Your chance to change the Skagit

You can both imagine and make real this possibility: your influence deciding the shape of a new governing constitution for Skagit County. First you must pass the referendum calling to develop a charter. The 21 delegates, termed freeholders by the state’s19th century constitution, will then draft a charter framing a 21st century governance structure. We are much closer to the action than our 18th century ancestors were when our federal Constitution was created. Almost all of us would not have been eligible to vote.

Today all of us have a vote. Our participation, questioning freeholder candidate...