Burlington’s city council: Let’s use up all the money, then ask the taxpayers...
Frankly, we’re surprised at the restraint Burlington residents have shown, thus far, to the suggestion at last week’s city council meeting of putting a...
Public engagement? Yeah, right
One of the most sure-fire ways to know that government consultants and bureaucrats are trying to pull one over on the taxpaying public is...
ABSS and the Keystone Cops
More than a 100 years ago, as the new genre of “moving pictures” began to unroll, one of the first categories of popular “movies”...
Taxpayers: Follow the commissioners’ shell game carefully, because it’s going to cost you more...
We’re convinced that sometimes public boards deliberately try to make information revealed at their meetings complicated – to obfuscate, obscure, and confuse – so...
Graham’s street festivals: what’s the point?
Four brave Graham businesswomen came forward at last week’s Graham city council meet to question the city’s policy of closing downtown streets for occasional...
More public notice, transparency, openness needed in Mebane policy-making
Readers of this page will know that we consistently believe that when public bodies consider the public’s business, they ought to do so with...
Elon downtown development director: Let’s continue to lose money on a bad idea
Last week’s Elon town council meeting provided its typical degree of humor – although, as usual, we don’t think the council members and staff...
Non sequitur, illogical, or just plain crazy
Some of our readers have occasionally jested with this newspaper’s publisher and some of our reporters that we’ll never run out of stories, or...
Not any way to run a railroad . . . or a county
Sometimes all we can do is just shake our head at the way certain public boards operate with so little consideration of the general...
Judge Brad Allen’s inglorious end not indicative of a lifetime of stellar contributions to...
We’re sad to see the retirement of district court judge Brad Allen.
We’re even more sad for the circumstances in which that decision had to...
