Opinion - Business as usual or business as usual

Whitman County commissioners Pat O’Neill and Greg Partch have dodged the bullet.

They faced a recall action, in part for alleged violations of the Open Public Meetings Act.

At the recall hearing Monday Judge William Acey declared that there was not enough evidence to proceed with the recall.

The next step would have been collecting enough signatures to get the recall on the ballot. This, of course, will not happen.

The recall action is over. The commissioners are on the job, and the legal cloud which was hanging over their heads is gone. Let’s hope, however, it is not back to business as usual...