Introducing candidate profiles

DAVENPORT—A quick look through this week’s issue of The Record-Times indicates one fact quite clearly: it is election season.

Stories about interim sheriffs, candidate forums and county and city business dot the pages this week, with plenty of graduation and Mule Days coverage to ease any tension or rising blood pressure one might feel from reading about local politics too much…ha!

As I feel the paper and county residents have made clear, the upcoming August primary is the most consequential primary election in Lincoln County in quite some time.

There will be a new sheriff and treasurer electe...