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A reminder that today is Primary Election Day. The polls are open until 8 p.m.
Voters in most Mon-Yough area municipalities are nominating candidates for local offices, including mayor, borough or city council, township commissioners and school board.
The irony, of course, is that these offices have a very serious impact on our every day lives --- especially regarding taxation, local services and infrastructure maintenance --- but they're the offices to which we all pay the least attention. We can all name the president and our U.S. senators, but how many of us can name the mayor or president of our local school board?
Also on the ballot are party nominations for Allegheny County Common Pleas Court and state Commonwealth, Superior and Supreme courts. Don't know how to choose? Neither do I.
But you can go to the Allegheny County Bar Association's website and download a list of which judges are recommended. Ditto for Westmoreland County.
The Tribune-Review and Post-Gazette also endorsed candidates. You could do worse than considering their opinions.
Finally, several candidates for local offices submitted biographic information to Tube City Almanac. You can find that information here.
Get out and vote! And if you don't feel informed enough to make a choice in the primary, then educate yourself before Nov. 3. It's more than a right --- it's a responsibility.
Thanks for trying Jason. I think if you didn’t owe the Mayor in Mckeesport, you didn’t vote… :(
it’s all good.
Onward!
Paul
Paul "Sluggo" Shelly Jr. (URL) - May 21, 2009
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