How best to start Mebane council meetings: moment of silence or prayer? David White:...
By MEBANE RESIDENT DAVID WHITE,
COMMENTS MADE DURING JANUARY 3, 2022 MEBANE CITY COUNCIL MEETING
My purpose tonight is not simply to speak on...
How best to start Mebane council meetings: moment of silence or prayer? Patty Philipps:...
By MEBANE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER PATTY PHILIPPS,
COMMENTS MADE DURING JANUARY 3, 2022 MEBANE CITY COUNCIL MEETING
The summary of the current legal opinions...
Good news of great joy
And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to...
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says, ‘If you see it in THE...
Scrooge – Part 2: how many raises are enough for public employees?
While we’re on the subject of disparities between government and the private sector, we also have to observe that another dimension of dissimilar treatment...
Scrooge – Part 1: how many days off are enough at Christmas?
Well, we hate to bring up the specter of Ebenezer Scrooge, but we do have to question the strikingly different experiences of private sector...
Hip hip hooray to new school board leadership
Our heartfelt congratulations to the new leadership of the Alamance-Burlington school board: new chairman Sandy Ellington-Graves and vice chairman Patsy Simpson.
And our thanks to...
Religion ambushed in Mebane
We’ve recently noted our view that the spontaneous decision by Graham’s city council to act on one member’s proposed change in policy (a new...
Caution, thoroughness needed in evaluating diversion center concept
We note that the county’s commissioners are going to resume their discussion about establishing a so-called diversion center during a work session now set...
More open, more competent search for next supt. badly needed
School board members are scheduled to resume their discussion about beginning the search for the school system’s next superintendent next week.
We suggest that they...
