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...
Maybe MLK was wrong: are people still to be judged by skin color?
Apparently Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was wrong when he said in his famous “I have a dream” speech of 1963: “I have a...
Beneath the rhetoric, the substance isn’t very flattering for ABSS
Aside from the unnecessarily caustic approach that school board member Patsy Simpson took toward county commissioner Bill Lashley this week (see separate editorial in...
Not a good finale to Patsy’s service
Well, it was just a couple of weeks ago when we expressed admiration on this page for school board member Patsy Simpson for her...
No higher taxes, or slush funds, for fire districts
One of the lesser-known dimensions of a property revaluation year is that, in addition to revised property tax rates for the county (to be...
Patsy Simpson has served well
We’ve certainly heard a number of accolades and brickbats in response to this week’s announcement from long-time school board member Patsy Simpson that she...
