Comments on Adirondack Almanack: New York State Supreme Court Elections Guide

No worries John, I can imagine it's pretty hard to...

2009-11-02T14:27:57.654-05:00

No worries John,
I can imagine it's pretty hard to keep up with the huge amount of information coming from so many sources.
I do agree with your suggustions about our online stories. It is something we should probably look into in the future.

Anyway, all of these back-and-forths aside, this h...

2009-11-02T14:22:37.060-05:00

Anyway, all of these back-and-forths aside, this has been a stellar election season for an off year. The 23rd race has indeed stolen the spotlight -- rightfully, I suppose -- from a number of other intriguing races, like the Essex County DA race and even the Tupper Lake town and village races... I complain about not getting enough sleep lately, but the truth is, when it's over I'll miss

Folks, I think a little perspective is in order he...

2009-11-02T14:20:05.430-05:00

Folks, I think a little perspective is in order here. This piece is basically a non-earth-shaking reminder of Tuesday's other races (and not even the local ones!) following a weekend where all the pre-Election Day oxygen was consumed by coverage of the marquee race in the 23rd CD. A reminder with links to more subjective information. I spent more time drawing the little picture than writing

Thanks Jon, noted. I could only find these two: ...

2009-11-02T14:16:27.526-05:00

Thanks Jon, noted.

I could only find these two:
http://www.wnbz.com/August%202009/082009/SupremeCourtCandidates.htm

http://www.wnbz.com/October%202009/101309/LocalJudge.htm

I think part of the problem is difficulty of finding stories. Even though I get the WNBZ RSS feed, I missed those stories.

It would also helpful if these stories linked to

Nathan had a good ones this past week two: http:...

2009-11-02T14:15:21.650-05:00

Nathan had a good ones this past week two:

http://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/509474.html

John, Untrue man. WNBZ has filed two judicial elec...

2009-11-02T14:08:01.651-05:00

John,
Untrue man. WNBZ has filed two judicial election stories this season. The first one involved interviews with at-least 4 of the candidates.
BTW, Kramer is a very good interview.

Maybe I'm wrong, but you won't find a story like t...

2009-11-02T13:15:34.435-05:00

Maybe I'm wrong, but you won't find a story like this anywhere.

Do a search for news about the judicial election.

The bottom line is that the local news reports have offered, generally, little of value.

There are exceptions, but it's mostly comments from punditry, this post, which I intended to praise (albeit ham-handedly), actually offers voters a

I'm not heaping claim, I'm just clarifying that at...

2009-11-02T13:06:50.219-05:00

I'm not heaping claim, I'm just clarifying that at each one of those sites, the lead stories are all election-related, not Halloween...

Mostly old news my friend. And considering the Wat...

2009-11-02T13:04:20.202-05:00

Mostly old news my friend. And considering the Watertown paper's approach to this election, I would hardly be heaping acclaim there.

Let's give local papers and radio credit where it'...

2009-11-02T13:04:15.089-05:00

Let's give local papers and radio credit where it's due here. The reporters work exhausting hours pre election day trying to cover every race. The Almanack has done armchair stuff--good armchair stuff, I've been a reader rather than contributor in this department--but we're not in the newsgatherers' league on this.

John: Daily Enterprise, three stories today alone....

2009-11-02T12:56:50.136-05:00

John: Daily Enterprise, three stories today alone. Press Republican: three today. Watertown Daily Times: FIVE. WXAX, WPTZ and WNBZ: at least one apiece. 12 stories on this election since May? That's not bad, but I've seen more than that in the Enterprise in 12 days...

I figured that would bring some of you out. When...

2009-11-02T12:54:28.550-05:00

I figured that would bring some of you out.

When I looked around the web just before making that comment, it looked just as I described.

Anonymous, look again. We've had about dozen stories on this election since May.

Thanks for reading.

I just scanned all the upstate papers, and I'm see...

2009-11-02T12:35:25.168-05:00

I just scanned all the upstate papers, and I'm seeing an average of three-to-four election-related pieces in every paper for the last week. Add to that coverage of local races, county DA and sheriff races, town races, judge races, etc., I'm wondering where the Almanack's coverage of all these races has been?

John, you guys just started running campaign stuff...

2009-11-02T12:25:53.749-05:00

John, you guys just started running campaign stuff two days ago, give me a break.

Mark, Thanks for posting this. While our local p...

2009-11-02T12:09:50.775-05:00

Mark,

Thanks for posting this. While our local papers are busy reporting the police blotter, Halloween pictures, or playing catch up with yesterday's news - thanks in part to you, we're out front with what matters.