3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1598+ words) Alamance-Burlington school board members are considering launching a state-funded Artificial Intelligence school safety pilot program that had been rejected by another school system over concerns about mass surveillance and privacy rights. The AI surveillance system would be funded by a…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (699+ words) Mebane’s city council took an unprecedented step Tuesday night in voting to start down the path of approving $381,547 toward the cost of a new elementary school planned by Orange County Schools on the edge of the city. Mebane officials had…...

3+ week, 14+ hour ago   (1208+ words) A pair of supposedly routine grant applications from Alamance County’s sheriff kicked up quite the kerfuffle when they came before the county’s board of commissioners at the end of a marathon meeting on Monday. These two applications had initially been…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago   (1737+ words) It may’ve required the storage capacity of a mid-size server farm to hold all the feedback that Alamance County’s commissioners took in this week before they imposed a year-long moratorium on new data centers in unincorporated parts of the county....

3+ week, 15+ hour ago   (248+ words) Not everyone who addressed the commissioners on Monday was equally chary about the potential impact of data centers. Susan Bertuccelli endorsed the proposed moratorium in order to give county officials some time to weed out the “misconceptions” that she said…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (460+ words) Burlington city council has tapped attorney Christina Benson for one of the city’s two seats on the appointed board that oversees the state-owned liquor stores in most of Alamance County. The council appointed Benson on Tuesday to take over a…...

4+ week, 16+ hour ago   (797+ words) A former accounting professor who sued Elon University for alleged wrongful termination earlier this year has lost both rounds in his legal fight: his first suit was dismissed from the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina on…...

4+ week, 15+ hour ago   (452+ words) Graham city councilman Jim Young criticized the city’s mayor over a proposed new committee she is organizing outside of the official municipal committees appointed by the city council. In particular, Young didn’t like the fact that the link for a…...