Tag: Election Day
Up in smoke
October 30, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
In the last stretch of this year’s election cycle the candidates are really burning up the trail, at least the parts of it not already on fire.
That’s right in several states political violence rose to the level of arson as ballot boxes were set on fire in Oregon, Washington, and even Arizona recently. The good news is, sometimes we learn our lessons and there were cameras monitoring a few of those sites.
In fact, a suspect is already in custody in the Arizona case, and I expect...
October not so surprising
October 16, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
Anyone who would dare saunter up to me to complain about Christmas decorations going in the stores too early this year has never worked at a news desk in an election year.
That’s right, every four years Santa delivers coal to a reporter’s inbox for 12-14 months straight. I cannot explain to anyone reading this the joy I feel knowing that I won’t be up all-night waiting for confirmation on results in local races, or God forbid, sitting at a campaign headquarters, or any of the...
'Security failure'
July 17, 2024Cory Harris, Editor
My blog title came from the mouths of several high-ranking law enforcement and government officials over the last couple of days, and all we could do is ask, “How did this happen?"
How did a 20-year-old would-be assassin somehow get on the roof of a building during a Donald Trump rally in Butler, Pa., and fire a series of rounds that grazed the presidential nominee’s ear, and sadly and tragically kill an innocent spectator protecting his family?
That’s a question that...