Cabarrus Cheap Seats

Two things happened yesterday:
A landmark agreement for the NCRC is settled and the Speedway is saved by offering road improvements (and renaming one road) [here's the Observer Article on the Speedway]
Now, ask yourself this question: Could the old majority - who took 5 years to decide to build a jail that was needed immedately; who [...]

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In today’s Cabarrus Neighbors, we have this quote from Jail Trail last hope Grace Mynatt:
The plan by commissioner Grace Mynatt would have eliminated the top two floors of the jail-law enforcement center complex’s 480-bed inmate housing building…”I’m frustrated,” Mynatt said. “There was just no willingness to compromise by other board members.”
Let me take Ms. Mynatt [...]

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According to the Concord Standard & Times (whose website has not been updated since August 22 as of the time of this post) - the latest delay in the Cabarrus Jail expansion project in Downtown Concord was at the request of the Jail Trail crowd. 
The case, which was supposed to be heard by the Court of [...]

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You ever watch the news and get upset with bridges to nowhere, bridges that fall apart, government waste, etc? You wish there’s something you could do about it?
Well, now is your opportunity.

Do you think that Cabarrus County has spent too much on the jail?
If the answer is “no”, try this question - do you [...]

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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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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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The Jail Committee didn’t get anywhere (because it didn’t even form); but it looks like there may be some headway on the jail.
Read the Independent Tribune article.

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