You're in for some ghoulish good times, and we're not just talking about the upcoming election.
Things are both as loud as a haunted house and as quiet as the pregnant silence you'd find in any old slasher film right now: While the weekend is absolutely stacked with more than enough things to do—and while we imagine you already know where you plan on being, we have a LOT of Halloween options here for you—it's also eerily quiet in a lot of ways.
The political parties vying for seats in city hall are scrambling for press coverage, so much so that it forms a sound akin to static on an old TV set. There's so much out there that the best we can do is offer our own takes, because including what every other outlet out there is saying would make this edition of the Bulletin number in at 3,000+ words. Hell, even this intro is getting too long.
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