Tag: democracy

The Brattleboro Selectboard prepares to present information about next year’s town budget to a meeting of excited and concerned citizens.

Normally, this meeting wouldn’t happen: the budget was already passed at our annual Town Meeting a few weeks ago. But, a grumpy minority didn’t like the amount being spent on our planned police/fire department renovation and submitted a petition to call a referendum and so now we have to have a vote.

So, is this Democracy In Action, or is it a case of pathological activism? We’ll start to find out over the next couple of hours.