The same thing happened to me in France - only I got locked in when everyone went for lunch. So, I propped open the door and went to my car to have bread, cheese and fruit I had just bought before arriving. Jerry Timmons Jerry Cowley wrote: > Tempting as the letter idea is :-) (and it is SUCH a clever one) we need to > heed Wayne's advice. I used to write for a newspaper. Unsigned letters do > not get published. The best we could hope for is a feature from a > sympathetic editor on the situation. I wrote to the county commissioner last > time around and didn't even get a reply. Since that hasn't happened with > past efforts, we may just need to continue to nibble away at the > informational needs in other ways. The question is, then, it the editor of > the paper willing to antagonize the political officers who place the > highly-paid bread-and-butter legal ads and designate his or her paper as the > legal county paper? Is he or she willing to antagonize those related to the > political officers who run businesses and place other ads in the paper? > Would our issue be worth it? > > Does anyone know this editor? > > On a happier note, I was in the courthouse of a small Idaho county last > week. The clerks just pointed me to the indexes and showed me how to use > them to get to documents in the registers and let me do my thing. They > helped me get the copies I needed, and copy the data I wanted for half a > day. They only asked what I was using it for and I said "to document family > history." > > Jerry in Idaho