Think your vote won't count? In Conshohocken, Anthony Tucci and Robert O’Neill tied 117-117 for a council seat. The winner will be decided by a random drawing on Black Friday. Tucci, a general science teacher at Renaissance Academy in Phoenixville, says he has been sharing the democratic process with his students. Maybe this experience will inspire all of them to vote when they’re older.
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To those who still have campaign signs scattered around the roadways, almost a week after the election: clean up your act! Okay, it's not as bad as after a general election, but any eyesores at all are still too many. Politicians, push your supporters to go out and clean up after themselves. Especially those of you who claim to support open space!
This time of year, I'm always reminded of Ogden Nash's parody of Joyce Kilmer's "Trees" poem:
"I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all."
Admittedly, the lawn and road signs are mostly blocking grass and shrubbery, not trees, but the principal remains.

Posted by
Patricia Matson
Editor, The Phoenix