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  • Opinion: Legislative review process needed to check abuse

    Randy Pettigrew and Jim Townsend, Guest columnists|Updated Dec 26, 2023

    One of the fundamental principles of our representative republic is the concept of “checks and balances” to ensure one branch of government does not dominate the other branches. While this concept has been an accepted component of governing throughout our country’s history, sadly, the concept is often forgotten among the halls of the Roundhouse. In far too many cases over the past five years, the Democrat-controlled Legislature has refused to take action to preserve the constitutional authority of the legislative branch and h...