Yes democracy is a terrible form of government- it just happens to be
better than anything else
Our high tax bills are a product of a tiny population, 40% conservation
land and the desire to provide all the facilities of a much larger town
with much higher tax revenues.
I would be thrilled to
Thank you Leslie. I believe that is correct but I defer to those directly
involved to confirm the facts.
On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 4:08 PM Leslie Turek wrote:
> As I recall, that vote wasn't at a town meeting, it was through the voting
> process afterward. Where the people voting didn't approve
Let me remind all that the TM was packed for that vote, and the proponents for
funding could not reach a 2/3 majority…the outcome was hardly the outcome of
the work of a small number “vocal minority” at a Town Meeting where “a few
people showed up.”
There were suggestions that the Fire
As I recall, that vote wasn't at a town meeting, it was through the voting
process afterward. Where the people voting didn't approve of the design
that was being presented, and perhaps didn't fully understand the
implication that rejecting the design would also reject the state funding.
Leslie
And in Mandarin Chinese, Dick Bolt responded to An Wang. It was a
> memorable time in our lives.
>
> Joan
>
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 3:49 PM Adam M Hogue wrote:
>
>> Yes and there was the famous meeting where few people showed up and voted
>> down state funding for the school and cost us 60 plus
Yes and there was the famous meeting where few people showed up and voted down state funding for the school and cost us 60 plus million dollars because the vocal minority showed up. So we can thank our high tax bills on this horrible process.Adam M HogueCell: (978) 828-6184On Dec 19, 2023, at
Ah-thank you for filling in blanks and adding more nuance.
I hope others read this and add their memories too.
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Sara Mattes
> On Dec 19, 2023, at 11:06 PM, iearler...@verizon.net wrote:
>
> I was at that meeting. And after listening to Dr. Wang and others, the
> petition was amended
I was at that meeting. And after listening to Dr. Wang and others, the
petition was amended to accept the Peace Pole as a gift from the people of
Japan, rather than the government.
On Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 09:02:10 PM EST, Sara Mattes
wrote:
During some of those extended
During some of those extended debates, I sometimes learned a lot.
There was a famous meeting in the mid 1980s where the town was asked to accept
a “Peace Pole” form Japan.
It was a Citizens Petition that no one expected to be very controversial.
Who would/could be against a Peace Pole?
It was
