathon Morris, US Ranger, Ret. and Rowan County Sheep Baron ♦I’m reading today the price of the proposed Taj Mahal down on South Main just dropped a million dollars and city hall is all smiles. Well...
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Joint Mediation Between County Commissioners and School Board Resumes Monday
RFP Staff ♦According to Rowan County Commission Chairman Jim Sides, the joint closed session mediation, concerned with school funding, between the Rowan County Commissioners and the School Board will...
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Starbucks Victorious in RFP Poll: Who Serves the Best Coffee in Rowan County
RFP Staff ♦After several weeks of voting, the RFP Poll closes on “Who Serves the Best Coffee in Rowan County”. The results are: Starbucks 27.05% The Winner Panera Bread 24.59% Dunkin Donuts 14.75 %...
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Chuck Hughes’s Thoughts about Free Speech and the Rowan County Commissioners’...
Chuck Hughes, Rowan-Salisbury School Board The other day, I noticed several negative comments in Salisbury’s other newspaper regarding Commissioner Pierce’s weighing in on the County Commissioners...
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Poll: How Should the Rowan County 5 Respond to the Court Injunction to...
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Sides Says Neither a Point of Negotiation or Impasse Reached in County...
RFP Staff ♦Monday evening’s joint budget mediation between the Rowan County Commissioners and the Rowan-Salisbury School System met in closed session at the school systems administrative offices at...
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This Week in Raleigh with Rep. Harry Warren
Representative Harry Warren ♦This past week was the last week that the General Assembly was convened for the “long” session. The session ended Friday afternoon after much debate over various pieces of...
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City of Salisbury “Project Book” for the Taj Mahal at 329 S. Main. Complete PDF
RFP Research ♦After a brief search online, we found the City of Salisbury’s “project book” for the proposed RSSS downtown Central Office, which was recently employed for bidding purposes. Every last...
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This Week in Raleigh with Rep. Harry Warren: Focus on Voter ID
Representative Harry Warren ♦As promised last week, this newsletter will focus only on the Voter ID bill that was passed by the General Assembly last week. The bill, HB 589 – VIVA/ELECTION REFORM, was...
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