With less than 11 weeks to go to election day, interest in politics, nationally and locally, is growing steadily.
We’re determined to provide comprehensive coverage of local politics here on Berkeleyside, looking at the issues, the candidates and the many ballot measures voters will encounter on November 6.
In addition to our news coverage, we have already published a number of candidate profiles, and we’ll be doing more (see below for a list of some of the articles we have written so far). We also plan to try a number of more innovative approaches in our coverage this election season, using some of the powerful Web tools that exist to provide more data and more opportunities for our readers to engage with local politics. We’ll be rolling some of these innovations out in the coming weeks.
Through all this, we will try to be as objective as we can. Berkeleyside doesn’t endorse candidates or positions, and we have no plans to do so. We do accept political advertising — at our usual rates — which is open to all candidates on a space-available basis. The ad sales side of Berkeleyside is run separately from the editorial side.
If you have ideas for political stories you’d like us to cover, please let us know in the comments below.
Related:
Roster of 2012 Berkeley candidates firms up [08.13.12]
Capitelli, Bates, lead in campaign fundraising [08.06.12]
Beat poet joins crowded field for mayoral race (07.19.12)
Max Anderson kicks off council re-election campaign (07.02.12)
Jacquelyn McCormick vows to be a more inclusive mayor (06.18.12)
Sophie Hahn announces candidacy for City Council (05.09.12)
Berkeley’s Mayor Tom Bates announces his re-election bid (04.26.12)
