Cheers and jeers from around the news:

• Jeers to Olympia Gaming for refusing to identify all of its partners in Evergreen Mountain Enterprises. One is Seth Carey, who founded Evergreen. Another nine are only said to live in Maine.

The ballot question asks whether a “certain Maine company” can open a casino in Oxford County. Olympia’s status as a “Maine company” is subject to debate. And its arguable these partners are the strongest – and perhaps only – Maine ties Olympia Gaming can truly boast.

There’s another issue. These partners were Carey’s who now is called a “liability” by campaign officials.

His erratic management of the casino campaign is well-known, as are his public troubles. If Carey is thought a liability, how should his partners be considered?

Olympia Gaming said these partners are a nonissue. If so, there’s little reason to keep them secret.

These silent partners should be named. If not by Olympia Gaming, then by naming themselves.

• Cheers for Scot Grassette and his world-class idea to draft the world-record Letter to Santa from the rolls of the NewPage mill in Rumford. It’s a great, imaginative idea for the community.

• Jeers to the city of Lewiston, for its consolidation of polling places. This went unnoticed when passed during the summer, but it’s now of great concern.

Voter turnout on Nov. 4 is expected to smash expectations. Cramming voters from three city wards into the Multi-Purpose Center, as enacted by the council, seems a recipe for confusion. The city should reconsider this decision, restore the polling places as in previous years, and hold its changes for next year.

Efficiency of services are warranted. But wise preparations for the deluge is wiser. The council had good intentions when it changed polling places earlier in the year, but electoral demands call for delay.

• Cheers to Lewiston and Auburn school departments for splitting a $4.6 million grant to improve security and social programs. The hiring of the coordinator to implement the grant, Rosemary Kooy, was announced recently.

Kooy has a big job ahead – with great funding comes great expectations. The issues that the funding addresses, like mental health services, substance abuse, early childhood education, etc., are complex and challenging.

School officials have confidence she can make measurable progress. Given the resources available, so do we.

• Cheers: Beautiful mid-autumn weather, the Red Sox in the playoffs and Eastern Standard Time, Rep. Tom Allen for telling the Sun Journal’s editorial board that he “owes one” to Lewiston-Auburn for the postal center, and Todd Palin’s visit to rally the party faithful.

• Jeers: A national debt clock that’s run out of digits; a stock market that has many fewer digits than it once had, as well; the joy of lower gasoline and heating oil prices being tempered by global financial catastrophe; and Todd Palin’s visit, for being a political booby-prize. We wanted the Barracuda.