Mark Latham, a semi-retired economist working on democratic media reform, recently launched a "Vancouver Voters' Guide Blogging contest." His goal, he says, is to encourage media (especially bloggers) to create helpful guides to Vancouver municipal issues and electoral candidates. Vancouverites are invited to vote on an on-line ranking of blogs. To start it off, he browsed the web and found some media/blogs that covered Vancouver issues. Recently, he found The Vancouver Observer and decided to include it. If you have a moment and can go to the site right now, and vote for The Vancouver Observer, it will help VO get its political writing and commentary further into the city mind-stream.