Cabarrus Cheap Seats

Hey, it’s Palmer again - I’ve taken a break from solving the mystery of the baby trapped in Mommy’s belly. I got some cool pictures to show y’all from my Election Day adventure. That one is me with David Murdock. He’s building some big thing in Kannapolis that costs more than a [...]

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Update: Election Returns should be here when polls close.
Today’s the day. I didn’t do Cabarrus Election Challenge this year. I was going to do something else; but it fell through. Thankfully, there are three sources that have picked up the slack and are great sources of information.
The first is the Cabarrus Neighbors who [...]

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I found out today that I’m a nominee for the Best Blog in the 6751-8750 ranking in the Weblog Awards. Special thanks to Sister Toldjah for nominating me.
Anyhow, if you’d like to vote for me, you can go to the Weblog Awards and cast your vote for the Cabarrus Cheap Seats.
You can vote once [...]

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The City Council has changed their position on the drag strip and I’ve changed my mind on how well our City government is representing us.
While an earlier article put me on the fence about the Speedway fiasco, there are three issues that make me believe it’s time for serious change in Concord.

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When I first heard about the complaints over the proposed drag strip at Lowes Motor Speedway (LMS) - I asked myself - how loud is it really?
Pretty freakin’ loud. 
According to makeitlouder.com (which is one of the coolest website names ever).  N.H.R.A. dragsters can produce sounds in the 160db range when standing nearby.  That’s in the [...]

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Given the newest brouhaha over the speedway and the on-going silliness from Coy Privette, it’s easy to miss a first in Cabarrus County.  The first on-line candidate video.  Here it is, from Mike Tallent of Midland:

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Thierry (AKA LiberalNC of Left on 49 fame) actually did something on my “to-do” list.  Before I started talking about the upcoming municipal elections, I wanted to post the candidates’ political registration information.   But, Thierry beat me to it AND upped the ante by making a Google Maps Mashup
As you know, municipal elections are “non-partisan” which is code [...]

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I’ve been talking to some of the 2007 Candidates in the Cabarrus County Election, and trying to come up with some new ideas to help y’all meet them. One of the ones I talked to was Mike Tallent. Mike was kind enough to try his hand at blogging and submitted an article yesterday. [...]

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After the civil war ended slavery was outlawed and the fifteenth amendment was adopted. It stated that the United States would not deny voting rights on account of race or color. This brought on poll taxes, grandfather clauses and literacy tests in the South. These were all ways to try and prevent African Americans from [...]

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