Salon.com > Natural Resources Defense Council http://www.salon.com Mon, 20 May 2013 02:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Town board imposes gag order on residents concerned with fracking http://www.salon.com/2013/02/14/town_board_imposes_gag_order_on_residents_concerned_with_fracking_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/14/town_board_imposes_gag_order_on_residents_concerned_with_fracking_partner/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:32:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13200034 OnEarth During my 12-year career as a newspaper reporter, I spent thousands of hours sitting through city council meetings, zoning board hearings, property tax appeals, school board work sessions, and just about every other kind of attention-sapping municipal meeting you could possibly imagine. (It wasn’t all bad: I met my wife at one.) At these meetings, it wasn’t uncommon for the same topics to come up over and over again, frequently with the same people making the same points about the same issues that everyone in attendance has heard a million times before. (Think “Parks and Rec” without any laughs.) So I sympathize, perhaps more than I should, with elected officials and public servants who would like to find a way to make topics they’ve heard about and debated endlessly just … go ... away.

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