PEOPLE DO ALL SORTS OF THINGS ON ELECTION DAY. Most work at their jobs. Others, including political writers like me, spend many anxious hours waiting for the polls to close. It makes no difference how convinced you have been over this last year about the surety of your candidate’s win, on that day your mind […]
Benicia’s new political reality
Officials discuss Measure Q passage, election of new representatives By Donna Beth Weilenman Staff Reporter Voters agreed Tuesday to let Solano Community College issue a $348 million bond to make campus improvements, buy new equipment and make classes more affordable, especially for veterans and the disabled. The college’s Governing Board president, Rosemary Thurston, who was […]
Provisional ballots prove popular
As in 2008, voting officials tabulate high number in 2012 By Donna Beth Weilenman Staff Reporter What if you go to the polls, but your name isn’t on the rolls? What if Solano County Registrar of Voters contends it sent you a vote-by-mail ballot, but you never received it, or lost it? What if you […]
Benicia voters flock to the polls
■ Steady stream of city residents as local, state, federal candidates, ballot measures face judgment By Donna Beth Weilenman Staff Reporter Voting by mail is a growing trend, but in Benicia, for some voters, nothing beats going to the polls. “It’s been busy and steady,” Jeff Aberbach, inspector at Precinct 21010 at Benicia Senior Center, […]
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Election 2012: Benicia goes to the polls
Ballots may be cast until 8 p.m. Tuesday By Donna Beth Weilenman Staff Reporter Benicians who are registered to vote but opted not to cast their ballots by mail will go to polls throughout the city Tuesday to pick the next president, fill other offices and decide 11 ballot measures. President Barack Obama, a Democrat, […]
Election 2012: Obama, Romney not alone in presidential race
Chief aim of minor party candidates: Raise issues By Donna Beth Weilenman Staff Reporter Benicia voters who have watched televised forums recently might think that incumbent Barack Obama, a Democrat, and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, are their only choices for president in the general election Nov. 6. But the ballot has other candidates for […]
Voter registrations may set state record; numbers up in Solano County, Benicia, too
More than 18,000 have signed up to vote in city By Donna Beth Weilenman Staff Reporter California Secretary of State Debra Bowen said early estimates of the state’s voters registered in time to vote Nov. 6 may reach a record. “In the final 45 days leading up to the (Monday) voter registration deadline for the […]
Trustees support Measure Q, Prop. 30 on Nov. 6; say ‘no’ to Prop. 32
By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor In addition to approving a Strategic Plan last week, the Benicia Unified School District Board of Trustees gave a nod to the district’s official stance on Measure Q and Propositions 30 and 32.
Congress: Thompson, Loftin vie
By Donna Beth Weilenman Staff Reporter Incumbent Mike Thompson is being challenged by Randy Loftin for the Fifth District of the U.S. House of Representatives to be decided Nov. 6. For the first time since 1975, Benicians won’t be voting for George Miller, the Martinez Democrat who, like many other elected officials, are running in […]