Virginia Connection Newspapers (Alexandria, VA) While serving as vice president of the United States from 1797 to 1801, Thomas Jefferson wrote down rules of parliamentary procedure as remembered from his days studying parliamentary rules while a student at William and...
New Castle News (New Castle, PA) An early start and a lack of public input at the New Castle Planning Commission’s April 1 meeting apparently left the panel in violation of the Pennsylvania’s Sunshine Act . . . . . . Commission member Jeff Fandozzi asks if chairman J....
The Tallahassee Democrat ( Tallahassee, FL ) I heard about a nonprofit board meeting that sounded too unbelievable to be true and not in a good way. The meeting was scheduled for 6 p.m. but before the chair called the meeting to order everyone sat around the table...
Dover, NH Children are often taught there are two answers to certain questions: yes or no. That’s not the case for elected officials, who have the ability to abstain from a vote on any given topic for any number of reasons. Often, the reason for an abstention vote is...
The Block Island Times ( Block Island, RI ) A 2-0 vote by the New Shoreham School Committee will apparently end Marsha Gutierrez’s career at the Block Island School without health benefits in her retirement package, and, according to her attorney, Gutierrez is...
