Election coverage and early voting: Enhanced timing, please.

Borrowed from J.U.

I made this point last October, and the departing editor actually agreed with me, so this time I'll be very gentle. If the newspaper is going to have election information, which is good, then the articles need to begin before voting starts. The following appeared yesterday (April 18). Early voting began at the clerk's office on April 5. The release of the newspaper's questionnaire still seems timed to occur just before people "go" to the polls -- except by then, they'll have been going to the polls for almost a month.

Thank you.

ELECTION PREVIEW: Floyd County councilmen eyeing commissioners' seat, by Chris Morris (Jeffersonville Uber Alles)

NEW ALBANY — John Schellenberger and Cam Wright are both members of the Floyd County Council and the two are political allies on paper — both are Republicans.

But next month, the two will square off in the primary race for Floyd County Commissioner District 2. The winner will face Democratic incumbent Chuck Freiberger in the fall.

NA-FC schools ... the ol' "cut and run"?

With the clock ticking, a Tribune reader offers a relevant timeline.

LETTER: Reader: People of New Albany owed more than a ‘cut and run’ plan, by Norma Condra.

... I note the lightening speed to which this process has been presented to the public. On Wednesday, Feb. 24, the corporation alerted the media they would reveal the details of their Expenditure Reduction Plan on March 4, conduct a public hearing, a.k.a. a formality, on March 8 and vote on the plan on March 11. Interestingly, the deadline to file for school board candidacy for the May primary was Feb. 19. Is the implementation of the plan all sewn up, to include preventing angry parents from running for available school board seats?