How much public drinking is enough?
Our thanks to Alamance County’s commissioners this week for not joining the rush to expand the consumption of beer and wine in public places.
The...
Beware Burlington bond propaganda
Warning to Burlington voters: you’re probably about to be inundated with unsolicited materials from city government designed to persuade you to vote a huge...
ALAMANCE NEWS PUBLISHER’S EXAMPLES OF BURLINGTON’S IMPROPER, EVEN ILLEGAL, AND ONE-SIDED ADVOCACY...
NO CONTEXT OR BALANCE IN THE CITY’S PRESENTATION – One of the most glaring examples of the one-sided approach in the city’s portrayal of...
Mebane’s backroom dealing both illegal and unnecessary
We continue to shake our head in disbelief at the lengths some public officials will go to conceal information from the public they supposedly...
Tax & budget votes reveal actual fiscal conservatives vs. merely rhetorical ones
We warned last week that a big property tax increase was on the horizon, and this week it became a reality.
We’re disappointed in the...
School system leadership, not legislative report, is the real joke
It’s hard to know where to start this week with all the outrageous statements and actions by local politicians and bureaucrats.
However, it seems to...
County manager’s sneaky, backdoor scheme to conceal incentives information from taxpayers is a real...
Well, we’ll have to chalk this up as a rare occurrence, if not a first.
While expressing our deep disappointment in the decision of commissioner...
State grant dollars are Graham’s, not its mayor’s
We don’t seem to be conveying very well to Graham mayor Jennifer Talley what it is that we find objectionable about her insistence on...
Taxpayers, beware; an enormous property tax hike is coming your way
County commissioners continue to flail about on next year’s county budget. They keep having a series of special meetings, all ostensibly to hear and...
Frittering away tax dollars without any public input
Leave it to politicians to fritter away money – whether tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions – and, in some cases, to...
