Cabarrus Cheap Seats

I ran across an interesting story in today’s Observer:
http://www.charlotte.com/540/story/697154.html
Apparently, IF the NC Education Lottery were to be repealed, then according to Perdue, there would be a “$350 million” gap in education funding, that would have to be found somewhere.  In essence, what she is saying is this - now education is not a priority spending [...]

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It turns out that my ancestors being forced to move against their will to help a bunch of ill mannered Irishmen keep from starving might not have been such a bad thing after all!

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Can anyone tell me why Robin Hayes and Liz Dole are rated so low in the ratings of Congress???Also why are they rated lower than Representatives that are Junior to them.
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/power_rankings/…

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Our favorite Congressman Robin Hayes took the award of “Top Gun” at the annual Congressional Shoot-Out this year. I think this should make top campaign news across the district, but that might just be me. Who better to represent our district for two more years than a straight shooter on the issues, and [...]

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Note: The Friday Fives return after the Primaries
Here’s the new NCGOP ad - if you haven’t already seen it. John McCain saw it and told them to pull it. The National Party told them to pull it. But, in their infinite wisdom, the NCGOP will run this on TV channels throughout the state.
The [...]

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No, I’m not recycling stories from before I started blogging.  Onslow County Manager Frank Clifton resigned under apparent pressure from their Board of Commissioners.
Here’s the story and some interesting commentary from Carolina Politics Online.

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Our Monthly meeting of the Cabarrus County GOP will be held TOMORROW!!! Thursday, March 6, at 7pm at Troutman’s on 601. Our speaker will be BILL GRAHAM, candidate for Governor!!! Bill has been an incredible source of support for our local party, and with primary day just around the corner, it’ll be a [...]

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Why crazy 9/11 theories persist.

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First, there was this bit of news of breaks on sales taxes and expanding the TIF limits [click here to read more] - that’s par for the course lately.
Now, Congressman Robin Hayes is helping out.
This from the Sailsbury Post:
Hayes worked to get specific language in the bill to recognize the importance of plant genetic and nutrition research [...]

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[Image Credit: This was taken by my friend, Capt. Charlie Benbow of Concord, following Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004.  His blog (Lightning From The Sky) was featured in Better Blogs a little while ago.]
I’m going to take a little bit of a break from the local fare to share a series of articles that are [...]

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