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Today is an Election Day.
The election in question is a primary election for numerous municipal positions and school boards. The 2025 election cycle, like most cycles that fall between presidential and congressional elections, often fails to receive the level of attention to which voters hold those presidential and congressional races.
But as we have editorialized in the past, local elections are important. And, if the principles for which a majority of our region's voters frequently cast their votes ever come to be more firmly embedded, they will be more important still.
We generally agree with our region's voters that the authority of the federal government and state government should be more constrained, more limited. We believe, as we frequently express, that both our federal government and state government spend too much. Our system is designed to best entrust power to the levels of government closest to its constituents -- these are the public officials that understand your communities and neighborhoods best and the public officials who have the most at stake when the consequences of their decisions are felt in those communities and neighborhoods.
And yet often, we see less interest in how our communities, counties and school districts are being governed. Other news sources in our region, to put it bluntly, fail to cover many of these public institutions at all. They instead prefer to focus on sharing lurid and sensationalized crime stories from across the state.
But we recognize, both on the eve of another election and on every day throughout the year, that the set of principles enshrined in our U.S. Constitution requires both voters to take local government seriously and news organizations to provide thorough coverage of local governing.
It is an essential role we take seriously and we hope voters take their essential role as seriously tomorrow as well.