The patent office is overwhelmed because they don't have enough staff.

If you think that you or someone you know fits into this category, contact the County Election Board office at 580-326-5164 as soon as possible for more information.

This leads us to believe that we're not experiencing a real crisis of innovation but rather an enormous backlog of (patent) applications being processed.

Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves.

We've acted properly in this office, ... I understand the pressures and I understand this group just wants to pay less taxes. If you want to be an assessor and can't take the heat, don't do the job.

Fort Bragg is a city with thousands of residents, more than 20 million square feet of office buildings and all of the associated needs and demands placed on emergency services workers.