The Missing Half: Ensuring Fair Representation in Essex, Vermont.
A proposed merger of local governments in Essex, Vermont, raises questions with regard to how residents of both communities will be represented in a combined government. The Town of Essex and Village of Essex Junction are holding a discussion about their merging governments, a step taken by adjacen...
| Publicado en: | National Civic Review Vol. 95; no. 3; pp. 42 - 51 |
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Fall 2006
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