Our View

From both a personal and community perspective, we’d like to commend the boards and districts that have been conscientiously providing online access to their meetings throughout this pandemic. Not only has it allowed the public to avoid small rooms of large groups – the kind of places we’ve all been warned about by health experts – it has opened a new line of transparency to the people of Crook County.

Offering choice is always commendable, when it’s possible to do so. Not everyone can take time off during the working day, or leave the kids in the evening, or even leave their hous...