Last Week:

• The ballot you received was probably incorrect! The printer screwed up and mailed almost 15,000 incorrect ballots to voters in Teller County. You’ll know it’s wrong if it doesn’t have the school board races on there. New ballots were being mailed last Friday. Read more here.
• I wonder if the Courier has ever seen so many people submit Letters to the Editor? Read a few of the latest here.
• I wanted to learn more about Mick Bates, and was surprised at what I found.
• The WPHS students held their forum for school board candidates Saturday in the public library. A packed room listened to Knott, Bryant, and Barkley field questions from students only (the three incumbents did not attend). This was the fifth candidate forum for this school board race, yet a couple community members are working to possibly organize a sixth(!) forum. They have very little time to pull this off, but they’re trying to structure this in a way that would finally get all six candidates in the same room at the same time.
• Colorado Public Radio published a story about school board races to watch in Colorado.
• The Gazette published an article about the packed board meeting from 10/11, which once again reached capacity and turned people away at the door.

Here’s what’s coming up this week:

• Reprinted ballots should hit our mailboxes in the first part of the week.
• Will there be a sixth candidate forum? I’d place the odds at 50/50.
• The next board meeting is scheduled for the day after the election November 8th (they’re normally scheduled on the second Wednesday of the month like this).