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...
Burlington officials behave worse than drunken sailors
Well, we’ve lamented before, but we might as well express disappointment again at the spendthrift tendencies of local governments, manifest this week as in...
Evidence now in: remote instruction didn’t produce much learning; do school officials even...
ABSS officials this week confessed to school board members what parents have known for months if not the past two years: remote instruction didn’t...
Drug-sniffing dogs a valuable tool
Our commendations to interim ABSS superintendent Dr. Jim Merrill for his announcement this week that he will, in cooperation with local law enforcement officials...
Money, money, money – for everyone but the taxpayer
When this newspaper’s publisher was working in the national Capitol in the 1970’s and 1980’s, he was always impressed by the philosophy expressed by...
Consideration of nuclear nonproliferation treaty: what a colossal waste of time & misplaced energy
We’re sure that the proponents of a supposed United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons are devout and sincere in their support...
Property owners, beware
We think members of Burlington’s planning and zoning commission are on the right track with their recommendation to the city council that the notification...
Third-place finishers
We’re rather amused by some of the rhetoric that supposes that Melody Wiggins, who was defeated in her bid for re-election to the Graham...
