It’s high time to remember taxpayers – and cut the property tax rate
County commissioners and every other local city council and board of aldermen have been on a spending spree on behalf of their own employees,...
Mebane: prioritizing city bureaucrats over taxpayers – as usual
Mebane city manager Chris Rollins unveiled his proposed budget for the city this week. And it’s a real whopper in terms of spending levels...
What’s the purpose of county government?
We’ve become convinced that many of the people attending the semi-monthly county commissioners’ meetings of late – especially those with their hands out to...
ACC Van Winkle
Readers of this newspaper may wonder if they fell asleep recently like Rip Van Winkle of old – or, perhaps, whether ACC officials did.
In...
(Another) spending frenzy in Burlington
There’s an old adage that “A fool and his money are soon parted.”
Apparently, an even faster separation can occur when government officials have the...
A 28-year-old building is worn out? You must be kidding. Only in government.
UNBELIEVABLE!
That’s our reaction to numerous aspects of a consultant firm’s purported study of the Alamance County judiciary system’s space “needs.”
The consultant firm has concluded...
City and county: beware “settling” with Halloween protesters
We didn’t have an opportunity to comment, editorially, on one of last week’s most significant stories, that of a proposal from the attorneys for...
Something’s wrong in Graham city government
We haven’t commented previously and see no need to venture into the lawsuits and kerfuffle surrounding Graham city manager Megan Garner.
The former Rural Hall...
How many tax-paid holidays is enough?
We’ve lamented before, but it’s time to do so again, that governments are forever trying to outdo one another in providing more salaries and...
Take Democratic Party politics out of non-partisan city council
We’ve expressed our views before about the unnecessary, even gratuitous, establishment by at least two local jurisdictions – Burlington and Mebane – of local...
