Cabarrus Cheap Seats

The local papers have been stating that the County could save money using Certificates of Participation (COPS) instead of using Tax-Increment Financing (TIF).  What they aren’t telling you is that the savings don’t occur until the very end of the loan AND in the first ten years, the price for COPS is more than $11 [...]

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It’s not the people who vote who count.  It’s the people who count the votes who do. - Joseph Stalin 
If you missed the Republican Men’s Club meeting last Thursday, you missed a chance to experience what an election might have looked like in the Soviet Union.

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Harris Road Middle’s Odyssey of the Mind team placed fifth in the Odyssey of The Mind World Finals for their divsion on the problem: “Around The World in 8 Minutes” [Click Here to View Results]
They and their families should be proud.  So should all of those who supported them.

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For two years, 60 Minutes has been following an Iowa National Guard batallion. 
[CLICK HERE TO WATCH IT]
Enjoy your Memorial Day and remember those who gave what Lincoln called “the last full measure of devotion” so that we can enjoy the freedoms we do today.

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Historic Public Policy Blunders:
1626 - Manhattan Island sold for some beads. It is now the most valuable real estate in the world.
1863 - General Lee doesn’t take Longstreet’s advice at Gettysburg and orders a charge from the front as opposed to flanking Meade.  That would be as far North as the Confederacy would go - [...]

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The NCGOP State Convention will be held June 1 through June 3 at the Convention Center in Charlotte.  You can find out more information here: [GOP CONVENTION INFORMATION]
You can register, like my wife and I did, early; and you can vote if you were at your county’s convention.  If you weren’t a delegate - you [...]

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Last night, the Cabarrus BOC voted to approve the County’s participation in the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC) financing; but not necessarily in the Tax-Increment Financing (TIF) bonds.  The issue was that, at this late moment, the County has decided to consider using Certificates of Participation (COPS), because of a slightly lower interest rate (but [...]

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Former NC Governors Jim Hunt and Jim Holshouser are scheduled to address tonight’s Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners Meeting - and it’s not to talk about approval of employee payroll deductions (which is on tonight’s agenda). 
It’s to talk about the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC).  They, along with several University officials, are coming in support [...]

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I read the news today and you should, too: [READ CABARRUS NEIGHBORS ARTICLE ON SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION] 
Over the course of the next year and a half, people running for office will act shocked that we’re so far behind on school construction and that it costs so much.  They’ll act like this is all one, big suprise.
Don’t believe [...]

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