Local currency has never been as needed as it is today. With the value of the dollar in ongoing decline against other currencies; with fuel prices soaring and the U.S. economy languishing; with the crippling indebtedness of the citizenry finally making headlines; with the relocalization of trade- and consumption-patterns becoming priority items in the face of human-induced climate disruption – all of these factors point toward a more popularly receptive atmosphere for alternative, local systems of payment and trade like Madison Hours.

I look forward to another term on the board in order to further proselytize local currency, to help engineer its spread within the business community, to insure that it remains true to its grassroots base, and to continue to assist other communities in starting and maintaining systems of their own.