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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What I find most interesting about this debate is that the one person leading this charge locally against incentives is someone who benefited greatly from tax incentives: Coy Privette. As a minister, his salary was made possible entirely by the tax-deductible contributions of his parishioners. They paid their taxes, and after the filed their returns [...]

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To My Dear Harold Smith devotees,
I know you earnestly want to believe that what he says is true; but don’t believe it unless he has some external references. Otherwise, you might believe that having become a Republican “recently” means doing so in the last 50 years.
Take for instance what he’s recently said about Grace Mynatt
Grace [...]

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Golden Gait Trailers will relocate to Kannapolis next year [link to story] . The company is looking to more than double it’s workforce in the next few years and they are going to do it in Kannapolis. 
So, a $4 million-dollar facility will be built, employing about 100 people when it comes to full-speed. The City [...]

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