Cabarrus Cheap Seats

So for the longest time, I thought I was sending local officials e-mails.
Funny thing - the bi-weekly e-mail happened once…maybe.  I didn’t know it; but my mass e-mail to 80 or so officials and candidates run up against a 50 e-mail/hour limit.  I never got an error.
What’s funny is that I got increasingly indignant about [...]

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I have taken down what is one of my most popular posts; because it’s not the direction I want to go with this blog.
Interacting with Ric Starnes, the inspiration for the post, reminded me of dealing with the rabid, flesh-eating zombies from the movie 28 Days Later - spreading hate and vitriol while adding [...]

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Most of the time - when I make an error -  I catch it before it goes to folks e-mail boxes in the morning and is sent along my RSS feed.  Well, twice this week, there have been errors that have traveled along that *others* have caught.  And, I figure that the rest of you should know about [...]

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“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.” - Thomas Carlyle
According to Harold Smith and Coy Privette - I’ve been undertaxed. Or, they were simply mistaken. Or, they were exploiting perception to score some votes in the May Primary.
I’m going to serve up a big helping of the benefit of [...]

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In the 2005 Election Thoughts article, I stated that Michael Hart and Steve Sciascia had never voted before. I had based that on a statement made by Mark Martin in an Independent Tribune article.
This is, in fact, not the case. When I was writing the article, I couldn’t get to the State Board Of Elections [...]

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In an earlier post, I responded to some commenters who mentioned a lawsuit from “the Odell community” with a bit of incredulity. Well, Robin and Marlynn Burns (who to some represent “the Odell Community”) have in fact filed suit against the County for approving Pelhem Pointe and Waterford on the Rocky River.
There you have it. [...]

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