Don’t ask me why, but I’m spending my leisure time these days reading Robert Putnam’s “Bowling Alone,” (yes, I know, several years late) a thoughtful and heavily documented analysis of the decline of civic engagement in American society since the 1950s. As we’ve become a more individualistic society, Putnam argues, our participation in political parties [...]
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The city’s septuagenarian political party, the Non-Partisan Association, will be meeting today to choose a new board of directors — one that will have the difficult task of figuring out where the party, which suffered its second disastrous defeat in six years, will go. Charlie Smith has some perceptive analysis of the NPA’s potential winning [...]
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Boy, I thought everyone would be out slogging through the snow to get their Christmas shopping done the last few days, but apparently pondering the future of the city’s Non-Partisan Association took precedence. Anyway, check out the comments under my last post, where some former directors like Paul Barbeau and Alex Tsakumis are weighing in. [...]
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