{"id":13095,"date":"2020-06-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13095"},"modified":"2020-06-11T16:55:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T20:55:27","slug":"top-seventh-state-stories-may-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13095","title":{"rendered":"Top Seventh State Stories, May 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These were the top stories on Seventh State in May ranked by page views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Miscreants Run Wild at Elrich Press Conference<\/a>
2. MoCo is a Turnout Outlier<\/a>
3. MoCo’s Nasty School Board Race, Part One<\/a>
4. MoCo’s Nasty School Board Race, Part Two<\/a>
5. MoCo’s Nasty School Board Race, Part Three<\/a>
6. Who Signed the Anti-Austin Letter – and Who Did Not<\/a>
7. How MoCo Can Balance Public Health and the Economy<\/a>
8. Turnout Off to Slow Start<\/a>
9. Campaign Finance Reports, School Board Primary<\/a>
10. Elrich’s Hidden Tax Hike<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the most part, the leaders reflected the two big stories of the month: MoCo\u2019s mud-splattered school board contest and the county\u2019s low turnout in the primary. (It turns out that despite early data from the State Board of Elections, MoCo probably won\u2019t be last in the state<\/a>.) Also, the county deserves credit for posting a COVID-19 dashboard<\/a> just two days after we called for one<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

June promises to be another busy month. Thank you for reading Seventh State!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco. These were the top stories on Seventh State in May ranked by page views. 1. Miscreants Run Wild at Elrich Press Conference2. MoCo is a Turnout Outlier3. MoCo’s Nasty School Board Race, Part One4. MoCo’s Nasty School Board Race, Part Two5. MoCo’s Nasty School Board Race, Part Three6. Who Signed the Anti-Austin … Continue reading Top Seventh State Stories, May 2020<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[151,219,217],"tags":[1545,941,1567,1324],"class_list":["post-13095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-board-of-education","category-turnout","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-school-board","tag-turnout","tag-voter-turnout"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-3pd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13096,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13095\/revisions\/13096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}