{"id":5733,"date":"2013-03-06T00:14:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T04:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=5733"},"modified":"2013-03-06T00:14:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T04:14:25","slug":"tuesday-night-town-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/03\/06\/tuesday-night-town-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday night – town meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first tuesday of march is sacred here in Vermont. Its the day that most Vermont towns hold their town meetings. Its when most of the town gets together to debate.. And sometimes even agree on the issues facing the town<\/p>\n

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.Sometimes those are things as concrete as concrete.. Or gravel..<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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And some times those are things like banning nukes… This year i don't think we had that much esoteric.. But then again, i wasn't listening that closely, i go for the community. There are folks there that i only see at town meeting,, as i looked around today i saw many of the same folks id been seeing on that same day having basically the same conversations for 31 years… Pretty amazing.. No ? Its democracy at its most basic and perfect.<\/p>\n

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Theres the select board<\/div>\n
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My buddy clint as moderator (really excellent job !!!)$<\/div>\n
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Questions from the crowd<\/p>\n

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Boy…lots of gray hair these days !<\/div>\n
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As i sat listening i was thumbing through the report.. I found an old picture of<\/p>\n

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The town bicentennial picture at the round church. There hidden in the picture was<\/p>\n

A picture of diane max, sam and i… <\/p>\n

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A nice reminder of our deep connection to this place…<\/p>\n

Nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n

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