GMDers are a besieged lot, constantly dealing as we are with injury, heroic medical intervention, financial cataclysm, violent assaults and unpronounceable debilitating illness (you know who you are…). As such, when it’s time to turn over the keys, it depends a lot on who’s conscious and lucid at the moment.

It’s appropriate, then, that the new Publisher is a publishing team made up of my two co-founders (Jack McCullough and kestrel9000) and mataliandy, who is very nearly a co-founder, being that she started participating from a very early moment. This is the crew that will keep the lights on, as well as handle all the stalkers (nah, who am I kidding… they’ll still come after me). It’s a team with expertise in politics, technology, law, online media in two states, radio, and includes current or former Democratic County Chairs from two Vermont counties.

It’s a great team, and added with the other front pagers and contributing editors, they could very well take over the state. Better stay on their good side.

Thanks for the memories, folks. I’m off to renew some dog licenses and take some minutes. No doubt I’ll pop in for snotty comments or Star Trek quotes from time to time.