Excerpts from Ed Shanahan’s recent article. For complete text click on the link below:
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Academy, Look Park, Lilly Library
Time to Introduce Democracy
In the Selection of Trustees
Who Govern Some City Institutions
By Edward Shanahan
Clearly what is behind the meltdown of a long list of community organizations and institutions is a fundamental lack of accountability.
Who should have known what and when and why did they not respond?
The depressing stories of the recent closing of the Academy of Music, on the heels of the public humiliation of the United Way of Hampshire County and following the long drawn-out death of the very important Hampshire Community Action Commission could not be more instructive.
But are we learning anything as a consequence of this accumulating wreckage and have we seen its end? I think not.
