Primary Pain

I have dreaded August since January.

Augusts in even numbered years mean one thing to me … I will be losing my mind (even more than normal).

Augusts contain Back-to-School sections, County Fair coverage, Fall Sports Sections and, in the aforementioned even-numbered years, … Election Sections.

You may have noticed that the actual paper is outweighed by the Primary Election Section by eight pages.

It is a pain … to put it lightly.

Getting Started

I started assigning candidates to my reporters as soon as the candidate filing list was concrete back in June.

We had discussions about what w...