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...
School board going astray chasing money for athletic trainers
Hope springs eternal that Alamance-Burlington school board members and the officials they oversee will some day prioritize academic achievement.
Alas, that seemingly fundamental purpose is...
Why such an obsession to keep LGBTQ books in school libraries?
And if the other flaws in the school system aren’t bad enough, now some school board members apparently want to prevent regular citizens from...
Musical chairs for ABSS teacher staffing
Well, we hate to unload on the school system all at once, but school officials invite public scrutiny and ridicule with some of their...
How should Graham spend its windfall of federal dollars?
Graham city council members have met for four hours last week, trying to decide how they should designate projects to be paid with about...
“Whack-a-mole” in Elon
Sometimes with local governments and their elected officials – and the need to hold them to the state’s requirements for open government – we...
Well, now it’s obvious – Officials: “we don’t care what you think”
Rarely does the public get such a close and first-hand look at the dismissive attitude some officials have toward the public they ostensibly serve.
But...
Backroom deals are never a good idea in local government
Backroom deals are never a good idea in local government
We’ve tried over many years to hold local public bodies to the open government (and...
Thousands for bureaucrats but not a penny for taxpayers
We were disheartened by the latest rhetoric at this week’s county commissioners meeting as commissioners began wringing their hands about not having enough money...
