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...
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...
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...
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...
We merely report
We confess to being somewhat uncomfortable over the past month or so as one outside political group – the Carolina Leadership Coalition (a political...
The superintendent strikes again – with an emphasis on both pragmatism and academic...
Regular readers of this page will wonder, perhaps, if we’ve gone soft to find so many good things to say about the school system’s...
Newest battleground in LGTBQ Culture War is right here
If anyone doubts that the national debate over inappropriate school library books and a sexualized agenda for public education has come to Alamance County,...
Elon’s drinking district
Sometimes in Elon, it’s hard to know who are the adults and who are the students.
Let’s see if we understand the basics.
Elon’s board of...
Thank you, Dr. Butler
Our heartiest thanks to ABSS school superintendent Dr. Dain Butler for his decisive action in removing a highly offensive book from the school library...
Geesh, who knew school officials can’t follow basic laws?
We express our continual bewilderment at the lengths public officials will go to establish and enable all manner of little specialty advisory committees to...
