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The Public Asks: Were county commissioners wrong to attend grassroots event...
QUESTION: Was it appropriate for three of Alamance County’s five county commissioners to participate in a community meeting that some residents had organized in...
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What restrictions, if any, will city council put on sale of...
Meanwhile, Sesquicentennial Park Citizens Committee formed with hopes to buy the property
Graham’s city council could decide Tuesday night whether to impose any deed restrictions...
OPINION
ENOUGH!
This newspaper has covered local governments for the at least the past 69 years.
We’ve seen all sorts of combinations of mayors and council members,...
Selling off Sesquicentennial Park: such a shame
All we can do is continually shake our head in disbelief and disgust that Graham’s city council can be so deaf to the overwhelming...
Here’s hoping ABSS is getting better than “low-performing”
Alamance-Burlington school officials and their supporters were practically giddy this week over what they consider to be, as the superintendent put it, “a banner...
School system’s unreasonably high budget demand enables commissioners to hold the line against...
Our thanks this week to Alamance County’s commissioners who held the line against increased spending demands made by the Alamance-Burlington school board.
State law has...
The advantages of being a public sector employee
We often wonder when we’ll reach the tipping point where there aren’t enough private sector workers to finance the salaries and benefits of government...