2020 started out with so much potential. Now it can’t end quick enough.

Editor’s note: A version of this piece ran in December 2018.

In The Reporter’s latest poll concerning Columbus Day, 69.2% of voters said they were in favor of the holiday while 30. 8% said they were against it.

This is an editorial column.

You may have heard of business campaigns to “shop local” to support hometown communities. Voting in local elections may be just as, if not more, important.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness.”