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- The Lease Lands of Cambridge
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- Voting Methods at Town Meeting
- The Caine Mutiny
- Legacy of the Four Freedoms
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- Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms
- Act 46 and Democracy
- Science vs. Philosophy
- Complementarity and Civility
- Copenhagen – the play
- Responses from Lucy and Zac
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- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Illusion of Explanatory Depth
- 2008 Financial Crisis: What can we learn?
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- Free Speech Pioneers
- Bennington Battle Day
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Penalty for filing a tax form late
Consider a thought experiment. Suppose that you have lived in my town of Cambridge, Vermont, for many years in a house you own. One year your property tax bill from the town includes a new item: “penalty for late filed … Continue reading
What is a quorum?
What is a quorum? That is a basic question for government boards, commissions and committees. There should be a simple answer to this question, but a recent experience proved otherwise. A few days ago we had a meeting of the … Continue reading
