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Politics in an Odd-Numbered Year X: Odell Stops that Big, Yellow Taxi and Skips on the Fare

July 17th, 2005 · Comments Off

Kannapolis probably won’t get the land acquisition rights that it wanted. This past week, Representative Barnhart said that he wouldn’t support a measure sponsored by Senator Hartsell at the behest of Kannapolis officials expanding annexation rights for the City of Kannapolis. Bills limited to local interests usually don’t go anywhere without the unanimous consent of [...]

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Politics in An Odd-Numbered Year III: Petitioning the Government for a redress of grievances (or just hitting the “Forward” button)

June 7th, 2005 · Comments Off

On his site, Harold Smith posted two articles of interest which are related. On June 1, he made an appeal to website visitors to sign an on-line petition opposing the proposed tax increase. Now, I didn’t sign it, because I believe the county’s explanation of why the taxes need to go up, and some of [...]

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