In today's paper, we began a series of profiles of candidates for Green County Board. There are 31 seats on the board, all of them on the ballot Tuesday. Seven of the races are contested.
In these parts, that's considered a strong county election season. Green County Clerk Mike Doyle said he couldn't remember a time when so many seats were being contested.
Seven out of 31 races being contested isn't good. Not by any stretch of the imagination. But it's better. Hopefully that number will increase in two years.
We had candidate profile information for four of the races in today's edition, and plan to have either two more or the remaining three in Saturday's edition.
As municipal elections go, Tuesday's will be relatively quiet, in spite of the "flurry" of county board activity. There are no contested races in the City of Monroe, which is disappointing. Remember how much fun the last mayoral election was, when there were so many candidates that a primary was necessary? This year, nothing. Mayor Ron Marsh is running unopposed for a second term. None of the Monroe City Council seats up for election are contested. There are no contested races for the Monroe school board.
There are interesting referendums in the Monticello and Pecatonica school districts, though it's been relatively quiet in those communities, as well. Usually, that's a sign that a referendum will pass, although a fairly noncontroversial runup to the Black Hawk referendum last spring resulted in a defeat - erased later by a second-vote passage.
There are, as usual, a boatload of town races - some contested, many not. We'll have results of all of them in Wednesday's edition.
In these parts, that's considered a strong county election season. Green County Clerk Mike Doyle said he couldn't remember a time when so many seats were being contested.
Seven out of 31 races being contested isn't good. Not by any stretch of the imagination. But it's better. Hopefully that number will increase in two years.
We had candidate profile information for four of the races in today's edition, and plan to have either two more or the remaining three in Saturday's edition.
As municipal elections go, Tuesday's will be relatively quiet, in spite of the "flurry" of county board activity. There are no contested races in the City of Monroe, which is disappointing. Remember how much fun the last mayoral election was, when there were so many candidates that a primary was necessary? This year, nothing. Mayor Ron Marsh is running unopposed for a second term. None of the Monroe City Council seats up for election are contested. There are no contested races for the Monroe school board.
There are interesting referendums in the Monticello and Pecatonica school districts, though it's been relatively quiet in those communities, as well. Usually, that's a sign that a referendum will pass, although a fairly noncontroversial runup to the Black Hawk referendum last spring resulted in a defeat - erased later by a second-vote passage.
There are, as usual, a boatload of town races - some contested, many not. We'll have results of all of them in Wednesday's edition.
