Elections have consequences, all right; so do not having any
There’s an oft-quoted adage, most often used by career politicians, that “elections have consequences,” by which they usually mean that since they’ve won, they...
Does school board member with no children/grandchildren in ABSS schools have any more...
We don’t know Brandy Whittaker, one of the ABSS parents who took the podium at last week’s school board meeting to upbraid the school...
If they don’t want to fill a school board seat (at all), just say...
We don’t have an especially strong feeling about whether the school board should appoint someone to fill the seat left vacant by longtime member...
On Caesar’s wife and the need to learn from history
We’ve often written of our belief that public officials and their spouses ought to remain “as pure as Caesar’s wife,” as the old saying...
It’s always. . . “for the children” – especially when it’s politically expedient
We could have written most of the story from this week’s joint meetings between county commissioners and school board members before the first member...
Years of ABSS ignoring damage from water leaks in schools has contributed to apparent...
ABSS officials are almost breathless with alarm about the possibility that mold may be present in, possibly, more than a dozen of the school...
But some bad ideas are “free” – or at least don’t involve consultants
As for the category of bad ideas that didn’t come from a consultant, we have to give the grand prize to Graham’s police chief...
Killing downtown Burlington – again
One would hope that cities and city councils would learn a few lessons from the past.
But, alas, it seems that Burlington’s city officials and...
Mebane’s REAC committee living in an alternate universe
At times on Tuesday night, as we listened to the discussion at the meeting of Mebane’s Racial Equity Advisory Committee, we wondered if its...
Government “consultants” and their silly, expensive ideas
We’ve often observed, with a mixture of bafflement and alarm, the fondness that certain local government officials have for preposterous proposals which they seriously...
