Cabarrus Cheap Seats

No Friday Five today. [CLICK HERE TO CATCH UP ON THE ONES YOU MISSED]
In an interview this week with Hugh Fisher of the Kannapolis Citizen, Coy named former Cabarrus County Commissioner Robert Freeman as his choice as a replacement for the seat that he said he would relinquish following the sale of his house [...]

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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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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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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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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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Here was the question:
From 1999 to 2004, the majority of the county’s debt load moved abruptly from voter-approved bonds to non-voter approved instruments. Debt service is the fastest growing part of the budget and is the only major part of the budget significantly outpacing population growth and inflation. With these debt service payments taking up [...]

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Each month, I make a bet. I bet that I will total my car, that my house will be robbed, that I will need open heart surgery, and I will die within 6 weeks.
Of course, I regularly (and happily) lose this bet. Progressive Insurance, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and NC Farm Bureau end up [...]

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Harold Smith reacts to an idea considered by Bob Carruth regarding using user fees to avoid future tax cuts. The Independent Tribune came out against such fees. Here’s Harold’s Response:
July 10, 2005: No User Fees
I agree with the editorial in today’s (7-10-05) Independent Tribune. User fees are a bad idea. Robert Freeman’s quote is correct. [...]

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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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