Soon after 8:00 on Saturday evening, my family followed the Decoste Family into the lobby at the Middle School to await the election results. I joked with Chuck and said, “Shouldn’t take too long, given the turnout.” He laughed, which I took as my invitation to add, “And I meant what I wrote in that […]

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Spring Town Meeting is not on Monday. This year, we’re holding it on Tuesday, and depending on “how things go,” Littletonians might be asked to come back on Wednesday night. I won’t be there. Either night. Wednesday is my 25th wedding anniversary, and Rob and I are going away in an hour, for a week—a […]

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All of my posts have largely been idea-centric: Poverty is fixable. Greed is wrong. Loyalties should mean something. If you are the sort of person who harbors animosity toward me and uses this as your reason for ignoring the fact that there is a way to significantly help the poor who live right here in […]

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The phrase “what if” embodies humanity’s most distinguishable trait: imagination. All human progress started with, essentially, those two words: “What if we rubbed these two sticks together?” “What if we got into this boat and went that way?” “What if we could make this widget smaller/faster/cheaper/virtual? The authors of the US Constitution, knowing that those […]

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I do not want to own/operate/be in charge of any retail business to sell recreational cannabis. Not anymore. That’s all changed. What I want now—what I’m running on—is the idea that Littleton can END LOCAL POVERTY by making a simple POLICY change in how Littleton (via its Select Board) selects which businesses receive the licenses […]

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