Meetings, even the best ones, are never a lot of fun—and they’re a lot worse when the person running them rambles, is ill-prepared or (God forbid) spits out a litany of jargon that makes everyone go ...

Putnam — Local officials are reexamining live-stream protocols for public meetings after the Board of Selectmen and Mayor fell victim to a racist and pornographic “Zoombombing” attack Monday night.

The pandemic’s arrival in early 2020 sent office workers home and pushed nearly every call online, mainly via the meeting app Zoom. Within months, many of us had wearied of needing to always be ...