The End of the Community Bulletin Board?

Today, I made the rounds of the local supermarkets to put hangers advertising Thursday's meeting.

Only half of the half-dozen or so stores I visited had community boards. I remember when they were a standard feature at every large food market.

One even had a "no distribution of literature" notice (having suffered through the Hari Krishna years at airports, I can actually understand that impulse).

So I hung notices at several stores and prevailed on some small shopkeepers that I've known for years to do accept some hangers.

One of them told me that, in his capacity of helping the publicize community concerts, he's put flyers up in some locations only to have them taken down because they were not "personal" (that is, they were not advertisements for rooms to rent, landscaping services, "for sale" items, and the like), but rather "community."

We're going to keep organizing, a little bit at a time.

The election may be over, but politics goes on. And, given all the stuff that's happening right now, staying aware and learning about the issues becomes more and more important.