“Careful readers of this column, should there be any, may remember my position on direct democracy. That's the power of the people, imposed clearly in the state Constitution, to circulate petitions for ballot issues to repeal legislative enactments and enact citizen-initiated proposals.”

“Outside temperatures may have been in the 40s, but the overhead heating lamps had to be turned down for the most recent meeting of Washington County's League of Women Voters on March 5, held in the enclosed back porch of Crisis Brewing in Fayetteville.”