The Long Beach Post is changing the way we write about elections, and we need your help.

Past coverage—often focused on the loudest, most well-funded campaigns—hasn’t always been useful. This year, our aim is to focus everything we do around you, the reader and voter, instead of the candidates.

To do that, we need to know what matters to you. What do you need to know to make an informed decision?

With that goal in mind, we hope you’ll fill out this anonymous survey about the top issues facing your neighborhood.

Any information you provide will be kept confidential and only be used to inform our coverage of June 7, 2022, primary election.

There’s a lot at stake in that election. Long Beach voters will start the process of selecting a new mayor, a new congressional representative, five City Council members and other powerful representatives. These are the people charged with spending our money, safeguarding the public during a pandemic, ensuring government services are equitable and representing our city to the outside world.

Keep an eye out for more surveys and chances to shape our coverage as we try something new this election season.

Jeremiah Dobruck is executive editor of the Long Beach Post where he oversees all day-to-day newsroom operations. In his time working as a journalist in Long Beach, he’s won numerous awards for his investigative reporting and editing. Before coming to the Post in 2018, he wrote for publications including the Press-Telegram, Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times. Reach him at [email protected] or @jeremiahdobruck on Twitter.