Friday Five: Roads, dirt, college basketball and poor customer service

Surprise, surprise – there’s more construction and I have something to complain about.

Somebody get in touch with Creedence Clearwater Revival and find out if they ever figured out “Who’ll Stop the Rain?”

Let’s go back and forth a bit from the past to the present and look toward the future in today’s Friday Five.

Reaction to Wednesday’s announcement that the old Philip Morris buildings would be torn down was pretty quick and varied from our readers, esp…

It looks like widening of N.C. 73 between Concord and Huntersville is on the horizon. Here are few of the details for the proposed road improvements.

The business and real estate landscape in Cabarrus County seems to change with each passing day, so today’s Friday Five will deal with some of those.

There’s plenty to talk about this week with road construction, new stores and always somebody doing something to irritate.

Any way you slice it, business is booming in Cabarrus County.  This week we’ll take a look at some of the raw numbers from 2018.

Between the wind, the rain, construction and new business, we’ve got a lot to talk about today.

A little progress has been made this week on several fronts.

Preparations for the 2020 U.S. Census are underway and it is in everyone’s best interest that you and all your neighbors are counted.

Spring has sprung and there’s lot to be done. It’s not like there hasn’t been a lot going on in spite of the crazy weather including lots of c…

It’s exciting to see some of things that are happening in our community, but on the flipside some of it might not all be good for everyone.

There’s always more news than we can report and sometimes a good story gets pushed to the back burner for a while. Leonard Conell Coleman is o…

It might be hard to imagine what traffic is going to look like when all the projects currently underway are completed.

Relief may be on the way for one traffic headache in Concord; the messy intersection of Cabarrus Avenue/Union Cemetery Road/Concord Parkway (U…

The biggest perk in working for a newspaper is all the wonderful people you meet. I met a bunch of folks this week backstage at the NorthEast …

Besides circulation the most complaints I get is about the editorial page. So today’s Friday Five is about questions and complaints about poli…

Campaigns are in full swing and early voting for the Nov. 6 election is less than two weeks away. What better time to get out some information…

There’s more than we can do and mostly that’s a good thing.

The dairy farm turned world’s largest cigarette manufacturing plant, turned cutting edge battery technology plant is now The Grounds at Concor…

Is anyone else in full-blown weather fatigue?

I love the fair. I’ve been going to the Cabarrus County Fair since 1984. My fair-going days date back to 1978 and my first trip to the N.C. St…

The past couple of Friday Fives have generated a good bit of feedback and discussion, so this week let’s follow-up a bit.

Today’s Friday Five started out as the worst five intersections in the county but as I started thinking about them and talking with people, I …

Today’s Friday Five is questions I get asked all the time.

Week 2 of the Friday Five brings us five more things – actually five fives.

Today we are debuting a new feature called the Friday Five, in which we list five items of interest. We’re hoping our readers will share their…