Social drinking district could spread to Mebane, where it would be a particularly...
We recognize that we may be on the losing side, again, in warning about the downside, even dangers, attendant to the mass rush to...
Sesquicentennial Park, part 2
First, the good news. Graham mayor Jennifer Talley has stated, publicly and unequivocally, that she has no personal interest in ultimately buying the land...
Gibsonville’s mayor was harsh, unfair to disgruntled resident
Rarely have we seen a more high-handed treatment of the public than Gibsonville mayor Lenny Williams employed Monday night during the most recent meeting...
Wide and open search needed for new superintendent
Alamance-Burlington school board members will soon need to turn their attention to beginning a formal search for a new superintendent.
The interim superintendent, Dr. William...
Sesquicentennial Park should be fixed, not eliminated
In some large corporations, various CEOs have said that one of the most important functions of having good staff is to help the head...
Burlington’s city council: Let’s use up all the money, then ask the taxpayers...
Frankly, we’re surprised at the restraint Burlington residents have shown, thus far, to the suggestion at last week’s city council meeting of putting a...
Public engagement? Yeah, right
One of the most sure-fire ways to know that government consultants and bureaucrats are trying to pull one over on the taxpaying public is...
ABSS and the Keystone Cops
More than a 100 years ago, as the new genre of “moving pictures” began to unroll, one of the first categories of popular “movies”...
Taxpayers: Follow the commissioners’ shell game carefully, because it’s going to cost you more...
We’re convinced that sometimes public boards deliberately try to make information revealed at their meetings complicated – to obfuscate, obscure, and confuse – so...
Graham’s street festivals: what’s the point?
Four brave Graham businesswomen came forward at last week’s Graham city council meet to question the city’s policy of closing downtown streets for occasional...
