Parents Push Back on E.E. Miller Changes, PFAS Next Steps, and the Candidate Outreach Scorecard

Peter Pappas: Well everyone, good evening and welcome to the Carolina Cabinet. I'm your host, Peter Pappas, in studio with the lovely Laura Musler. Hello, hello. And joining us off camera right now is the illustrious judge Toni King. Okay. So Laura, been a busy weekend. What you been up to? I did have a very busy weekend taking care of all kinds of stuff. I was supposed to go to this bulk festival and watch it, but I never had the Yeah, I did somebody did text you and say, Hey, you should come to the festival. You're absolutely right that I had to take go run money all the way out to all my ATMs and stuff. So Duty calls. Duty calls. Yeah. Okay. Job before fun. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Well, you did miss I you I'm actually not sunburned anymore. Yeah. Somehow I managed, you know, to be out there for like two hours and complete lobster. White white waste. Big time. Big time. Yeah. But it was it was of course you do. So it was very well attended, it seemed like. And I got there for the parade and Was Portugal represented? Because I'm Portuguese and next year I want to make sure Portugal is You know what? I think Portugal was there. Really? I think so. Now I did get there late, so I'm kind of a international folk festival dropout. Like I don't think I didn't get there right all time, but you and your guests had two nations. Rec recognized. I told I told D, you can w walk with the Filipinos. Give me the girls, they can walk with the Greeks. Wow. You know. But hey, you know. But we didn't make it early enough for either one of those. So, you know, that's that's typical Peter. Not gonna be on time. food was good. You know, there was good entertainment. They had dancers, they had concert. I mean it was a really really lieutenant. we stuck to the the Thai booth, I think. We had no, you know. I I was sitting and this isn't anything against the food down there, but I was sitting like on the curb eating and I was like, I'd rather just go to Baldino's right now. I just you know, like I just want to sell sticky rice in Thai food. Well, so so let me Toni, go ahead and put your where are those headphones? Let's see, since here, those are hers. Yeah, try that. So can you hear us well in there? I can hear you great. All right, so we always usually just start off with like what we did last week or so or weekend. So fill us in. What you been up to last weekend. last weekend a lot was going on. certainly coming off of the different things I did with the youth. Okay. I know you're very busy with that. Mm-hmm. I was fortunate enough to be invited to celebrate Women's Day and ever needs microphones and intermediate. So I did that. that was on Sunday. That was on Sunday. Okay. Saturday is kind of a blur. You know that I've had a meeting. I drove by the International book then. yeah, so it was pretty good. It was a busy yeah, well you do stay busy and we're gonna get to that. So we so here's what's gonna work. I didn't really talk to you much about this, but we're gonna go through our live and then we're gonna do your segment where it'll be just recorded and people have stuck up and click. But we do have guests tonight and I wanna bring them into the studio. My boy. Mother. That's my fine but I didn't put on silent because, you know, I'm I'm a horrible host. So okay. Let me go ahead and bring in so the first topic we wanted to discuss tonight is gonna be dealing with Cumberland County Schools. these are things we heard. Enhance quality, remove barriers, you know, what's relevant to the job market. That's what the district's language uses, and that's from Assistant Superintendent Lavette Breswell and Chief Academic Officer Toni Leathers. But parents at the eighteenth work session heard something different. And A program they moved their kids into was being taken away. So well, Michelle Caratrez spoke at the September eighteenth work section and Santana called E. E. Millercut heartbreaking. Cazaras, do I have to say Casaras? Is that is that how Cazares asked pointedly, What do you tell families, especially military families who were new to this area or someone who relocated for transportation purposes? I purchased a home in the immediate area. Put that same question back to her life and let her expand in her own words. So there you go. So, Michelle, what what do we do with that? What do we tell somebody that relocated for transportation or purchased a home and all of a sudden that program's no longer there? Okay. Yasso, Yasso. okay, good. We got a fellow member of the tribe. I like it. Okay. Greek-xican

Michelle Cazarez: There, Yasu Peter. I'm Greek myself. Yes. Yes, I'm I'm Greek as well. yeah. married Mexican, so we got Greeks and babies. But yeah. We we're a military family and it kind of it felt like a a tough luck situation.

Peter Pappas: Okay.

Michelle Cazarez: And so, but we did not buy in our district, but I know many who did to have that year-round calendar. And

Peter Pappas: Okay.

Michelle Cazarez: so In my advocacy, I don't obviously what's fueled the fire was my personal me, my family being personally affected by these changes. But

Peter Pappas: Mm-hmm.

Michelle Cazarez: then

Michel Santana: Yeah.

Michelle Cazarez: I start advocating for those who have different stories, but similar to mine, right? And so buying a house is not easy. Buying a house is not cheap. Moving around every few years is not easy or cheap either on anyone fiscally or emotionally. And so I've actually been attending the choice fair. for my now middle schooler for two years because I do take his education very seriously. And so there are many families, and you know, Michelle's well, one of them who who have younger kids that will be starting E. E. Miller in a couple

Peter Pappas: Okay.

Michelle Cazarez: of years. And it it's just not fair. It's not fair to them when you our county wants to start Nourishing our future, maybe introducing trade programs at middle and high school, just exposure. So why does that not matter at an elementary school level as well? And and essentially that's what we're trying to do for our kids.

Peter Pappas: Right. Well let me ask you this. What's the choice fair The ch Okay, go ahead. What's the choice Fair

Michelle Cazarez: The choice fair is essentially everyone it's been at E.E. Smith. every school in the county is represented by a booth. Usually the administrative staff is there. You get brochures as families, you get to interview the schools on why what makes them great candidates for your family. What do they have to offer that's outside of the, I guess, regular scope of n of education in our county? It's just it's more specialized

Michel Santana: I don't need to.

Michelle Cazarez: programs.

Peter Pappas: Okay. So how long have you been involved with Cumberland County Schools? How long have you been here as a parent?

Michelle Cazarez: I have been a parent since two thousand twenty one when we

Peter Pappas: Okay. How about Michelle?

Michelle Cazarez: moved from Florida.

Peter Pappas: How about you? Other Michelle.

Michel Santana: We've been here since Well, my son's been in school since twenty nineteen in Cumberland County.

Peter Pappas: Okay. Okay. So you've definitely you you both have been here long enough to see some trends. What is what is it like from your side? the way that the administration responded or the way the school board responded? Did you make contacts? How did this all how did you make your displeasure known, I guess?

Michel Santana: Well, I need signs.

Peter Pappas: You made signs? Okay. Okay.

Michel Santana: Yeah. And I contacted every parent that I knew a phone number. I was like, Hey, this is happening, please email. Please let them know what's happen we don't want this and then another parent gave me more numbers and I was texting everybody I knew. I was like, Please email, like let them know we don't want this

Peter Pappas: Okay.

Michel Santana: and I mean that's what we did.

Peter Pappas: Okay, so you did so you made signs, you emailed Michelle, what anything that you what contact I I'm concerned with what we see right now. We have sixteen people running for school board, there's three seats,

Michelle Cazarez: Mm.

Peter Pappas: okay? So a lot of people out here they want transparency, they want that's the buzzword, but what did it look like for you all?

Michelle Cazarez: What does transparency look like or what does communication look like?

Peter Pappas: Do you feel like they communicated, were they transparent with you ahead of time before they decided to go into the session and just yank these programs?

Michelle Cazarez: So it was later asked at a separate meeting if our principal had been brought into that conversation before we even got that voicemail in February when we were notified that a a program was changing and she wasn't. So

Peter Pappas: Mm-hmm.

Michelle Cazarez: I think at minimum our principals to the affected schools should be brought into the conversation so they can just know what's going on in their schools. Like if the principals don't know then what who else doesn't?

Peter Pappas: Right. I would think that's the first one you'd want to go to and say, hey, we're gonna end a program. How do they know I

Michelle Cazarez: That's the mom and daddies of the school.

Peter Pappas: was gonna say, how do they know to end a program if they're not even discussing the people that are in the school do you program? Do either one of you have any background as to why they wanted to close these programs? No.

Michel Santana: No.

Peter Pappas: No rhyme or ring. Okay. Okay. Well, we gotta change

Michelle Cazarez: E. E. Miller's a very well performing school. So to

Peter Pappas: that. We're gonna come in the county. We don't want anybody performing well. Yeah. Yeah, let's change that.

Michelle Cazarez: Much less

Peter Pappas: Yeah.

Michelle Cazarez: having a non traditional calendar or knowing a second language. Don't do that.

Peter Pappas: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, that'd be horrible. Yeah. well again, I wanted you all here this evening just to talk to us a little bit about your experience. how did you feel in the room when you got up and spoke at the board meeting? Did you feel you were bor you were listened to? Was everybody on their cell phones? What was your feeling about that?

Michelle Cazarez: If I could rewind a little bit. So I've I have spoken to a reporter and some of the recommendations that I made back in February seem to have been listened to.

Peter Pappas: Okay.

Michelle Cazarez: and then even at the I felt like I was heard. I don't know if everything will be implemented, but you know, I got my three minutes, told my story. So I felt like I was given the same respect as anyone else who has spoken about different topics. I didn't feel like It was like, here's that year-round lady. I I didn't get that anyway. And I appreciate that. And members of the board have contacted me, reached out to to not only me, but honestly, I just want to give a shout out to Toni Stewart, our little organizer of this whole thing. She's really the one that kind of like me and her kind of started at the race at the same time, but she has more more fuel. But when when she spoke in, people have contacted us in support of learning more. They will some of the board members have said, hey, this information was presented one way, but after talking to you, it's not the case. I want to know more. So that I appreciate. You may not have the answers and you may get it wrong the first time. Admit you messed up. We're all human. I I was the PTO president last year during a foundational year. So I understand that in certain in positions of power You're not gonna always get it right and you're not gonna make everyone happy. At minimum, they should at least be heard because that is your duty as someone in leadership, is to is to listen and delegate out to the people who are supporting you and on your team.

Peter Pappas: Okay. So ultimately have they reversed the decision at this point? Or are they still

Michelle Cazarez: Miller is staying at least Miller is staying year round and they're keeping Spanish until they try to do it again. 'Cause ten years ago they tried to put back on the traditional calendar as well.

Peter Pappas: But again, there's no there was no procuring there was no reason why they started to say, hey, let's shut these things down. It wasn't made known.

Michelle Cazarez: The reason the just their justification was, well, we're closing chestnut and raw, so why have an elementary school? We're getting rid of middle and high. Why bother with elementary? And but then after they heard us, they're like, Okay, we can do it. It's in the budget. We'll we'll keep y'all open if y'all want it that much.

Peter Pappas: Well, closing the elementary would that be because they have declining enrollment? I mean, are they Go ahead. Switching. Okay. gotcha. Okay. Well

Michelle Cazarez: I'm sorry, not closing elementary, switching the calendar. I I misspoke. Apologies for that. Yes.

Peter Pappas: that's still a big upheaval for the families. I mean, going from year round to a regular schedule, that's a big deal.

Michelle Cazarez: Well again, military,

Peter Pappas: Yeah.

Michelle Cazarez: going back to the military aspect and even non-military benefits from this, but we don't deal with as much slumerslide that a lot of traditional schools deal with. That first quarterback,

Peter Pappas: Mm-hmm.

Michelle Cazarez: you're just catching up from the grade they left. We don't deal with that. The our kids can jump in and just pick pick right back up where they're where they left

Peter Pappas: Okay.

Michelle Cazarez: off. But also our wallets don't hurt as much because we're not trying to, you know, fly here to see family. In California or down south, we can just plan out our family visits according to the intercessions that were afforded.

Peter Pappas: Sure. Okay. I mean, you're Greek. Your family didn't have a restaurant that you just had to go work in. I mean that's what? She's one of the people. I gotta say that, you know. Yeah, yeah. I get it. Yeah. Well that would be

Michelle Cazarez: Right. No, we get it. Absolutely. Yeah, I get it. Yeah.

Peter Pappas: like me saying to a a a fellow Hispanic resident, you don't have a lawn care business to go ahead and just like, you know Okay. Well you say your lawn care thing, I say the restaurant thing. That's the way it works. that's okay 'cause I'm brown and you're great. See that's it. So So where do we go from here? What what do parents need to know going forward? Like is there a group that you all are part of that maybe they should join to learn more about this and stay in touch with each other?

Michelle Cazarez: Absolutely. So on Facebook there we do have a Facebook group called it's like Cumberland County Save Our Schools. That's where we post a lot of updates to keep up with this,

Peter Pappas: Okay.

Michelle Cazarez: with our mission. I'm sorry, what was the second part of the question? I got so consumed with the Facebook.

Peter Pappas: that's okay, that's okay. So basically you know, w where people find you and what they need to do as parents. and Michelle jump in, jump in there, you know.

Michelle Cazarez: What they need to do, yes, please.

Peter Pappas: Miss Santana.

Michel Santana: What they need to do. I think it's just stay

Peter Pappas: Yeah, like what would you like to see other parents do? Yeah.

Michelle Cazarez: Tell them what they need to do.

Michel Santana: informed and like for example Toni called me like on a Tuesday and the meeting was on Friday and she's like, Hey, like you need to come to this meeting and stuff and I was like, What? I didn't even know a meeting was happening. And like Yeah.

Peter Pappas: okay. Well let's pause right there. So you mean the meeting had not been scheduled a week ahead of time, it just kind of got scheduled on a Wednesday for Friday?

Michel Santana: I'm not sure when but I know Toni had called me and she's like, Hey like this this meeting is happening and I need you like you know, I need you to be informed and I was like, my god, like I'm doing a terrible job as a parent.

Peter Pappas: Okay.

Michel Santana: I'm not staying informed And then, you know, we went from there.

Peter Pappas: Okay. Well, so it sounds like we all need to be looking at our school board. it

Michel Santana: Yeah.

Peter Pappas: I mean, I'm sure you all are on like email lists. I mean, don't does the school have like email updates like, hey parents, or I mean, what do you get as a parent?

Michel Santana: we I have to check my emails 'cause I'm terrible at that, but there was also in the meeting saying something about like a survey of the parents and

Peter Pappas: Right.

Michel Santana: I don't remember getting a survey about ending Spanish immersion at EE.

Michelle Cazarez: That would have stuck out.

Michel Santana: Yeah.

Michelle Cazarez: And our so we as elementary parents, we're on dojo a lot. And I

Michel Santana: Yeah.

Peter Pappas: Okay, okay.

Michelle Cazarez: think that would be something the the county should expect the school to put out. Like if there's a survey of that magnitude and don't the the consolidation how what how did they they they named our School consolidation and facility recommendation. That's the plan, right? I understand that's an umbrella term for all the things going on in the county, but once there are schools directly affected by these changes, that's when that information should trickle out to those specific schools and tell us what it is they're looking for. So then those I think if some of that verbiage was a little bit more simplified and clear, more people would have s started listening sooner. Cause this was done in October, November. But we didn't catch wind of it until it was thrown on the agenda last minute in February. So yes. Yeah.

Peter Pappas: That's that seems scary to me.

Michelle Cazarez: It was.

Peter Pappas: But yeah. Okay. Well making the comment. that is actually that's Toni Stewart. okay. And I have to wonder, is that the same Toni Stewart I ran against? I don't know. That's gotta be a different Toni Stewart. Okay. I that's why

Michelle Cazarez: No, it is a different one. She said, I'm on a ballot.

Peter Pappas: Yeah. yeah. I I hadn't friended her because I'm like, I don't know. Would she accept my friend request? 'Cause, you know, sour grapes and all. But anyway, so one thing I do wanna point out I've already said it, you know, sixteen people running for three seats. and I don't want you all to tell me, but have you met some of the candidates for school board? Or do you in your own pocket maybe have some favorites? But I don't want to know their names, but have you at least heard anything coming? No. No course you do.

Michelle Cazarez: I'll give you the T off screen. I got you. No.

Peter Pappas: yeah, yeah, yeah. Send us the tea, yeah.

Michelle Cazarez: So I appreciate there is a candidate who joined our fight without us asking them to. They just

Peter Pappas: Okay. Okay, that's good.

Michelle Cazarez: started making videos and they were supportive of our mission. And so I knew I had somebody with a voice locked in.

Peter Pappas: Mm-hmm.

Michelle Cazarez: one of the best things when you are advocating is to have people who can just pick up a job without being asked to, and they just run with it.

Michel Santana: Yeah, I think I've only

Peter Pappas: Agreed.

Michel Santana: seen one person in our Facebook group

Peter Pappas: Male or female?

Michel Santana: male. I mean, I think it's public, right? The group? It is.

Peter Pappas: Okay. I think I know. Yeah. It is public. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Yeah, just

Michelle Cazarez: It is. I'm just trying to honor Peter's request.

Peter Pappas: you know, I well I'm here too. Hey, I want to know. So I will say so the where the

Michel Santana: I think that's

Michelle Cazarez: Yes, Laura, I got you.

Peter Pappas: I originated that to get to here. So on the cabinet I have and one of our segments here in just a moment, if y'all want to hang out, it's fine. we have made a lot of outreach to the sixteen and I have a list of people that have responded, not responded. anything. I've even had a couple that no showed twice on me. So you know, I I feel like it's important with that much, that large of a field of candidates that they make themselves available and visible. some of them didn't even have a phone number or email at the Board of Elections.

Michelle Cazarez: The phone number is that that it that tells me you don't want to be contacted by the people you represent. And they even if it's an oversight, but how many there's several. It's almost half of them don't have phone numbers, if I'm not mistaken. It could be s I think it's slightly less.

Peter Pappas: I managed to find where I felt comfortable with the outreach, but it was not that's I mean, Judge King, that's probably fundamental

Michelle Cazarez: If I can't contact you

Peter Pappas: of run running for office is you want to be able to be reached. That's I would think. That's kind of an important thing. Yeah.

Michelle Cazarez: If I can't contact them now, I don't I don't think I can contact them if they're in office. So they're really doing themselves a disservice.

Peter Pappas: Right. You don't want to actually talk to the constituents. Well, we'll go down the nice and naughty list here in just a minute. but if you do go to our website or our page, you will see other episodes with as many people as I've already published, that are running. So I've worked pretty hard to try to get as many people to come through these doors to sit with us and try to convince people we're

Michelle Cazarez: Thank you.

Peter Pappas: not the devil here, you know, like they think Laura's mean or I'm mean or something and you know I am. Yeah, yeah. Well I I had this I I was no, no, she's gonna be nice and I was the one that was mean that night. So, you know, sometimes it's tag team. We do. So well, ladies, I appre I'm just gonna put you off screen now, but I appreciate you being here this evening. If y'all wanna stay and just watch through your link, you sure can. And

Michelle Cazarez: Okay.

Peter Pappas: we're just gonna keep it rolling. So thank you, ladies. It's very nice to meet you both

Michelle Cazarez: All right. Well thanks for having us, Peter.

Michel Santana: Thanks for having us.

Peter Pappas: and staying involved. Look forward to having you back in the future.

Michelle Cazarez: Thank you, Laura.

Peter Pappas: Thank you.

Michelle Cazarez: All right. Good night.

Peter Pappas: Kind of scary that the kids just I mean, they just get a message in February like, Hey, we're closing your kids program. Yeah. Yeah. So wouldn't want to talk to anybody. You want to talk about PFAS? Do I? Not really. The lawsuit phase is over, so now we have a master plans. Hundred and sixty one dollar one hundred and sixty one and a half million dollar settlement. existing state and federal money for Cedar Creek, Ray's Creek. How many homes, how many pipes, what total price? When's the completion? Well, for a family that's on a contaminated well, at some point, another engineering can sound like it's just another delay. I mean, what happens between now and this the the day the clean public water actually reaches the house? What what does that look like? Well, and I hate to be impatient, you know, but it's this is a health problem that we've been dealing with for years. how are we impatient? It's been like, you know. Yeah, I know. But the the lawsuit now just got settled. This part of the lawsuit. now the county did unanimously last week. They authorized one point three million dollars engineering and source study. So what they're gonna do is they're gonna go hire hire an outside engineer. But but he what is it? Two hundred thousand has been earmarked for an exploratory well. So it sounds like they are digging into the aquifer. We had Commissioner Adams here talking about dig in the aquifer to bypass the Cape River water. Okay. So and the town of Stedman apparently has a well that probably needs to be replaced. So that's part of that one point three million. So we're getting there. Just not fast enough for the people that have already been drinking for I was gonna say yeah for those people that are you know getting cancer and dying we'll go So you know the big Yeah no no good. Don't drink the water. But but no we're making progress and it's at least heading in the right direction. So look I'm gonna skip the next segment. I don't want to talk about these two guys. I don't like either one of them to move the thing. So time to move fast. There's five stories, no arguments, just the facts and mistakes. So let's get to rapid fire. Or actually I know we're gonna talk about this candidate. Let's go down the candidate list. Yeah. But we have to do this discompassionately. I'm I'm very discompassionate. I I cannot be emotional about No, because we got Republicans here that aren't answering either, so it's not like we're being any kind of way. I'll say the office and you say what happened. How about that? Sure. Okay. Cumberland Sheriff. Okay, well look Bru Wyndham, he has appeared. Troy McDuffie is invited and he actually booked and then he canceled. And then he booked again. And then in a special session he's booking in off again so we can't. He's coming this this week. Now I I didn't change that, but yeah, he's coming this week. Yeah. But we'll see him sooner or later. Well he did he and LaRue both have appeared, but it was before I think it was before the primary primary. That's why. So they haven't appeared since him already. Yeah. Yeah, he was unopposed. Right. Okay. North Carolina Supreme Court. Okay, Anita Earle, she booked. And she will be in a session special session on October first. And then Sarah Stevens, the Republican, invited, silent. No response, nothing, not a word. Mm-mm. Mm-hmm. Court of Appeal, seat one. Michael Byrne. He was he's booked for October 10th or 12th, I'm sorry. And then John Arrowhead is invited four times. And he has been silent. And the invitation is still hamps. Calm down. We're ready to hear what you have to say. Well, seat two. Okay. There we go. Toby Ham Hampson. Hampson. Yeah. Hampson has appeared on the show. George Cooper Bell. No record of outreach. No nothing, haven't heard anything. Republicans are slacking. We all wanna you all wanna flip things which don't show up. Come on. C three. Craig Collins is booked for again October twelfth. Christine Marie Walchek. Is that how say that? Yeah. She's invited four times and then she declined via her campaign manager saying that she has scheduling issues. Well, it's an open invitation for whatever day is good for you. So you must have a very busy schedule. Very busy schedule, yeah. But let's get down to local here. So we have Superior Court, fourteen A. Well, Rob Pasting he's books for October twelfth October thir nineteenth. I can read. This is good. Stephen Craig Scopes is invited four times and we got nothing. Still open. We got openings. Come on down. You're the next contestant. But tonight we do have Ms. King and Rosalind Hood. Coming to see us. So is that the same court? What is it? Okay. All right. So yeah. Fourteen. Okay, no assigned seats. Okay. Okay. Commission District One. Sheila Coffee. She's invited four times. And we've heard nothing. Nothing. At work. Charles Evans for what's the next one? Commission at large. sorry. County commissioner at large. Charles Evans is invited and declined. And then we open and he said call me. And then got nothing. And then Veronica Jones, invited four times and has we've not heard from her. However, come. Veronica Jones has had some issues. I saw she has some health issues. yeah, that's definitely gonna slow her down. Right. so yeah. I can give some grace on that one. Okay. Yeah. I just wanted to look a little asterisk in. Let's work through the Cumberland County Board of A Board of Education at large. Sixteen candidates, three seats. So go ahead. Roxy Pone has appeared. Tom Hatch has appeared. Quincy Lovejoy has appeared. Jonathan Lee has not. He's coming this week. Has not. Has not, but Brian Moore has. Brian Moore has appeared twice. Theodore Miller has already appeared. Keith Byrd has booked for a special session October 1st at 4 p.m. Carol Stubbs, booked, and then no shows. And then after a reschedule, the information stands for the waiting scan. we rescheduled, she never showed again. she never showed again. That's nice. I love coming to work and waiting for somebody and then then not even respecting my role. Chris Young, no shows. He rebooked himself for special sessions. So I do want to say this. Chris Young and a lot of these other guys did on that particular Monday. they had another candidate form at the same time. It was a conflict. I mean that's fine, Danny. However, Connor I, as a grown fifty eight year old woman, when I'm not going to show my gosh, I have a conflict. Let me tell somebody that I'm not going to show. Because, you know, I respect other people's. She did post or something. I did see something, so I'm not gonna hate on him too bad. We'll have him here. We'll beat up. I would be Yeah, absolutely. So let's see. Gone to Jaclyn Brown and Bradley Williams. They've been been invited four times and they're both silent. Demetri this is exhausting how many people are running. Demetrius Stokes, Robin Chatwick, and Becky West were invited by phone. Franklin Crockett, Carell Ward, no response on file. First outreach going out this weekend. Told you I've been working on this stuff. Yeah. So it looks like it wasn't work. Well, so when I finally publish this it'll have everybody's name on a nice graphic. So they're but Let's get to rapid fire because I don't want to get to our our guest here. So seventy first has a tuberculosis case. That was fun. they let's see it was on nine sixteen. that they said there's about two hundred sixty people that have been in contact with this patient. Now I did call epidemiology today at the county health department and I did not was not able to get an updated number if they produced that or whatever. So If you've got kids in that school, keep an eye on them. Right. Well, the council dissolved the commission. So at the Day of Villal North Carolina Council meeting September 14th, the council accepted a 2.7 million North Carolina DLT Airport grant and a 1.2 million federal bus grant. The commission was created on no, they dissolved the Joint Securance Commission and tabled the Office of Community Safety Annual Report until September twenty eighth meeting. The background, the Joint Appearance Commission was created in two thousand and four by an interlocal agreement among Fayetteville, Cumberland County, and several town of review public buildings, site plan appearance, and community beautification. It's been inactive since 2019 and its tree board duties. I mean, is this real government? Yeah, that's a real government thing. Yeah. Tree board. The tree board are shifting to parks and recreation advisory commission, the city town manager, Doug Hewitt. got back to Peter directly. The safety report was delayed because the director overseeing it was out. And the Joint Appearance Commission and body standing multiple jurisdictions was resolved simply because it hasn't met in years. I mean at least manager Hugh is trying to clean up some redundancy, I guess, but Okay. So seven years I guess to catch on. I don't know. So Mayor Colvin has been appointed to the North Carolina Board of Transportation. that kudos to him. Governor Stein appointed our mayor to the board for Division Six, which covers Cumberland, Harnett, Blade, Columbus, and Robinson. So that is a real seat at a table for Cumberland County's road. So hopefully maybe that'll translate into some dollars for our roads and fill these potholes. Well maybe. Okay, well the judge orders C N C N and MSN now political access reach. Restore. Yep. US Judge Timothy Cowpery issues a temporary restraint order September 24, ordering the White House to immediately return, reinstate, and restore to the three outlets credentials. But CNN and MSC Now reporters are still denied entry into Qi Ji Ping's state dinner arrival ceremony days later. And that order didn't address CNN's removal from the video pool rotation. Other networks refused to cover the event until CNN was fully restored. So no major network aired live coverage of the visit. Yeah, so we can't have twenty networks in the room with cameras so that they pull it. So they have they take turns is what I've learned. they take turns, I think, for the expense too, not just the equipment, but so so the journalists are all in solidarity with one another right now. gay this is Yeah, I mean I would be in solidarity with the American people. And report what I'm supposed to be reporting, but that's me. Well, we have an odd relationship with the press sometimes, but they lie. Yeah. They do. They do. Okay. Let's talk about something. It's not my Facebook page, but it has a whole like four or five minutes of all the lies. Straight up lies. Well, for those of you that are from Fayetteville, you might have appreciated that our own J. Cole packed the Crown Coliseum. So I did reach out to the Crown since I'm on the Crown Center board, I did I did not. Yeah, I was I'd rather be in bed at eight, nine o'clock. I don't know. I'm that many years old. so straight from the Crown Complex director of marketing, Gary Rogers did respond to me. doors opened at seven o'clock. The show started around ten after eight. J. Cole takes the stage just after nine thirty and he closed it down around eleven forty five. It's a late night. That's that's come on, seriously. That's that's that's I'd be like sleep hung over for three days, you know. 9406 tickets were distributed. And the Coliseum, however, is the only piece of the Crown Complex that is open. per town per county manager, we have closed the arena and the right theater at this point. we're gonna keep watching the Crown. I have my own opinion on a lot of stuff. So well that says 9,406 were distributed. It doesn't say scholars. Did we make money or do we lose money? Did we know? So the county does not make money off of ticket sales. That goes to the artist and other things. We make money off rent. It's a complicated thing. Yeah, we don't we don't get the ticket though. So look, that's the live block. Here's what's behind the door tonight. Two Cumberland County judicial candidates running unopposed for district court, Ms. Toni King and Rosalind Hood. Nobody's gonna make them earn it in a debate, so I will. I'm gonna tell each of them to their face what an unopposed seat means for accountability, then I'm gonna shut up and let them answer because that's what the show's for. It's free, it takes four seconds. Like the page, follow us on Facebook, subscribe on YouTube, newsletter's at the website, the door's open, see you in.