TOWN-MEETINGS

Night of Two Town Meetings

riving south through Connecticut's Naugatuck River Valley brought back memories. My dad used to drive this road to and from work 30 years ago, when the river was actually more polluted but the circumstances were less complicated. On this night, a week after Thanksgiving, the fog seemed inseparable from the road. We were looking for Derby High School, site of our first town meeting. The high sch...

NIEHS reaches out with town meetings.

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Bioethics commissions: town meetings with a "blue, blue ribbon"

Modeling Interaction Effects in Polarization: Individual Media Influence and the Impact of Town Meetings

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Meetings reports