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More Reason to Support Five

DISSENT

By Andrew L. Wright

The staff is right to vote "yes" on Question Five, but it forgets one important reason in an otherwise well-presented argument.

Local police chiefs have enough to do fighting crime and upholding the law to be burdened with the responsibility of deciding which stores should and should not be opened on Sundays.

Getting rid of blue laws will take this task out of the already over-burdened hands of local police and allow them to get back to their real job: "To protect and serve."

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