Cabarrus Cheap Seats

Two of the basic tasks of government are protecting us from criminals and building roads. In Cabarrus County - the government is failing on both counts.

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When it comes to attempted jail compromises in the past, I’ve been right; but judging from this bit in the Indepedent Tribune - I might be wrong about a recent prediction of failure:
Commissioners want to tighten the screws on a proposed compromise for the county’s downtown jail project that provides two thirds of the beds [...]

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The Cabarrus Neighbors reports that the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners and the Jail Trail folks are going to back to try to find some common ground on the jail.
Yes, you’ve seen this before.  No, the CN and I aren’t in cahoots trying to recycle stories.  This is in today’s paper.
They’ve tried this before, and I said it [...]

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I couldn’t make last night’s Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners meeting; but Eric Deines of the Independent Tribune did.  Of course, the jail was cussed and discussed.  The article was off on two respects:  first, they weren’t debating the annex and second, “Cabarrus” doesn’t have two “bs”.  It seems as though our friendly, local, media-conglomorate-owned paper might [...]

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The Independent Tribune covered the highlights of last night’s meeting; and I figured I would link to some related articles.

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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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“Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.” - Robert W. Sarnoff 
Update Note [April 23, 2007]: I figure since The Cabarrus Youth Tax: How Your Kids Might Pay For Their Own Schools became the most read article on this blog over the past couple of weeks, I would re-run [...]

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It was great seeing all of the people supportive of the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC) Tax Increment Financing (TIF) bond at the Cabarrus BOC meeting last night.  Dr. Dari Caldwell and Roy Davis did an amazing job speaking.  I spoke also, but I got a little scrambled in the middle…kinda felt like I was doing [...]

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Last week, the County and Jail Opponents went into mediation and came out with no agreement.  The County offered to take out 2 floors of the current project - reducing the size of the jail from 6 stories to 4.  This would have not made the project the “Twin Towers of Terror” that the Downtown [...]

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After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. - 2 Corinthians 12:14
Earlier this week, Cabarrus County Schools reported that their budget was increasing 20% from last year. This is to open and staff new schools.
The claim has been made by members of the old majority [...]

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