Cabarrus Cheap Seats

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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Once again, only the Republican candidates responded. Here the question:
If elected, what is your plan for building the schools needed for the next decade?
And here are links to the answers:
Coy Privette
>Grace Mynatt
>Jay White

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There’s an old joke about people who mess with numbers for a living. A manager had three numbers people working for him: a mathematician, an engineer, and an accountant. He realized that there were some communications differences - so he’d thought he’d ask a question of each of them and see what kind of answer [...]

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Given the current talk about the schools and this idea that’s being pushed that they aren’t frugal - I did a little studying during the bond campaign in 2004 and wrote this letter to the editor of the Cabarrus Neighbors in July 2004. The data that this letter was based on was from the 2002-2003 [...]

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OK, about 50% of my posts are in response to the madness found on www.goharoldsmith.com. So, I’m going to try and tackle each of his new claims in as few words as possible. Let’s see how I do.
Claim #1: We’re building designer schools at unreasonably high prices
April 1, 2006: Why do our schools cost so [...]

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