Sunday, December 28, 2014

Pomp, circumstance and fickle fingers: Vote now for New Albany's "Person of the Year" for 2014.



Previously we've surveyed the results of the past three years.

ON THE AVENUES: Who (or what) is New Albany's "Person of the Year" for 2014?


Now it's time to look back on 2014 and make a selection.

Previous winners:

2011: The Sherman Minton Bridge.
2012: Bill Allen and his Dilapidated Main Street Paint Job
2013 (tie): Houndmouth and Quality of Life

What it means:
Person of the Year (formerly Man of the Year) is an annual issue of the United States newsmagazine Time that features and profiles a person, couple, group, idea, place, or machine that "for better or for worse ... has done the most to influence the events of the year."
Here are the three finalists for 2014, based on your responses:


  • Heroic Non-Incentivized Downtown Developers ... Chalfant, Resch, Carters, among others. They're rehabbing buildings, and the city's industrial park-centric economic development team has almost nothing to do with it.
  • Jeff Gahan … during three years on the job, municipal government's daily operations bear the mayor's stamp: Inward, paranoid and hermetic. Agoraphobia never had it this good, but his hologram is the hardest working computer-generated image in show business.
  • Our local Democratic Party … but logically speaking, can non-corporeal bodies capture corporeal awards? Quick, someone find a theologian, a ham-fisted censor, Connie Sipes or even Walt Disney. Meanwhile, let your mind's eye conjure an ongoing implosion.
  • Write-In ... Or, you can still submit another choice. Main Street Deforestation Project? Jeff Speck? Monster trucks?


Submit your votes to me as a comment here or at Facebook, or as an e-mail to roger(at)newalbanian(dot)com, with a voting deadline of midnight, December 31. The winner will be announced on January 1.


7 comments:

Iamhoosier said...

I've decided to vote positive this year.

Heroic Non-Incentivized Downtown Developers

(well, kinda positive)

The New Albanian said...

I think that's a THE positive vote.

Kate Caufield said...

I'd like to nominate all of the wrong way drivers.

The New Albanian said...

Currently we have a 6-way tie.

maury k goldberg said...

I vote for the" Heroic Non-Incentivized Downtown Developers." Change for the better.

SBAvanti63 said...

H.N.D.D. is the positive vote, and mine.

Bob "Not MY Pearl Street" Caesar deserves something - maybe dinner at Federal Hill Cafe and drinks at the Windsor. Seems suitable for someone who has done so much to encourage downtown business apart from his own.

The New Albanian said...

Maybe Bail! Caesar needs an arts 'n' craft class from Preston ... he'd have to drive to Louisville to take it, and that sounds about right.