My picks this week involve Eleanor Hadley, explaining the vote, and young transit riders.
Our Sandra Thomas covered park board for nearly a decade and a half, and a perennial personality in that beat was the late Eleanor Hadley, a park board observer and critic who died last week at age 93. Thomas penned a charming portrait of the passionate, irascible and sometimes offensive Hadley. Summing it up: they don't make them like the used to.
Confused by the whole transit tax plebiscite thing and how you can vote? Courier contributor Jenny Peng has written this helpful explainer. Now you have no excuse not to vote. Peng, by the way, has been nominated for an Emerge Media Award for her story on ethnic men shamed out of nursing by cultural and family pressure.
Speaking of the transit tax plebiscite, recent polls and anecdotal evidence suggests the older you are, the more likely you are to vote no. But some young people are also leaning to the no side, which led columnist Jessica Barrett to wonder what they're thinking. Metro Vancouverites in their 20s and 30s, she argues, have the most to lose if the plebiscite fails.
