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	12/21/2005

Rockingham County's only respected newspaper

From the Neely (read Rockingham) Chronicle:

A picture named stephaniecokebudgetgirl[1].jpg This is Stephanie Coke. Stephanie is County Manager Tom Robinson's newest Girl Friday....

Stephanie worked for the City of Charlotte before coming to work in Neely County. Commissioners Owens and Isley will be relieved to know Stephanie now lives in Greensboro and she will not be a major burden on Neely County's natural resources, nor is she likely to want to build a cheap home near the Bethany (read Greensboro) National Golf Course. Stephanie will most likely spend her Neely County salary in Greensboro which is infested with population and all manner of supply and demand for goods and service. Poor Stephanie.

Stephanie said she moved to Greensboro because she doesn't know if she could have made a direct transition from the very metropolitan Charlotte to the very rural Neely County. Greensboro is sort of a decompression chamber for Stephanie. Incredibly, Stephanie doesn't seem to be interested in living in the bucolic illusion being created by Commissioners Jerry Owens and David Isley

10:35:54 PM

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Learning Life Skills in Rockingham County, North Carolina

Don't read the N&R seriously enough. This article came to me via one of the manufacturing lobbyists in DC who I worked together with on the near defeat of CAFTA.

Reading the sarcasm into the article's words the manufacturing lobbyist chose to put into boldface type, I think his intended message boils down to this:

$2.85 million of State and county taxpayer dollars were spent to build a new community college building that was sold to the public as retraining resource for displaced textile, furniture and tobacco workers. Top skills to learn at the faciliy which is "fully wired for technology" are listed as:

Adult basic education and literacy;

Entrepreneurial skills;

Job skills to work for companies expanding or moving to the area; (which is not many if you read the Rockingham County's only respected paper.)

Law enforcement training

A human resources development program, which helps students with self-esteem, motivation and resume preparation.

10:25:48 PM

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The um...Constitution

Via the Libertarian Party of North Carolina news group...

Video of President Bush responding to the press on where he gets the authority to spy on Americans without a court order:

"My legal authority is derived from um...the Constitution."

7:46:07 PM

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