Lawmakers need creative solutions to fill teaching, law enforcement vacancies and prevent jurisdictions from...
We’re not sure that Alamance County’s legislative delegation in Raleigh can pull it off, but they and other members of the General Assembly need to give some creative consideration...
A brand new $67M high school for just 238-564 students? Really?
We’re certainly glad that at least a majority of school board members demonstrated both fiscal responsibility and common sense this week.
The question was how many students should be moved...
How many raises are enough?
We were amused, but not particularly surprised, by this week’s newest aggrieved group, substitute teachers, who somehow figure they are entitled to some sort of raise – since the...
Another high-handed bureaucratic spending decision
There’s an old expression, more commonly used in northern areas with larger Jewish populations, “What am I, chopped liver,” by which the speaker questions why he or she was...
This is representation?
We don’t often comment on national issues or votes in Washington.
But we cannot help but express our bewilderment at the votes of North Carolina’s two U.S. Senators – Republicans...
Last we heard, town councils were supposed to be in charge of their town’s...
Well, we’ve recently been critical of several municipal boards – specifically, Mebane’s and Burlington’s city councils – because they took action at their council meetings without having informed the...
We’re just getting together for a “get-to-know-you” lunch; yeah, right
We don’t know what’s going around – in the drinking water, or something – but it seems that local public officials are growing more and more fond of huddling...
Oh, just by the way. . . get ready for a property tax increase
As we’ve often noted on this page, many of our irritations and frustrations with local public officials and the boards on which they serve is not so much with...
Mebane’s city council should be embarrassed and ashamed by its secret meetings
We never to cease to be surprised, and outraged, that public officials think it is perfectly OK to duck behind closed doors to transact the public’s business.
This week it...
Time to reconsider Burlington’s economic incentives policies
And while we’re on the subject of unnecessary government secrecy, let us give due attention to the city of Burlington’s policies regarding incentives proposals.
Last week, that city council had...
