Killing downtown Burlington – again
One would hope that cities and city councils would learn a few lessons from the past.
But, alas, it seems that Burlington’s city officials and...
Mebane’s REAC committee living in an alternate universe
At times on Tuesday night, as we listened to the discussion at the meeting of Mebane’s Racial Equity Advisory Committee, we wondered if its...
Government “consultants” and their silly, expensive ideas
We’ve often observed, with a mixture of bafflement and alarm, the fondness that certain local government officials have for preposterous proposals which they seriously...
How ‘woke’ does Mebane need to be?
We had hoped that much of the national nonsense on various issues, most recently and especially racial, would stay far away from Alamance County.
But,...
Superintendent’s secret recordings are Nixon-esque
Probably like most observers, we were somewhat bumfuzzled by some of the comments made during the county commissioners’ last meeting on June 19, when...
Commissioners get snookered by school board
Well, dear reader, you’re going to pay higher taxes.
You can thank the county commissioners who decided to set the property tax rate about $1.5...
Budget games
Why is it, we always wonder, that taxpayers are the very last ones any public official takes into consideration when setting their annual budgets?
We...
Why can’t county commissioners get to revenue neutral?
We don’t understand the county commissioners’ action this week in seemingly deciding to walk away from further decision-making just as they were about to...
Some principals should probably also have been banned from graduation
All six Alamance-Burlington high schools held their graduations this past weekend. Missing from walking to pick up their diplomas were 82 seniors who had...
The self-fulfilling momentum of bureaucracy
We acknowledge that the “budget season” is a frustrating one for us to follow.
Every factor in local government – both at the county level...
