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Thoughts from a Town Meeting

Posted by Richard Whitney on March 16, 2010 at 8:14am
Not having grown up in New England, I thought of town meeting as aquaint, antiquated system that should have gone the way of thedinosaurs. Perhaps if it had, I thought, something useful like oilcould be produced; nothing useful could come from a group of peoplesitting around listening to other people treat picayune matters as ifthey were truly earth-shattering. Or so I thought. I was horriblywrong.

Recent experiences from an old-fashioned town meeting can restore faith in government, people, and our system.

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