The County of Carleton Law Association
held a town hall meeting at the Ottawa Courthouse Wednesday night to discuss alternative business structures and answer questions its members have regarding the differing models as part of their survey process in preparing a report to the Law Society of Upper Canada.
Members of Congress
hold town hall meetings in order to hear from their constituents and share information on what is going on in Washington.
Rep. Chris Collins, the Clarence Republican who vowed only weeks ago to
never hold a town hall meeting with his constituents, will appear at 9 p.m. Thursday on «The Messy Truth,» a CNN town hall series.
He said many of the members of
Congress holding town hall meetings during the current congressional recess are doing so largely because they've been pushed by student activists from Stoneman Douglas.
The new chair of the House Rules Committee came under attack for proposing a constitutionally questionable procedural maneuver to pass the controversial Affordable Care Act in 2010, refused to
hold town hall meetings during the height of the Tea Party movement, and compared Republicans to Nazis during a fight over abortion access in 2011.
Gillibrand, D - N.Y., has
not held a town hall meeting in Central New York since she took office in 2009, succeeding former Sen. Hillary Clinton.
At 6:30 p.m., NYC Office of Administrative Trials and
Hearings holds a town hall meeting to bring information about city - issued summonses and the hearing process to Queens residents, Community Bridge Home, 12050 Springfield Blvd., Queens.
At 6:30 p.m., Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon and state Sens. Velmanette Montgomery and Brian
Kavanagh hold a town hall meeting on the closing of Rikers Island, Belarusian Church, 401 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn.
Also at 6:30 p.m., Cown Heights residents and
leaders hold a town hall meeting against de Blasio's redevelopment plan for the Bedford - Union Armory after the mayor refused to accept an invitation to the town hall and scheduled his own event in Harlem, M.S. 61, 400 Empire Blvd., Brooklyn.
BATAVIA, N.Y. — Angry constituents say they want an audience with Rep. Chris Collins, who has never
held a town hall meeting since being elected to the position in 2012.
That group has taken walk outs to the next level,
by holding a town hall meeting, as well as meeting with central New York Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus).
Also at 6 p.m., NYC Public Advocate Leticia James, Manhattan Deputy Borough President Aldrin Bonilla and
others hold town hall meeting on the epidemic of mold infestations in New York City, Taino Towers Gym, 240 E. 123 St., Manhattan.
Also at 6 p.m., Sen. Jose Peralta and NYC Councilman Daniel
Dromm hold town hall meeting on public safety and uptick in gang - related violence in Jackson Heights, Jewish Center of Jackson Heights, 37 - 06 77th St., Queens.
All of the SNP's MPs and MSPs have been instructed to
hold town hall meetings as part of the campaign and grassroots members are also expected to muck in.
At 10 a.m., Vermont Sen. Bernie
Sanders holds a town hall meeting with special guests Josh Fox and Jim Hightower, Floyd L. Maines Veterans Memorial Arena, 1 Stuart St., Binghamton.
ALBANY — Fallout over last week's House vote on the American Health Care Act is continuing across upstate New York, with planned protests, new television ads and a Democratic
congressman holding a town hall meeting in the district of his Republican neighbor.
His views have developed through the years: In 1983, when the hallmark «A Nation at Risk» was released, Gingrich, a member of Congress at the time, traveled the
country holding town hall meetings.
A panel of education reformers, including StudentsFirst founder Michelle Rhee, is
holding a town hall meeting later today in Los Angeles, where they will take questions from an audience of area educators.
GPSN is
also holding a town hall meeting Oct. 22 at St. Mark's Banquet Hall, 14646 Sherman Way, Van Nuys, 91405 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to hear feedback from parents and the community on its program.
Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Eric Skrmetta will
hold a town hall meeting addressing utility companies at the Latter Branch of the New Orleans Public Library on Monday (Oct. 29).
He vowed he would be just the opposite,
holding town hall meetings at least once a month in various parts of the sprawling district, which connects several Buffalo suburbs to the western Rochester suburbs via the countryside in between.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Chris Collins, the Clarence Republican who vowed only weeks ago to
never hold a town hall meeting with his constituents, will appear at 9 p.m. Thursday on «The Messy Truth,» a CNN town hall series.