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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 Sign up to FREE email alerts from Wales Online - Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice 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. ....
Our View: Today’s vote is consequential; make your voice heard Today, Golden Triangle voters have the opportunity to participate in our nation’s most intimate form of self-government. Although municipal elections rarely generate the interest and passion typically found in state and national elections, the decisions made in today’s primary elections and in the June general election often have more direct impact on the lives of voters than any other election. The people chosen for office will be entrusted with how our cities operate – everything from taxes to police and fire to streets to public parks, zoning and a host of other decisions that have a direct bearing on the lives of citizens. There is nothing abstract about the roles these officials will play over the next four years. This is governing at its most basic level. ....
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. ....