Gatewood: a fine run at ACC
The information about his decision to retire June 30 came last week too close to deadline for us to comment, but we don’t want Dr. Algie Gatewood’s impending departure...
More HUGE municipal property tax increases; this week: Elon & Graham
We noted last week our long-held suspicion that local officials would attempt to use the property revaluation as a pretext to slip in some more spending and extra taxes...
Whopping city tax increases proposed in Burlington, Mebane
The first local municipal budgets have been unveiled this week, and, we suspect taxpayers are going to be livid.
Understandably so.
We’ve long suspected that local officials would attempt to use...
Elon proposes fire district tax rate higher than “revenue neutral,” even higher than a...
We’ve been concerned that municipalities and other government officials have been laying in wait, planning and plotting all sorts of methodologies to circumvent efforts to offset revaluation of property...
Millions for Astroturf?
Sometimes we just shake our head in disbelief over the priority that local officials and elected leaders place on issues that we regard as entirely frivolous.
No where has there...
ABSS spending ideas totally out of control
We’ve generally had a pretty good impression of the new superintendent, Dr. Dain Butler, since he arrived last July. Likewise, we’ve felt that board chairman Sandy Ellington-Graves and most...
No, Patsy, you don’t get to decide who your replacement will be or...
We’re beginning to wonder whether our praise of school board member Patsy Simpson a few weeks ago when she announced her forthcoming resignation may have been premature, based on...
Waste of time, Part II
About 13 months ago, we wrote on this page about the ridiculous waste of time by Burlington’s city council entertaining proponents of a supposed United Nations Treaty on the...
Maybe MLK was wrong: are people still to be judged by skin color?
Apparently Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was wrong when he said in his famous “I have a dream” speech of 1963: “I have a dream that my four little...
Beneath the rhetoric, the substance isn’t very flattering for ABSS
Aside from the unnecessarily caustic approach that school board member Patsy Simpson took toward county commissioner Bill Lashley this week (see separate editorial in this edition, above), another little-noticed...
