Our View: Love's is an economic opportunity

We’ve written a lot about economic development in this newspaper. So much so it’s a common theme for both news and opinion.

Economic development is an important activity for both the city and Sweetwater County to engage in, as it means more business activity, more opportunity and more commercial options for everyone. It also means more sales tax, which is a benefit for both cities because city budgets are mainly funded through sales tax.

This brings us to the conditional use permit application Love’s Travel Stops recently filed for its proposed truck stop west of Jamestown near Inters...