Musing - on the editor's mind

Last week I finally got my Washington driver’s license and license plates. Then I went to the Mount Vernon library to work. Here is a slice of my life:

The clerk at the Department of Licensing asked if I wanted to register to vote. Bless her. Yes, I did, and did. No forms or anything. It was part of the state, automatic. Sometimes citizenship needs to be that easy.

The Department of Licensing is an agency of state government. Great. In Ohio, licensing bureaus are contract companies the state hires. The owners get a piece of every transaction. The employees work for them. There is a whiff of pa...