Cabarrus Cheap Seats

The following is a letter from the area judges, district attorney, and sheriff regarding Pretrial Electronic House Arrest.
Robert Carruth, Chair of the Board of Commissioners for Cabarrus County
Commissioner Coy Privette
Commissioner Robert Freeman
Commissioner Carolyn Carpenter
Commissioner Joni Juba 
Re: Pretrial Electronic House Arrest and Cabarrus County Jail
Dear Commissioners:
For several years our Cabarrus County jail facility has been overcrowded. [...]

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Some previous posts on the Jail Project:

Being Coy About A Proposal
Incomplete Proposal
BOC Meeting Highlights: December 19, 2005
Politics in an Odd-Numbered Year XXXII: The Jail Blame Game
Downtown Concord to County: Drop Dead
The Worst Form of Government Except For All Of The Others

The folks at SaveConcord.com have set up a BBS where people can find out more [...]

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Late last week, I received the following e-mail from The North Carolina Conservative stating that their First Amendment rights were being infringed by North Carolina Republican Congressman Charles Taylor:
Rep. Taylor’s Office (R-NC11) Threatens Suit Against NC Newspaper 
The February 2006 issue of The North Carolina Conservative newspaper carried an article entitled Ethics Questions Arise for Congressman [...]

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OK, I’ve talked about annexation and the Odell situation ad nausem in the past. Here are the links:

Politics in an Odd-Numbered Year X: Odell Stops that Big, Yellow Taxi and Skips on the Fare
Odell, NC: The Toes You Step On Today Are Connected to the Butt You Must Kiss Tomorrow
The Odell Compromise
Politics in an Odd-Numbered [...]

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For those of you who believe that Illegal Immigrants are the #1 threat in America - you might just get to spend more local resources dealing with this crisis.
Now, if we could only do more about the terrorists that come to this country legally.

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For more on the manufactured scandal, go here.
The Colbert Report viewers know, Truthiness is Steven Colbert’s word. That is not up for debate. For those who don’t know what Truthiness is, it’s defined as follows:
truthiness: the quality of stating concepts or facts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known [...]

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Cabarrus County revamped their website. It looks great; but they moved some stuff around in the minutes section and that makes a lot of my past links invalid. Over the next couple of weeks, I’m going to try to fix these…this is post #96 (the first one was in May 2005) - so there’s going [...]

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