City and county: beware “settling” with Halloween protesters
We didn’t have an opportunity to comment, editorially, on one of last week’s most significant stories, that of a proposal from the attorneys for...
Something’s wrong in Graham city government
We haven’t commented previously and see no need to venture into the lawsuits and kerfuffle surrounding Graham city manager Megan Garner.
The former Rural Hall...
How many tax-paid holidays is enough?
We’ve lamented before, but it’s time to do so again, that governments are forever trying to outdo one another in providing more salaries and...
Take Democratic Party politics out of non-partisan city council
We’ve expressed our views before about the unnecessary, even gratuitous, establishment by at least two local jurisdictions – Burlington and Mebane – of local...
Burlington officials behave worse than drunken sailors
Well, we’ve lamented before, but we might as well express disappointment again at the spendthrift tendencies of local governments, manifest this week as in...
Evidence now in: remote instruction didn’t produce much learning; do school officials even...
ABSS officials this week confessed to school board members what parents have known for months if not the past two years: remote instruction didn’t...
Drug-sniffing dogs a valuable tool
Our commendations to interim ABSS superintendent Dr. Jim Merrill for his announcement this week that he will, in cooperation with local law enforcement officials...
Money, money, money – for everyone but the taxpayer
When this newspaper’s publisher was working in the national Capitol in the 1970’s and 1980’s, he was always impressed by the philosophy expressed by...
Consideration of nuclear nonproliferation treaty: what a colossal waste of time & misplaced energy
We’re sure that the proponents of a supposed United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons are devout and sincere in their support...
