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Article: Friction abounds as town meeting is reviewed
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- December 6, 2005
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The Patriot Ledger
After a particularly rancorous and plodding annual town meeting
last spring, Marshfield Town Moderator James Robinson appointed a
committee to examine ways to improve the conduct of the town's
legislative body.
Unfortunately, at recent meetings, the town meeting review
committee has appeared just as dysfunctional town meeting.
Still, those involved insist that the committee will make
constructive proposals at town meeting this spring.
"The last meeting was pretty wild, but I think the committee is
accomplishing a great deal of good," said Robinson, who serves as an
adviser to the committee at its meetings.
"To some degree, it is paralleling what's going on at town ...