It’s always. . . “for the children” – especially when it’s politically expedient
We could have written most of the story from this week’s joint meetings between county commissioners and school board members before the first member...
Years of ABSS ignoring damage from water leaks in schools has contributed to apparent...
ABSS officials are almost breathless with alarm about the possibility that mold may be present in, possibly, more than a dozen of the school...
But some bad ideas are “free” – or at least don’t involve consultants
As for the category of bad ideas that didn’t come from a consultant, we have to give the grand prize to Graham’s police chief...
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...
