Beware expanding the (Burlington) city council
Another topic which looks to us like a solution in search of a problem to address is the idea embraced by Bur-lington’s city council...
Selling off Sesquicentennial Park: such a shame
All we can do is continually shake our head in disbelief and disgust that Graham’s city council can be so deaf to the overwhelming...
Here’s hoping ABSS is getting better than “low-performing”
Alamance-Burlington school officials and their supporters were practically giddy this week over what they consider to be, as the superintendent put it, “a banner...
School system’s unreasonably high budget demand enables commissioners to hold the line against...
Our thanks this week to Alamance County’s commissioners who held the line against increased spending demands made by the Alamance-Burlington school board.
State law has...
The advantages of being a public sector employee
We often wonder when we’ll reach the tipping point where there aren’t enough private sector workers to finance the salaries and benefits of government...
Local government budget observations, assumptions, and favorite gimmicks
Some day, we’d love to be a “fly on the wall” at the conferences that local government officials go to, in order to confirm...
County manager’s duplicitious portrayal of property tax rates
The late U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-New York), who served for 24 years between 1977-2001, was an entertaining politician with a wide variety...
Weak-kneed school board buckles to the union mob
We’re frequently disappointed in the lack of academic focus that members of the Alamance-Burlington school board demonstrate, and no more so than this week.
The...
Elon’s hodgepodge of crazy ideas
It’s almost always entertaining to follow the semi-monthly meetings of Elon’s town council.
Rarely does one municipality consider so many inane ideas.
But this week’s meeting...
