How ‘woke’ does Mebane need to be?
We had hoped that much of the national nonsense on various issues, most recently and especially racial, would stay far away from Alamance County.
But,...
Superintendent’s secret recordings are Nixon-esque
Probably like most observers, we were somewhat bumfuzzled by some of the comments made during the county commissioners’ last meeting on June 19, when...
Commissioners get snookered by school board
Well, dear reader, you’re going to pay higher taxes.
You can thank the county commissioners who decided to set the property tax rate about $1.5...
Budget games
Why is it, we always wonder, that taxpayers are the very last ones any public official takes into consideration when setting their annual budgets?
We...
Why can’t county commissioners get to revenue neutral?
We don’t understand the county commissioners’ action this week in seemingly deciding to walk away from further decision-making just as they were about to...
Some principals should probably also have been banned from graduation
All six Alamance-Burlington high schools held their graduations this past weekend. Missing from walking to pick up their diplomas were 82 seniors who had...
The self-fulfilling momentum of bureaucracy
We acknowledge that the “budget season” is a frustrating one for us to follow.
Every factor in local government – both at the county level...
Pranks vs. outright vandalism
Our wholehearted applause to ABSS superintendent Dr. Dain Butler for his courage, decisiveness, determination, and tenacity in taking prompt action against ABSS students who...
Kudos for a (half-hearted) rollback of property tax hikes
Our commendations to Burlington’s city council and a majority of Mebane’s city council for making modest improvements in the property tax rates proposed by...
Which of these things is not like the other?
One of our favorite childhood games was one contained in the old Highlights magazine. It was entitled, “Which of these things is not like...
