The courts have decided to let Ellen Frost have the seventh seat on the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners. As of this writing, the newspapers didn’t know to what extent challenger Christina Kelley G. Merrill would continue to appeal. Frost was sworn in right after the commissioners’ open meeting tonight.

The good news is she repeatedly swore she would uphold the US Constitution; but then, so did the others. The bad news is the commissioners won’t have an excuse for deferring big decisions anymore.