Do you worry about taxes, property assessments, bad roads, fishing regulations, schools?

Use your voice.

Please help the Gazette-Journal compile local and state issues of interest to our readers, in preparation for November’s election of delegates, senators, supervisors, school board members, commissioners of revenue, sheriffs, treasurers and commonwealth’s attorneys.

All are on the ballot. All will have the opportunity to state their platforms. We would like to let them know, as well, what is on residents’ minds, and to find out how they respond to these concerns.

Already in: comments on youth and family services, EPA regulations, and local government.

The local government idea is too interesting to wait, and it would be too late, anyway, to apply to the November election.

Our writer, referring to the Aug. 23 Republican primary for the local House of Delegates seat, suggests the following: "We are fortunate (and frustrated) to have such good four a...