Two stories about the power of one:
A Riceville school board candidate failed to win election because he didn’t take time to vote for himself — and no one else did either.
In Columbia, Missouri, businesses along Business Loop I-70 created a “community improvement district” specifically designed to exclude residents so they could impose a sales-tax increase — except a student moved into a rental house and became the sole voter in the bounded area. Under Missouri law, that meant she alone would decide on the increase, and after doing research she opposed it. There won’t be any vote at all.