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The People’s Voice

August 14th, 2009

The question of what is proper etiquette when attending “town hall” meetings has become one of our most vexing questions. Evidently other, more demanding matters are laid aside until we can get everyone’s “comfort zone” tuned in. During my childhood years in rural Alabama I attended many Grange meetings, which were basically the town hall […]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: Obama, Specter, town hall
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Falmouth Town Hall Meeting

August 14th, 2009

By Dr. Joe Vitale I live on Cape Cod, and yesterday I went to a town hall meeting in Falmouth. I heard about the meeting about an hour before it was scheduled. It seemed to me that the meeting was not advertised very well so that the attendance would be quite small. They were successful […]

Articles written by Guest Author
Tags: health care, John Kerry, town hall
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Specter Hectored at Town Hall

August 12th, 2009

It was an unhappy Arlen Specter who left the town-hall-style meeting in Lebanon, Pennsylvania yesterday. He did all he could to keep the meeting orderly: he had his staff rent a small auditorium at the Harrisburg Area Community College that seated 250 people, but over 1,000 showed up; he limited the questioners to the first […]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: health care, Specter, town hall
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