Editorial

Nineteen days. That’s how long it took for Alamance County’s commissioners to ignore the budget they just adopted last month and layer on a half million dollars in new spending. We...

We hate that we apparently need to provide remedial education for the county manager Bryan Hagood, but someone needs to remind him that the county seat of Alamance County...

We’ve learned never to get too enamored of any local politician. Just when you think you finally have a few good, well-principled people serving in public office, they’ll do something...

Well, it was really a week for laughable public meetings of local boards (see adjacent editorials), but, as usual, the school board didn’t want to be left out from...

Alamance County taxpayers owe a debt of gratitude to three county commissioners who managed to remember them this week by rolling back the property rate, albeit only slightly. Even...

Over his 35 years as mayor of Mebane, Glendel Stephenson became famous, for among other things, his trademark comments at almost every groundbreaking, ribbon cutting, or other celebration in...

Several local chairmen need to learn how to use, and not be timid about using, their gavels to control their board’s public meetings. Now that boards have returned to meeting...

We’re pleased that the criminal charges against this newspaper’s senior writer, Tomas Murawski, were dismissed Wednesday by the district attorney’s office. Murawski and this newspaper’s publisher had been covering the...

This week’s presentation of the county’s manager’s proposed 2021-2022 county budget was as vivid an illustration as we’ve seen lately of the difference between bureaucrats and the taxpayers who...

Senior resident superior court judge Tom Lambeth is usually the epitome of what a good judge should be: prudent, even-handed, thoughtful, and dispassionately examining the evidence and testimony in...