Columns, Opinion

LOOSE ENDS: Are you going to the dinner and dance?

Are you going to the dinner and dance this year?” is the annual question usually asked by county residents at the beginning of the summer. If the answer was a resounding “yes!” then you didn’t have to answer the second question: “How long have YOU lived here?”

The residency requirement was important as one either had to be born in the county or had lived here for 30 years. The elimination of that requirement a…