Health assessments identify county’s top priorities

The Taylor County Board, through its standing oversight committees, needs to continue to have a role in the hiring of key employee leadership positions within county departments. Over recent years, Taylor County has been working toward implementing a more structured and streamlined leadership process with the goal of creating a more professional and uniform approach toward personnel management,...

Who’s to judge? This spring we saw the most expensive state supreme court race in history. On April 7th, we’ll vote again, and I’m not looking forward to another flood of dark-money attack ads. Chris Taylor, a liberal, and Maria Lazar, a conservative, are on the ballot—yet most voters know little about either. So how do we choose? I start by asking: What are their values? What does t...