STOP THE PIXELS!! THIS JUST IN! AMPHI SCHOOL FUNDING WINS!

by David Safier

(Is that going to be the new newsroom scream in an increasingly paperless journalistic world — Stop the Pixels? It lacks the punch of Stop the Presses! somehow.)

Anyway, yesterday I posted about an editorial Dave Perry wrote in The Explorer concerning the Amphi School funding election. I wrote this:

At press time, Perry wrote, the Amphi property tax extension was up by 26 votes. Unfortunately, today's Star has it going down by 28.

I based my statement about the loss on this sentence in yesterday's Star.

The Amphitheater override for maintenance and operations was close — losing by 28 votes after the latest tabulation.

Well, the Star got it wrong and Perry got it right. A correction in today's Star says the article

gave the wrong vote margin for Amphitheater Schools maintenance and operations override. It won by 28 votes.

Kudos to Amphi for the narrow win. Kudos to Perry (the Editor/Publisher of the paper where I write a weekly column) for getting it right. As for the Star . . . mistakes happen.