3 new articles for Carolina Weekly Newspapers

It's a banner week for me and the freelancing. Two front-page stories in University City Weekly, (the big feature article on the Newell farmers market, and a follow-up on the fatal police chase from Concord Mills, to do with the officers in the chase being cleared of any wrongdoing). I have a third article also, on the most recent Cornelius Board of Commissioners Meeting.

I'm rapidly learning part of my function is to condense information and make things interesting that appear not to be, even a little bit. Case in point, this is a typical Cornelius Board of Commissioners Meeting:

"blah blah blah blah blah blah blah budget blah blah blah blah blah blah blah town blah blah blah blah blah blah blah petition blah blah blah blah blah blah blah potholes blah blah blah blah blah blah blah sidewalks blah blah blah blah blah blah blah"

SERIOUSLY.

I condense that so it sounds better, and by the time you're done with it, the understanding is: "The town of Cornelius spent almost two thousand dollars on a traffic study that offers no solutions, and the consultants required to make sense of this poor information will cost even more money."

I expect this is a phrase you will hear me say often, so enjoy its novelty this one time: Your tax dollars hard at work.