Casting your ballot … and your cares

I am writing this about mid-morning Tuesday. I started my public day with a trip to the Pine Bluffs Community Center with my daughter so we could vote. She was a bit apprehensive, not sure she had a good grasp of all the issues and candidates for office. It was a fairly lengthy ballot, so I could understand how she felt.

Leading up to Tuesday we were subjected to hour after hour and pages and pages of political ads, and news articles telling us what rotten thing which candidate had done or said. It was irritating to me more this year more than others. And I would love to say the mess is nearly...