Salisbury City Council Wisely Nixes Paying for Frivolous Green Dome and Sends...
RFP Staff ♦ Salisbury City Council wisely voted to reject paying for the frivolous green metal dome ($341,000) for the Central Office at 500 N. Main and instead granted $656,000 ($500,000 in Cash and...
View ArticleVeterans Have Earned Access to Quality Health Care. Do Your Part to Speed Up...
Rodney Cress, Veteran Advocate ♦ A special note from Rodney Cress: VETERAN ALERT: Do you part to speed up VA wait time. I was contacted today by Jonathan Felts, former Sr. advisor to Gov. McCrory,...
View ArticleRowan County Sheriff’s Office: MOST WANTED and RECENT ARRESTS
Rowan County Sheriff’s Office ♦ Rowan County Sheriff’s Office Most Wanted and Recent Arrests: Most Wanted: http://ossip2c.rowancountync.gov/p2c/mostwanted.aspx Recent Arrests in Rowan County:...
View ArticleRowan-Salisbury Board of Education Meeting on Thursday November 20th at 4...
RFP Staff ♦ Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education Meeting on Thursday November 20th at 4 p.m. at the Ellis Street Administrative Offices at 314 N. Ellis Street, Salisbury, N.C. Board of Education Agenda:...
View ArticleFerguson, Mo and Black Communities Across the U.S. Brace for a Grand Jury...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ Across the nation tension grows as Ferguson, Missouri and black communities across the United States await a Grand Jury decision that might ignite a powder keg. The grand jury...
View ArticleCity Council Hears that Salisbury, N.C. Only Suffers from 23% Poverty....
RFP Staff ♦ At the most recent City Council meeting Robert Van Geons of RowanWorks optimistically reported that Salisbury, N.C. now only suffers from 23% poverty still an extremely discouraging...
View ArticleSalisbury, N.C.: America’s Gig City
Only a few blocks from Fibrant Hq. resides this household that is “Fibrant ready” for its residents. ♦
View ArticleComing This Weekend: The Towering Issues of Salisbury’s, N.C. 2015 City...
RFP Staff ♦ Coming this weekend: The Towering Issues of Salisbury’s 2015 City Council Race. As Salisbury, N.C. sinks deeper into mediocrity and its 300th city/town rating at Areavibes.com. America’s...
View ArticleConvicted Sex Offender Larry Wayne Putnam of Rockwell Caught Living Near...
RFP Staff ♦ Convicted sex offender Larry Wayne Putnam of Rockwell was picked up by Rowan County Sheriff’s deputies for living too close to Knollwood Elementary School. In 2006 Putnam was convicted of...
View ArticleGunman Robs Park Sterling Bank on West Innes in Salisbury, N.C. This...
RFP Staff ♦ Salisbury Police are hunting for a 6’2″ black male with a slim build who held up Park Sterling Bank on the 400 block of West Innes in Salisbury at around 1 p.m. today. The Bandit handed...
View ArticleBoard of Education Votes 5 to 1 to Authorize the Purchase of the Shulenburger...
RFP Staff ♦ At yesterday’s 4 p.m. meeting of the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education at N. Ellis Street the board voted 5 to 1 to authorize the purchase more property on the 500 block of North Main....
View ArticleThe Major Issues of the 2015 Salisbury, N.C. City Council Election: Issue...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ Certainly one of the largest issues in the upcoming 2015 Salisbury’s City Council election is the city government’s extreme lack of transparency. It was witnessed in the...
View ArticleSouth Main Internet Cafe Proves Mucho Bad Luck for Gunman During Armed...
RFP Staff ♦ Every so often the big roulette wheel in the sky comes up bad for a bandito. A gunman tried his luck at the South Main Internet Café Thursday in the badlands of Salisbury and had his .38...
View ArticlePOLL: What Should Be the Fate of Four Death Row Inmates in N.C.: Firing...
RFP Poll ♦ Ten years after banning the use of firing squads in state executions, Utah lawmakers this past week endorsed a proposal to allow firing squads again to avoid difficulties with...
View ArticleRecent By-Invitation-Only Economic Development Presentation in Salisbury...
RFP Research ♦ In a presentation to community luminaries a short time ago, according to several who attended the by-invitation-only event, the presenters emphasized the need for allowing economic...
View ArticleU.S. Census Demographics Shows White (Non Hispanic) is Only 48.6% of...
RFP Staff ♦ Latest Salisbury, U.S. Census Bureau demographics for Salisbury’s N.C. shows white (non-Hispanic population) is only 48.6% of an ever shrinking proportion of Salisbury’s populace. Perhaps...
View ArticleDustin Aaron Wilson, 23, Sought for Allegedly Physically Assaulting an...
RFP Staff ♦ Dustin Aaron Wilson, 23, of Kannapolis is sought by Rowan County Sheriff’s Office for allegedly assaulting a two-month-old infant. The infant, suffering from injuries consistent with a...
View ArticleWhere will Rowan County Do Its Holiday Shopping This Year: The Internet and...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ Every year for the last 3 years Rowan County consumers are making more and more purchases on the internet where they discover super deals and just about everything they wanted....
View ArticleLetter-to-the Editor: Why Not Declare “Knock Out Game Day” In Downtown...
Jonathon Morris, U.S. Army Ranger Ret. and Rowan County Sheep Baron ♦ With all this threat of city-wide violence in Salisbury, N.C. and elsewhere across the United States because of Ferguson, it might...
View ArticleCarolina Journal Reports: Smaller Firms Brace For Obamacare Price Shocks
Carolina Journal/Dan Way ♦ Carolina Journal Reports: Smaller Firms Brace For Obamacare Price Shocks: http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=11576
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