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.