Cabarrus Cheap Seats

The Primaries are over - it’s time to show that we’re putting the kids first…by putting filing for School Board Candidates last.
At the midpoint of filing…here they are…your candidates for 4 four-year terms and the remaining two years of Liz Poole’s term…so far:
Republicans: incumbent: Holly Blackwelder; previous candidates: David Harrison and Lew Davidson; newcomers: Robert [...]

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According to Sunday’s Cabarrus Neighbors: The County Commissioners have a choice - fund the jails or fund the schools:
The county’s properties were revaluated this year, so if commissioners vote to keep a 63-cent tax rate, residents would have an effective tax increase of 11 cents per $100 valuation. The county would receive an additional $22.7 [...]

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This is from the School Bond thread.
It’s been 7 years or so since the passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Good, bad, or indifferent?

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I’m a relative newcomer to Cabarrus County, and one of the things that stuck me as unusual was that Cabarrus county does not allow parents any say in what schools their children attend.
My wife and I live very close to the Pitts School Road Elementary School, and we are forunate, because we really like it [...]

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OK, a lot has happened since we last visited this:

Jim Johnson has filed for Fletcher Hartsell’s seat. Will Hartsell set a record for beating the greatest number of people in an election?
There’s a primary fight in the GOP. Liz Poole and Marcy Hiers filed. That makes it a four-way race for two [...]

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I wrote a letter to the editor endorsing Liz Poole and I’d like to share it with y’all. Often, we forget about the School Board candidates at the bottom of the ballot. However, they make important decisions regarding the spending of our taxes and the education of our children.
Here’s the letter about Liz:

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The challenge in controlling development is as simple as this: the local government has a responsibility to provide entitlements to its citizens and a responsibility to protect property rights.
Simple doesn’t always mean easy.
Rights vs. Entitlements
There are those who believe that rights and entitlements are the same thing; but the difference is significant enough to cause [...]

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No, not me.
Local Blogger Thomas Hill (Cabarrus Critic and Restore Our Republic) is running for the Cabarrus County School Board.

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When I saw the Cabarrus Neighbors today, I expected there to be a firestorm of condemnations of the Cabarrus County School Board from the protectors of “the taxpayers” (AKA “senior citizens and working families”, AKA “everybody”). Last month, Coy Privette, Harold Smith, and others weren’t slow to tell the Independent Tribune what they thought about [...]

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Most of us who work in the private sector have bosses. The story of how our bosses got there are all unique; but generally they all have some things in common:

Usually our bosses are more experienced at some aspect of the job than their subordinates are.
They usually have some training in the job of their [...]

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