Cabarrus Cheap Seats

I found out late last week that a paper that I have for ASME is due today. So, I didn’t want to spend this weekend on integration of the new blog. At any rate, it’s pretty much finished. I took most people’s advice but for the font (sorry, Aaron).
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Just so you know I’m not blowing smoke about changing the format - here’s a preview of the new layout.
I’d appreciate any comments or suggestions.

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About 1,000 days ago, I said this to someone who was tired of the lies that made up the basis of the political debate in Cabarrus County:
“When Harold Smith posts something - I’ll post something”
That was the original mission statement of “The View From the Cheap Seats”. After some research and discussions, I [...]

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On invitation of the Kannapolis Citizen, I’ll be publishing this (well, last) week’s and future week’s Friday Five at SalisburyPostables.com - the Salisbury Post’s new blog site. I will post the video and header of the post here - with the entire post at the Salisbury Post site.
It’s interesting - y’all should go [...]

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America: Bringing you campaign nastiness since 1800
Republicans told everyone that the Catholic Smith had commissioned a secret tunnel 3,500 miles long, from the Holland Tunnel to the Vatican in Rome, and that the Pope would have say in all presidential matters should Smith be elected.

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I’ve decided to move the return of Ric Starnes (now “disemvoweled for your amusement) to this post. The other two active conversations that are going on:
Some interesting ideas on reforming the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners
The possibility of felony charges being brought against Coy Privette

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If you haven’t noticed, others have been doing more writing on there than me, and that’s great. I’d like to do a quick roundup.
Sid Rauch gives us yet another reason why Coy should call it quits.
I think our District Attorney should reinstate the Cabarrus County charges related to his false police report and other [...]

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Why crazy 9/11 theories persist.

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During my time off, I did some work to make this blog run a little better.
The first thing, I fixed the Be Heard form.  I noticed that during the “upgrade” some of the settings went to a very strict default that didn’t allow guests to post.  I also checked the log and saw that [...]

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