From my first shift on Oct. 19 to the last on Election Day, my behind-the-headlines perspective was different. Here’s a diary of my (short) life as a citizen in the front row of a historic election.
The Routt County Courthouse is 912 miles away from 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, the place where George Floyd was killed. Yet despite its distance from that scene and its relative lack of racial diversity, it was one of hundreds of cities, big and small, that sprang into action in the wake of George Floyd’s death.