In Elon, more government largesse for their employees – at taxpayer expense, of...
Well, well, well. It seems even Elon’s usually monolithic town council can – once in a blue moon – have a difference of opinion. ...
ABSS: PR first; substance, if any, later
We keep thinking that surely the superintendent and other school system officials would learn their lesson about being more transparent and honest.
And dealing more...
Commendations to ACC for open presidential search process
We want to commend Alamance Community College’s board of trustees for the open search process used to select the college’s new president, Dr. Ken...
First a new tax, then a justification for it
If there’s every been a case of getting the cart before the horse in public policy, it’s surely the recent effort to double the...
Another ABSS “hair on fire” funding emergency
Alamance County commissioners have been relatively patient, in our view, in hearing the repeated – always urgent and almost monthly – pleas (often expressed...
On this Veterans Day, remember: Silent soldiers also serve
They walk among us in uniforms of ordinary clothing in ordinary places. They go to jobs they won’t get to keep, attend schools they...
ABSS hatches new scheme to hide public information from the public
Leave it to bureaucrats who can’t seem to be creative about any other dimension of their jobs to be creative about ways to keep...
The one (smart) adult in the ABSS room
We’re a bit behind in giving a word of thanks, and encouragement, to the one ABSS bureaucrat who appears to be at least trying...
Elon well on the way to becoming Pottersville
We don’t really know why Elon’s town council is so enamored with outdoor sidewalk drinking, but it seems they just can’t get enough of...
More (detailed) bad news about ABSS schools’ performance grades
In this edition, we have additional in-depth coverage about the performance grades given by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction to all public schools,...
