Editorial

We confess to being somewhat uncomfortable over the past month or so as one outside political group – the Carolina Leadership Coalition (a political action committee) – used one...

Regular readers of this page will wonder, perhaps, if we’ve gone soft to find so many good things to say about the school system’s new superintendent – this week...

If anyone doubts that the national debate over inappropriate school library books and a sexualized agenda for public education has come to Alamance County, may we suggest you get...

Sometimes in Elon, it’s hard to know who are the adults and who are the students. Let’s see if we understand the basics. Elon’s board of aldermen – ostensibly the grown-ups...

Our heartiest thanks to ABSS school superintendent Dr. Dain Butler for his decisive action in removing a highly offensive book from the school library at Western High School. We’ve rarely...

We express our continual bewilderment at the lengths public officials will go to establish and enable all manner of little specialty advisory committees to conduct the public’s business –...

Hope springs eternal that Alamance-Burlington school board members and the officials they oversee will some day prioritize academic achievement. Alas, that seemingly fundamental purpose is rarely the focus of school...

And if the other flaws in the school system aren’t bad enough, now some school board members apparently want to prevent regular citizens from protesting obscene or other inappropriate...

Well, we hate to unload on the school system all at once, but school officials invite public scrutiny and ridicule with some of their policies. We were surprised a few...

Graham city council members have met for four hours last week, trying to decide how they should designate projects to be paid with about $4.98 million in special ARPA...