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Thank you to Chris Schaffner (Opinion, April 14) for his thoughtfulness and courage in starting a discussion on replacing Town Meeting with a more practical, modern and representative mechanism. This town likes

The Town Government Committee of the League of Women Voters of Concord-Carlisle held two sessions reviewing the more complicated or “contentious”—simply meaning the articles that evoked considerable discussion—Warrant Articles as they emerged

In the Jim Crow South, many methods were used to disenfranchise voters. Poll taxes, literacy tests, etc. served to preserve minority rule. Here in Concord we have an equally effective way to

The answers of the two candidates for select persons to the question of how to improve citizen participation in Town Meeting exposes an important problem in improving the function of town government:

I am writing with feedback on the article in The Concord Bridge that covers the vote at Town Meeting about the construction of the new middle school titled “7.2 million approved by