Responses to last week’s Tele-Talk question — “To what do you attribute the lack of public engagement at recent town meetings?” — blamed a lack of engagement on a range of concerns from Conway board members, interest groups and meeting times to meeting structure and a sense that arguments may fall on deaf ears. The full selection of responses is printed here.
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