In all these cities, the candidates out there running today are unappreciated. When Strange tried to retire two years ago, Michael McKinney won the job. McKinney did not run for re-election and does not have a listed phone number, two facts that may or may not be related. Under a recent Texas law, write-in candidates, too, must register but have a later deadline. Strange waited until the afternoon that day and finally signed up.
Somebody has to do it.
We can't just be the town where nobody cared. No matter what you do, if there's two sides, you're always 50 percent wrong. I figured I'd just sit back and mow my 7 acres and not fight. But daytime TV isn't so good. Alvord, an old farming and ranching town named for a 19th-century railroad president, is not exactly swamped with suburban growth or urban problems.