For more than 50 years, the Transcript-Bulletin, which regularly publishes Tuesday and Thursday evenings, stayed up election nights to follow the results and put them on the doorsteps early on Wednesday mornings. This year, however, they chose to just publish the regular Tuesday paper. Even though the election was historic and results were awaited around the world, Tooele residents were denied any news at all on Wednesday morning, either local or national. After the whole world welcomed a new president — the first black person elected president in history — not a picture, not “Congratulations Obama,” or a show of the world celebrating the occasion on the front page. What we were greeted by was a small picture of a losing school board candidate, and a picture of our unopposed commissioner doing her knitting, and semi-large headlines reading, “Big night fizzles locally.” On page 5, there was a nothing article written by an AP newsman, restating many of the issues of the day, while TV media announced the great historic news around the world, and newspapers were selling for hundreds of dollars just for commemorative keepsakes. I wonder how many Bulletins will make it into anyone’s scrapbook. Shame, shame on the Transcript-Bulletin. What a slap in the face to you and your subscribers.

Beverly J. White

Tooele