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Spirited Discussion About Life in Cabarrus County, North Carolina

Incomplete Proposal

January 5th, 2006 · Comments Off

So, if you’ve been following this blog, you’ll notice that someone who appears to be Coy Privette has been responding to some of my posts, and challenging some of the conclusions I made during my review of BOC meeting minutes from the last 5 years. Mainly that I missed an important “proposal” he made to [...]

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Tags: Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners · Cabarrus County Jail

Politics in an Odd-Numbered Year XXXII: The Jail Blame Game

December 27th, 2005 · 3 Comments

Just in time for the 2006 Primary season, Harold Smith presents us with 2 more issues to be the topics du jour before Republicans and Independents go to the polls to select the Republican nominees for Cabarrus County Commission.
The County Jail and John Day:
 
December 11, 2005: Who Was Negligent in Jail Project? 
Who is responsible? John [...]

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Tags: Cabarrus County Jail

Politics in an Odd-Numbered Year XXXI: The Cover-Up That Wasn’t

December 11th, 2005 · Comments Off

There’s a cover-up! Well, there might be one. Anyhow, whenever there’s a suspicion of a cover-up Harold always conveniently has a letter handy. Here goes:
Open letter to John Day, Cabarrus County Manager
The letter below from the State Chief of Jails ask you why you have not looked at two options to solving the jail overcrowding.
Why [...]

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Tags: Cabarrus County Jail

Counter Point: Coy Privette and Robert Freeman Editorial in This Week’s Independent Tribune

June 27th, 2005 · Comments Off

In an attempt to be fair and balanced, I’m posting the editorial that ran in today’s and Sunday’s Independent Tribune from Robert Freeman and Coy Privette. If you read through both of these, you will have been exposed to just about the entire content of the campaign rhetoric for the 2006 Cabarrus County Commissioner’s race. [...]

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Tags: Ancient History · Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners

Politics in An Odd-Numbered Year

May 29th, 2005 · Comments Off

For my first post, I figured I’d tackle something that has been bugging me and other people in my community. The website of Harold Smith. More specifically the content of the site. Filtering through the grammar mistakes, someone who knows the facts usually reads in disbelief and moves on. It’s easy enough to dismiss the [...]

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Tags: Ancient History · Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners