Green Mountain Meandering Missives

Montpelier City Meeting campaign sign season (Main Street roundabout; photos taken in the early, foggy, morning of Sunday, March 3, 2024).

  Democracy Matters A virtual snapshot from behind the scenes at the election polls on City Meeting Day in Montpelier last year (2023) (Selfie: Former Justice of the Peace, Morgan W. Brown, after arriving early in the morning at City Hall on City Meeting Day, 2023) As a newly elected Justice of the Peace (JP; since resigned, in September 2023) as well as a (now former) member of the local Board of Civil Authority (BCA), having officially taken office along with other new and incumbent JP's on February 1st (2023), I had an opportunity to volunteer as a poll worker for several hours during the City Meeting held in Montpelier last year (Tuesday, March 7, 2023).  Although I have previously intended to do so from time to time in years past, this was my very first time volunteering at the polls as a poll worker.  While my father had brought me to the polls as a youth whenever he voted; and, later on, having voted myself when I first became of age to participate (in 1976, firs...