Susan Clark
CommentatorSusan Clark is a facilitator, educator, and the co-author of "Slow Democracy: Rediscovering Community, Bringing Decision Making Back Home." She is also Town Moderator of Middlesex, Vermont.
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Like our physical bodies, our body politic needs regular exercise to stay healthy. So put on your workout gear for Town Meeting. More than 60 percent of鈥� -
Ninety school districts - about a quarter of Vermont鈥檚 communities - have proposed meeting Act 46鈥檚 goals through collaboration rather than formal鈥� -
A neighbor told me recently that his fifth-grade son was interested in Town Meeting. 鈥淗e wants to learn more about 鈥� what鈥檚 that 鈥榦rder鈥� thing?鈥� 鈥淩obert鈥檚鈥� -
One recent, wet morning, I shuffled into the meeting room. The coat rack held a cross-section of Vermont outerwear鈥攆ancier dress coats, parkas smeared鈥�
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In the wake of one of the most divisive elections in history, a lot of us have a wicked post-election hangover caused by the polarization bender we鈥檝e鈥�
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I鈥檓 old enough to remember America鈥檚 Bicentennial in 1976 鈥� but young enough to have been an impressionable pre-adolescent at the time. I was swept up in鈥�
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I love the Town Meeting Civil Invocation, because it speaks of civility.In this election year, there鈥檚 been an awful lot of yelling about building walls鈥�
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Act 46 asks questions about education quality, equity and cost. But unless the legislature repairs its flaws, its biggest impact may be on鈥�
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A well-known optical illusion shows two silhouetted faces in profile looking at each other. At first, most viewers just see the faces, then comes the鈥�
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In considering the school consolidation issue, we would do well to recall Paul Searls鈥� 2006 book 鈥淭wo Vermonts.鈥� While his study was about Vermont in the鈥�
