The Bee offers its recommendations

This week, The Bee offers its recommendations on key ballot choices facing Modesto voters. As editor Mark Vasché explained in a column last Sunday, these recommendations represent the consensus views of the editorial board, whose names appear at the bottom of this page.

His column is available at www.modbee.com/opinion. (The third-quarter visiting editors sat in on the candidate interviews; the fourth-quarter visiting editors just joined us this week.) Reporters are not involved in the endorsement process.

We welcome letters to the editor about these and other election issues. See the guidelines on the adjoining page.

TODAY: Measures A through E, all advisory votes on future sewer extensions.

TUESDAY: Modesto City Council, Districts 2, 4 and 5

THURSDAY: Modesto City Schools board

FRIDAY: Modesto Irrigation District, Divisions 2, 3 and 4.