Eliminating noncitizen eligibility for any role in N.C. elections significant
Even many North Carolinians who supported last week’s constitutional amendment on banning noncitizens from voting in any elections in the state may not have...
Most deceptive, and ineffective, political advertising of 2024
We have to give the dubious distinction of most deceptive advertising during the 2024 campaign season to Alamance County’s Democratic Party for a series...
Bring partisanship out of the shadows at ABSS
We think the time may have come to eliminate the non-partisan charade of the Alamance-Burlington school board and move toward having partisan elections.
Historically, across...
Judge replacements should maintain same partisan caste as predecessors
We didn’t want to make some of these comments and observations prior to the election, but we think they should be made now.
Our first...
Just as we feared, Burlington spins out one-sided bond propaganda
We had not planned to voice, again, our concerns about the two sets of municipal bonds that Burlington leaders have placed on the November...
ABSS’ LGBTQ lemmings
School board members were both intellectually feeble and nefarious this week during a supposed “work session” they conducted on Tuesday afternoon.
Work sessions are typically...
Silly, wasteful spending in Mebane
If taxpayers are ever in doubt about the waste of their tax dollars, they merely need to attend – or view online – a...
Graham is still the county seat; county government & courts should remain here
Sometimes it seems that even the most obvious background needs to be repeated to remind some officials of the basic facts of local government.
Here’s...
Wouldn’t it be nice, even refreshing, if school board members could read – ...
We’ve often thought it would be highly commendable if public officials would occasionally read through North Carolina’s Open Meetings Law.
They might actually learn what...
Graham’s excessive and unnecessary secrecy gives the city a bad name
We have to give this week’s award to the most uncooperative government to the city of Graham. And with special brickbats to the Graham...
