Opinion
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Opinion: Sudbury Voted. Beacon Hill Should Listen
The Legislature’s Election Laws Committee hears Sudbury’s recall bill Tuesday. The town already voted 474-394; the question is whether Beacon Hill listens.
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One Complaint Closed. Four Still Pending.
The Attorney General’s office has closed one of Nicole Burnard’s Open Meeting Law complaints against the Sudbury School Committee. It did not find that the Committee acted properly. It concluded that Burnard’s central allegations, that the school administration did not give the Committee the information it needed and the Chair kept important subjects off the…
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Opinion: Sudbury’s Special Town Meeting Was Democracy, Not Dysfunction
Nearly 1,000 residents packed a school gym on a Wednesday night to vote. The meeting was late, hot, and loud. Framing that as a breakdown in civility misses the story: it was civic engagement, not decay.