L&T Publisher Earl Watt

Why haven’t you signed up yet?

With less than a week to go before the deadline for candidates to sign up, there is only one name so far for three Seward County Commission seats.

When three commissioners resigned in December, 13 people stepped up to fill the empty slots, and three were selected to finish the last year of the unexpired terms, and whether or not you agree with how those three have served, they deserve our thanks for being willing to serve.

And not just them but the other 10 who also put their name on the list. Each of the three district had choices, and that is critical to a functioning democracy.

After all, if there are no candidates, how do we, the people choose our representatives?

All 13 provided the precinct committee men and women choices.

THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon

“I had a mother who read to me

Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea,

Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth,

“Blackbirds” stowed in the hold beneath.”

I am “up north,” as people say, spending time with my parents at their cabin. My parents are spending more time in town, especially in the winter. But now it is spring, and to hear them tell it, being a nonagenarian is no reason to stay away from the place they love best.

MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron

After ten articles which have highlighted some causes of the Revolutionary War, we'll pause this week to show some applications, as a transfer of power began between the mother land and her subjects across the Atlantic.

Until the conclusion of the French and Indian War in 1763, salutary or benign neglect had been the practice of Britain toward the colonies. Economic systems and methods of governance had been developed in accordance with royal charters; so in most respects, Colonials were free to practice self-governance according to English common law.

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

It’s amazing to see how people come together when faced with adversity.

Seward County rallies when facing challenges like fires, or even in fun when we put our best runner against the best runner of Olney, England in the International Pancake Race.

But it’s not very often when the public rallies to fight an injustice of an unneeded and unwarranted tax increase like the one passed Sept. 15 by the Seward County Commission.

There is no need to rehash what we already know — the tax was unpopular and supported by elected officials who refused to listen to the public.