No progress on cutting county manager’s proposed tax hike; in fact, regression
Alamance County property owners might as well get ready now to fork over more of their hard-earned money for higher county property taxes.
County commissioners...
Looks like it’s time for taxpayers to get out the pitch forks, tar, feathers,...
Well, we admit, we are absolutely flabbergasted.
Alamance County manager Heidi York unveiled her first county budget this week. (She started with the county just...
Gatewood: a fine run at ACC
The information about his decision to retire June 30 came last week too close to deadline for us to comment, but we don’t want...
More HUGE municipal property tax increases; this week: Elon & Graham
We noted last week our long-held suspicion that local officials would attempt to use the property revaluation as a pretext to slip in some...
Whopping city tax increases proposed in Burlington, Mebane
The first local municipal budgets have been unveiled this week, and, we suspect taxpayers are going to be livid.
Understandably so.
We’ve long suspected that local...
Elon proposes fire district tax rate higher than “revenue neutral,” even higher than a...
We’ve been concerned that municipalities and other government officials have been laying in wait, planning and plotting all sorts of methodologies to circumvent efforts...
Millions for Astroturf?
Sometimes we just shake our head in disbelief over the priority that local officials and elected leaders place on issues that we regard as...
ABSS spending ideas totally out of control
We’ve generally had a pretty good impression of the new superintendent, Dr. Dain Butler, since he arrived last July. Likewise, we’ve felt that board...
No, Patsy, you don’t get to decide who your replacement will be or...
We’re beginning to wonder whether our praise of school board member Patsy Simpson a few weeks ago when she announced her forthcoming resignation may...
Waste of time, Part II
About 13 months ago, we wrote on this page about the ridiculous waste of time by Burlington’s city council entertaining proponents of a supposed...
