Cabarrus Cheap Seats

OK, I’ll admit, the last question was pretty tough. So, we’ll throw around something that’s on the mind of every voter in the county and it’s a fundamental part of the job you’re seeking.
If you were elected to office, what would be the top three things you’d do to manage, encourage, control, stimulate, or eliminate [...]

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Update: For the full summary of the “Juba Scandal” - click here.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been trying to mix things up a bit and not just react to www.goharoldsmith.com all of the time. With the last four posts by Harold Smith, I really didn’t have much of a choice.
A little while ago, [...]

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Over the past year, a common rant among Coy Privette and His Acolytes (writing “Cabarrus Taxpayers Association” and “Cabarrus Men’s Club” time and time again is wearing me down) is that the County Attorney, Fletcher Hartsell, has failed the county with lousy legal representation and charged a lot in the process of doing so. One [...]

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Thanks for those who put “Cabarrus Election Challenge” off to a good start! For those of you who didn’t get a chance to state why you’re running - go ahead and post your answer on last week’s question.

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Well, Harold’s got a new bureaucrat to pick on this week - Kannapolis City Manager Mike Legg. However, he picked the bridge on Oakwood Avenue as his beef with Mike Legg. Here’s the deal - it may not even be Mike Legg’s issue to deal with. Here’s the text from Harold’s e-mail he sent Thursday [...]

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Alright, I was supposed to go over our portion of pork from the federal highway bill. Well, the data analysis I had in hand was suspect…so, that’ll be next week. Instead, I’m going to focus on two bills that our representatives in Raleigh considered, and in the process, I’ll upset most of the readers of [...]

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Election Challenge is an additional forum for all of those candidates in the 2005 elections to express their views, reach out to the voters, and address the issues that are important to the citizens of Cabarrus County.
Here’s how this works. Every week, there will be a new question, statement, headline, issue, etc. and you, the [...]

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Wow, North Carolina Law is a funny thing. According to an article in Friday’s Independent Tribune, before the incorporation of Odell can go to a vote by it’s residents ALL of the municipalities in the county must approve.
That includes Kannapolis.
Yes, Kannapolis, NC that “undesirable address” I guess they are going to be discarding their main [...]

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Liar is a pretty hefty label. It’s not one that I throw around. So, to say that I caught Harold Smith in a lie would be a little strong for me. Let’s just say that I just detected a “deceptive factual inaccuracy in a statement intended to mislead”. Here goes:

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I-85 is the first step in the route to both of our capitols (OK, you could take NC49; but bear with me) - Raleigh and Washington, D.C. So, I figure a little coverage of what comes down from those two places when it’s pertinent locally might be a good addition to the usual fare on [...]

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