Regarding the Opelika mayoral race, I was glad to see that the Opelika-Auburn News tackled the financial reports from the two candidates and broke them down for readers. The bottom line: Mayor Gary Fuller has outraised challenger Rainer Meadows nearly four to one over the past 45 days. You can read Beverly Harvey’s article here and see the raw data of contributions and expenditures for yourself here.

There’s more to these reports than that four-to-one ratio. I’ll have more analysis of these numbers over the next couple of days.