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ROTHENBURGER – It’s an election year; silly season is coming

WELCOME to Silly Season — it’s an election year. The term  “silly season” was coined to describe the uneventful media days of late summer when the kids were out of school, everybody was at the beach, and politicians were in recess along with everyone else. Reporters were reduced to covering the weather, someone’s 29 hand in cribbage, potatoes that look like Elvis and other such tidings that now became the stuff of front-page headlines. “There’s no such thing as a slow news day,” we’d tell our news staff. “Only slow reporters.” Over time, though, “silly season” became identified with the months leading up to civic elections, when incumbents and newbies begin promising us the moon, the stars and responsible spending. It usually began in the fall of election year as the dog days waned and community life re-started. But it kicks in earlier and earlier as the years pass. In November 2025, Coun. Dale Bass proclaimed that silly season was already underway, almost a year before the 2026 civic election. That was premature but the real silly season will arrive any day now. Council members will be pressing the flesh at every ribbon cutting, charity event and community gathering they [...]

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