Open Think Tank Topics

Questions February 8, 2009		Votes
1	Has the business paradigm gone too far? -- i.e. the bottom line is what counts?	7*
2	How do you feel about the current state of the local and national economy?	2
3	What "good things" might come from the economic recesssion?	8*
4	Look at all the lonely people. Where do they all come from? Where do they all belong?	4
5	How can citizens get factual information with so much flux in our media outlets?	6
6	Would safe driving campaign by the State of CT be of any value?	1
7	Do we need exams in our schools?	6
8	Healthy Food & Drink Health	1
9	Spiritual Evolution	4
10	Public Transportation within Guilford?	5
11	Afghanistan: What is our best strategy?	5
12	What is "Community" in terms of Guilford?	6

January 11, 2009 Suggested Topics for Discussion

• How can we increase public participation in Guilford town decision making? *
• What do you think of the digital evolution in all aspects of our lives;  online news vs. print, social networking, cellular phones vs. land lines? Are you prepared to use these devices?
• What role does dissent play in a society?
• How can we work to supply the country with more mass transit?
• What do we want democracy to mean?
• How should Connecticut go about regionalizing some services in order to achieve cost efficiencies?
• Are local newspapers serving the needs of the citizenry? If not, how could they improve?
• What are the pluses and minuses to society of a population with a long life span (80+ years,) versus a shore span, (55-65 years?)
• What will happen to Capitalism?
• Does the two party system work in the best interest of our community or in the interest of the parties?
• Why aren't we all, including the press, talking about population?*

December 14, 2008 Topics that were discussed

• Is society too fast paced and if so how can we slow it down?
• Genetics and the criminal justice system