More public notice, transparency, openness needed in Mebane policy-making
Readers of this page will know that we consistently believe that when public bodies consider the public’s business, they ought to do so with...
Elon downtown development director: Let’s continue to lose money on a bad idea
Last week’s Elon town council meeting provided its typical degree of humor – although, as usual, we don’t think the council members and staff...
Non sequitur, illogical, or just plain crazy
Some of our readers have occasionally jested with this newspaper’s publisher and some of our reporters that we’ll never run out of stories, or...
Not any way to run a railroad . . . or a county
Sometimes all we can do is just shake our head at the way certain public boards operate with so little consideration of the general...
Judge Brad Allen’s inglorious end not indicative of a lifetime of stellar contributions to...
We’re sad to see the retirement of district court judge Brad Allen.
We’re even more sad for the circumstances in which that decision had to...
ABSS’ shameful propaganda, disinformation campaign
The Music Man was a rather famous 1950’s era musical, which stars as the main character a so-called professor, Harold Hill, an organizer of...
Heidi in Wonderland takes the commissioners down the rabbit hole
UNBELIEVABLE!
We believe that this will be the reaction of Alamance County residents when they learn that county administrators, with a sympathetic and largely passive...
Truth in packaging – let’s just call it what it is: a pay RAISE...
We’re always amused at the typical government gambit for getting more and more pay raises approved for already well-paid government workers. Such workers also...
In Elon, more government largesse for their employees – at taxpayer expense, of...
Well, well, well. It seems even Elon’s usually monolithic town council can – once in a blue moon – have a difference of opinion. ...
ABSS: PR first; substance, if any, later
We keep thinking that surely the superintendent and other school system officials would learn their lesson about being more transparent and honest.
And dealing more...
