Committee Supports Virtual Meetings

The committee established to study whether virtual meetings should be authorized is recommending that remote participation by board members should be allowed, with the question of public access to those meetings being left to local boards, according to a draft report that the panel will be taking up on Oct. 20.

Op-Ed: DOT Spraying Roundup Along State Roads

Your agency is spraying Roundup on Knotweed patches along state roads. I was told by a DOT employee that DOT is not required to notify towns or landowners about this spraying. This is legally correct but not morally right.

Panel Would Dial Back Law Enforcement Dominance

Members of the commission charged with developing recommendations on handling police misconduct complaints praised the hard work that the director of Police Standards and Training had put into a draft legislative proposal, but some objected to the dominance by law enforcement personnel in deciding on the outcomes.