Always interesting what news will move the needle — and we should no longer be surprised that it’s often not the “big” news story that does it. Monday, as we were coming out of our afternoon meeting in which we decide what will go on Page 1A in the paper, our city editor, Cathy Noah, [...]
Facebook at first glance seemed like a harmless sideshow. Now it has roughly 500 million users worldwide. But does that really make it a player in the news business? Yes. The MT has been on Facebook for a couple of years, but largely in a passive role, with stories automatically posting in the middle of [...]
(12:30 a.m.) Well, we got the next batch of election results at about 10:30 and went into Defcon 4, editing stories, matching them with photos and placing them on the pages. A mad dash, with little time for circumspection. So now, more or less in its wake, here’s some circumspection: Jackson County went heavily Republican, which [...]
First batch of Jackson County election results are in and a few stories can be written on the runaway races. But it’s the second round of ballots that usually nails down the bulk of the races. In May, that second round wasn’t reported out until after 11 p.m., which made a lot of news people [...]
No local concession speeches or declarations of victory that we’re aware of. But state Rep. Sal Esquivel, R-Medford, seemed confident his early comfortable lead would hold despite the onslaught of ads against him during the race. “Negative campaigns don’t work,” Esquivel said. “Negatives solidified the (Republican) base, and the base showed up.”
With all the apparent anti-government sentiment coursing through the body politic, one statewide ballot measure seems to run against the flow. Ballot Measure 71, which would create annual sessions of the Legislature, is passing handily just about everywhere in the state. With 910,000 votes in, the measure is passing 67 to 33 percent. With about 50,000 ballots [...]
An MT reporter’s phone conversation with state Rep. Dennis Richardson, R-Central Point, was interrupted by a huge roar when the latest results in the governor’s race were posted at the Chris Dudley party at the Rose Garden, showing Dudley leading by 10,000 votes statewide. The gap is now nearly 20,000, favoring Dudley.
OK, this could change things: County Clerk Chris Walker reports that thousands of ballots from Ashland have just arrived at the elections office. That certainly could change things in the Bates-Dotterrer race in which Dave Dotterrer, the Republican challenger for the state Senate seat, was leading by 1,200 votes. Also could affect commissioners’ races, although [...]
For those wondering if the Republican tidal wave would sweep through locally, the answer appears to be in and it’s … yes. With a 45 percent turnout counted so far (out of a projected 70 percent) GOP commissioner candidates Don Skundrick and John Rachor are leading by a lot (that’s a technical term) — Skundrick [...]
Looks like the county finally paid its electric bill or its computer got plugged in. Results available here.
