Next election, the most important ever.

Every election season posits itself pivotal in the course of humankind.  Each is.

By definition, it's too late for the people to exercise their rights and responsibilities in creating a government that is by the people, of the people and for the people, in the last election.

The next election in the Albuquerque area is a three-fer, a school board election, a bond issue election, and a mill levy election.  They are all important on their face.

Each is extraordinarily important in its own right.  The bond issue and mill levy amount to a third of a billion dollars; that's important.

Most importantly, the direction of  leadership of the APS is at stake.  A majority of school board seats are up for election.

The potential impact is enormous.  Nearly 90 thousand of this community's sons and daughters look to the school board and senior administration for an opportunity to be educated according to their full potential.  It is important, who gets elected.

So where is public interest in these elections?

They are held at the worst possible time, and have the lowest voter participation of any election I know about.

Were that not enough, potential voters are given no information and hence no impetus to pay attention and to vote.  I hold the press responsible.

It is their (sacred) obligation, is it not, to let the people know how important the elections really are, and not just to report upon how important they were?

Not after the fact, but before.  Before the elections,
when it can still make a difference.

And while we’re at it, why not publish the circumstances of this election before candidate filing day?  Early enough that a number of men and women of character and courage have the time to consider whether service on the school board is their calling.