What If Ideas Mattered, Littleton?

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 […]

Those Who Ask “What If . . . “

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 […]

For Clarity, Littleton

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 […]

Not Registered to Vote, Littleton?

Last month, in an effort to spread the news on how Littleton could END LOCAL POVERTY by changing local policy, I went to the “40B” apartments at Village Green (on the Acton line) to ask for signatures from strangers. The majority of the people who signed my nomination papers live here: The drone’s-eye view of […]

I Misspoke, Littleton

Last week, during Candidates’ Night, I said something that was both inaccurate and misleading. Click HERE and watch for 12 seconds (until I say, “Thank you.”) It’s in my opening statement: First off, I want to make clear that I do not believe that the ONLY people who care about Littletonians living in poverty were […]

Quite a Contrast, Littleton

Yesterday afternoon, I watched the replay of Candidates’ Night. Objectively, the two candidates vying for the one open seat on the Select Board have different messages and different priorities. If you take the time to watch, you’ll see. Click HERE for Chuck’s opening statement, followed by mine, and thereafter Chuck and I take questions before […]

What if It Worked, Littleton?

If the profit from one cannabis shop is about a million bucks and when the other one opens, another million—plus the profits from the many, many licenses to sell alcohol, which probably amount to, I don’t know, eight million, to get us to a nice round ten million, then yes, Littleton, we can end local […]

A Failure to Hear is not Evidence of a Failure to Explain, Littleton

For those of you who remain uninformed about my resignation from the Board of Selectmen a decade ago, you can click HERE to listen to the statement I recorded seven months ago in response to demands that I “explain myself” in the wake of unsuccessful efforts to disqualify my appointment to the Finance Committee. One […]

A Change in Tone, Littleton

You may have noticed, those of you who have been reading these posts, that on March 25th, they took a decidedly different tone. That’s because, on March 25th, I handed in nomination papers, and my name would be placed on the May 11th ballot. On March 25th, I became a candidate for local office. On […]

April 22nd: a Big Day, Littleton (Part II)

Yesterday the United States Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the city of Grants Pass, Oregon violates the Eight Amendment’s prohibition against “cruel and unusual punishment” by assessing a fine (a “punishment” in the form of a $295.00/night fine) to people who sleep in public places. These “law-breakers” are fellow Americans who have no home. […]

Jenna Brownson

upmarket novelist obsessed with loyalty and its inevitable betrayal