Showing posts with label it could always be worse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label it could always be worse. Show all posts
Monday, August 31, 2015

Town Meeting Follies. The New Hampshire View (2): Quaint Characters

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As noted in the previous post , a chance historic preservation and genealogy conversation on Twitter some years ago about antiquated New Eng...

Town Meeting Follies. The New Hampshire View (1): "I Hate Town Meeting"

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Given that we have launched into the great debate over the proper form of local government, I am hauling pertinent past posts (or parts of t...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

Town Meeting: "We’ve been at this since 1780, we kind of have it down by now"

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Or in our case: 1759. (Well, 1735, if you date the history of Amherst Town Meeting from the time when this was simply the Third District of ...
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

From the Vaults: Amherst Town Meeting: The View from 2011 (April 1--but no joke)

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From the Vaults As I mentioned in the previous post , I thought I would resurrect a few older pieces in order to provide some perspective...

Town Meeting: Pinnacle of Participatory Politics--or The Terror of Tiny Towns?

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the light at the end of the tunnel--or just someone's headlights? Yes, we made it again, as the sign at the High Horse brewery co...
Monday, December 24, 2012

Why the lack of recent posts: I needed this like a hole in the head

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I must apologize for the recent lack of communication here: to be clear, for my sake, rather than yours (after all, it's not as if I ima...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Weird Laws? Compared With What?

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Fall Town Meeting is just over a month away. Although we here in Amherst love to complain about the complexities of our laws and politica...
Monday, October 8, 2012

Western Massachusetts Listmania

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Western Massachusetts towns and organizations recently made several lists, not all of which you'd want to be on. To begin with an...
Sunday, October 7, 2012

As the Way of Youth Is? Boorish Student Behavior Through the Lens of History

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Historical Student Life: The Devil and Drink detail from "Faust and Mephistopheles in the Tavern" (London: Boosey and Sons,...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

9-11 2012 in Amherst: We Do Mark and Mourn the Anniversary

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As I recently noted, controversy over the commemoration of the 9-11 terrorist attacks in Amherst seems to crop up almost every year in ...

9-11 and Amherst: Why Do They Hate Us? (part 2)

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Why do they hate us? (douchebags, turds, socialists, Muslims, libtards, Democrats)   Even though, as the previous post explained ...
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9-11 and Amherst: Why Do They Hate Us? (part 1)

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Amherst, September 10 Let's just get a couple of misconceptions out of the way.  Contrary to what has been reported in the press and w...