Almost 100 staff at Cardiff energy company at risk of redundancy
The city centre office is at risk of closure less than five years after opening
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Almost 100 people at an energy company in Cardiff are at risk of redundancy due to fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
Opus Energy, which only opened an office in Cardiff in 2016, is set to scale down the business including considering closing the city centre office based in the Capital Quarter.
Bobo looks to be moving on in West Point mayor’s race
Rod Bobo
WEST POINT As the decisive absentee ballot counting stretched into the early morning hours Wednesday, Rod Bobo debated whether to leave the West Point Civic Center and find out the results later in the day.
“It was grueling, just waiting and waiting,” Bobo said. “But I stuck around. I wouldn’t have been able to sleep anyway.”
Finally, at about 1;30 a.m., Bobo got the news he had been waiting for.
Bobo held a 90-vote advantage over his main competition, Cole Bryan 1,593 to 1,503 for the Democratic Party nominee for West Point mayor heading into the June 8 general election against Homer Ryland Jr. (Independent) and Jennifer Harper (Constitution). A third candidate in Tuesday’s Democratic Primary, Tammy Parkerson, didn’t factor into the outcome directly, but the 68 votes she received may yet cast the primary race into a runoff.
Bobo leads West Point mayor’s race with absentees still being processed
Ken Poole
WEST POINT Only one of West Point’s four Democratic primary races had been settled Tuesday evening due to a discrepancy in the absentee vote tallies.
A computer readout of 594 absentee votes did not match the number of paper ballots counted, leaving election officials tediously looking to resolve the issue heading into midnight today.
With enough absentee votes in each ward to alter the outcome, the winner in the mayoral primary and selectmen races in Wards 1 and Ward 5 had yet to be determined.
Rod Bobo
Only in Ward 3, where incumbent Ken Poole held a 122-vote lead over challenger Jonas Robinson with 112 absentee votes outstanding, did the outcome appear clear, although Democratic Party coordinator Jeanatta Edwards said an unknown number of affidavit ballots remained to be counted in that race as well.
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Turner, Poole submit late finance reports in West Point
By Dispatch Staff Report 3 hours ago
WEST POINT A pair of selectmen incumbents turned in their pre-primary campaign finance reports with the city clerk’s office Monday, six days after the deadline but a day before primary voters went to the ballot.
Candidates in municipal races running in party primaries were required to file campaign finance primary pre-election reports by 5 p.m. March 30. Those reports must include the totals a candidate took in and spent, as well as itemize, or identify, each contribution or disbursement of more than $200. Those $200 or less can be considered non-itemized and are not required to be identified.