The pain brought on by the tax increases — excuse me, "property revaluation" — probably hurts as bad as the suffering our poor commissioners have to endure sitting in old cloth chairs.

Get off your rear ends and go to work for the public you are supposed to serve by budgeting items we really need. Cut out luxuries such as an improved meeting room, costing $100,000, and $8,500 leather chairs.

Rowan is getting awfully close to the "let them eat cake" mentality. We can't cut off your heads because we have had enough, but we can vote you out of office.

— Janet Dennis

China Grove