New articles on the Overland Examiner!

When I wrote the short note about "Catching Up" I had no idea how well that would go. As you can see there are several new articles available here. For everyone's convenience I thought it best to put a summary article up.

At the end of last week I posted an article covering the July 3rd Workshop meeting as well as the video of that meeting. The Council discussed a host of issues at that time from creating an investment policy to dealing with the rat problem in several areas of the City.

Last night I was able to get the video as well as an excessively long article online covering the July 9th Council Meeting. The meeting was short but several issues came up that deserved attention. Remember, I warned you, this one is a long one so dress appropriately.

Over the last several weeks I've been working on an article about one of our police officers, Jeff Scheffer. I was finally able to complete it and get it online this evening. I also reworked an older article to pass along voting information. and try to make it easier for our readers to find information they may need.

Along the way I found the time to add a new poll (covering who people plan to vote for in August). We had 20 votes in the first 6 or 7 hours this poll was up which is a record here. I also updated the local events list so there's plenty to read in the left sidebar as well. Though I tried to cover everything, I have been out of the loop for a few weeks so if you see that an event is missing, please email me about it.

Looks like the Overland Examiner is finally getting back on track. I have calls out to the various candidates for Mayor to get photos and information for a Candidates list, and I've done some prep work on an article to present Wednesday's League of Women Voter's Candidates Debate as soon as possible. If all goes well, I hope the site will be back in the groove by the end of the week.

Of course as soon as we get it together everything will change as we're hoping to launch a new version of the site in just a few weeks. A web design firm has been working hard to help bring this together for us and hopefully we will have the first stage online very soon (we'll have to wait to see how long it takes me to master it).

It seems appropriate that I got caught up and back on track at this time. It was a year ago today that the Overland Examiner first went online. So, Happy Birthday OE!, sorry I've been neglecting you lately. He's a trip down memory lane for everyone interested: The first post on the Overland Examiner.

A Reminder: The League of Women Voters will be holding a Mayoral Candidates Debate tomorrow evening (Wednesday July 11th, 2007) at the Lions Hall on Lackland (near Lackland and Sims). The Debate starts at 7:00PM so be sure to attend. Make sure to think about what questions you would like to see asked as the moderator selects the questions from those submitted by the audience. If you can't make it we will be "taping" the debate and will try to get it online here as soon as possible.

As you can see the rumors of my demise were greatly exaggerated. Thanks for putting up with the silence. I hope the work over the last few days is a good first step towards making up for that.