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When artist Alison Byrnes opened a package she had mailed to herself two years earlier, she was expecting to find a sealed box of her prints. But that's not what was inside. The United States Postal Service had made a serious mistake. Instead of artist prints, USPS delivered a little blue urn -- containing the ashes of a total stranger.
It’s a shame there was no possible remedy to just have a special election last November for the remaining two years of the sheriff’s term where such a dispute was still ongoing. I want this dispute to go on for years, growing more and more comical, until we end up with slapstick comedy that rivals the characters from Grumpy Old Men. Already former acting Sheriff Howard Buffett announced his plans last month to run for the office next year. Just in time for Howard Buffett to swoop in and claim a 2022 victory. His campaign would be fairly easy: a). claim Brown was illegitimate if he runs ag...