Cabarrus Cheap Seats

Guest Speaker: CATHY HEATH Founder, STOP -NC- ANNEXATION
Meeting Time: 7PM
Place: Troutman’s BBQ on US601 Bypass [CLICK HERE FOR DIRECTIONS]
Come early for $7 BBQ Buffet and to meet the people who just might be helping to pick Coy’s replacement. That’s right, even though North Carolina Law is very explicit about the process, Coy Privette thinks [...]

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Brief Programming Note: Locusts have conspired against me and kept me away from ye olde blog the past two days. I’ll have the Friday Five and the remainder of the Odell Incorporation series tomorrow.

THE CABARRUS GOP MEN’S CLUB invites you to meet and hear a 20 member team of TEEN CHALLENGE
TEEN CHALLENGE began in 1958, [...]

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UPDATE (SUNDAY, JULY 29, 2007): HUGH FISHER OF THE SAILSBURY POST WROTE A GREAT ARTICLE ON THIS MEETING - CLICK HERE TO READ.

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“Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.” - Robert W. Sarnoff 
Update Note [April 23, 2007]: I figure since The Cabarrus Youth Tax: How Your Kids Might Pay For Their Own Schools became the most read article on this blog over the past couple of weeks, I would re-run [...]

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A Brief Programming Note
Because of some commitments between tonight and Sunday night, I will not be able to update this blog or get to approving any comments until the end of the weekend.
It’s part of a post-election deal I made with my wife.
Diminishing Returns
About 8% of the County bothered to show up for the Primary [...]

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Before I get started, let’s consider a term - RINO or “Republican In Name Only”. What makes one officially a Republican is to go down to the Board of Election office and to register as one. However, Republicans themselves have differing criteria for when to consider someone else a Republican. When a Republican doesn’t meet [...]

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“I have no problem whatsoever letting the future pay for schools” - Coy Privette 
Oh, yes, you heard that right: Coy is interested in mortgaging the future. In all honesty, I thought of using the term “Cabarrus Youth Tax” as an illustration of how the debt that Coy Privette, Richard Suggs, and Robert Freeman arranged when [...]

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After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. - 2 Corinthians 12:14 
Update: Read the Latest Post on the “Anatomy of The Cabarrus Youth Tax” to find out just how much this tax is - CLICK HERE TO READ ARTICLE
In 2003, I was named to the Cabarrus [...]

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In a poll released last week by the North Carolina Center for Voter Education, more NC Voters could identify recent American Idol winner Carrie Underwood than they could Attorney General Roy Cooper.
In their article, they postulate that public financing would take the pressure off of candidates; but I have another idea. A review of the [...]

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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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