Get ready for ‘crowded’ schools rhetoric despite declining ABSS enrollment
Step right up, folks. You’ll want to have your popcorn and refreshments ready to watch next week’s entertainment at the semi-monthly ABSS school board...
We print local news, not press releases for government officials
Printed elsewhere on this page is a letter, emailed Thursday morning from county attorney Rik Stevens, expressing his strenuous objection to what he characterized...
Burlington’s pickleball boondoggle goes from bad to worse
We’ve long thought that the city of Burlington’s infatuation with pickleball, and the city council’s commitment to spend millions of tax dollars on additional...
ABSS board chairman’s partisan actions reveal yet another reason to go to partisan school...
We’ve increasingly begun to believe that Alamance County lawmakers should go ahead and introduce legislation to convert the Alamance-Burlington school board into a partisan...
The lady in the window is gone
For decades, from at least the 1990s through early 2022, people coming to The Alamance News office on West Elm Street would likely be...
Sen. Thom Tillis needs to work to curtail, not expand, Medicaid
We continue to be puzzled by the actions and statements of Sen. Thom Tillis, now in the thick of discussions and debate about the...
OK, school system, you got the money; now what will you do with it?
School officials are always claiming that if they just had more money, oh the good things they could do.
Well, they largely got what they’ve...
Approval with no votes? Huh?
We’ve acknowledged many times that this newspaper’s publisher is not an attorney and the newspaper is not a law firm, but basic common sense...
Editorial views on the county budget and property tax rate increase
Editorials related to the commissioners' consideration of the budget – and the ultimate 3-2 vote in favor of a 2½-cent higher property tax rate:
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The Mini-me: Kelly Allen
We didn’t have particularly high hopes when then-Haw River mayor Kelly Allen was tapped by the local Republican Party last November to serve out...
