Either the chair of the Cape Elizabeth Housing Diversity Study Committee is conflicted about the only real affordable housing proposal on the table and should not vote on it, or he is not. Enough cloak and dagger. Which is it?
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Detox is in these days. You are cordially invited. The good people of Maine deserve clean air and honorable leaders.
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Gandalf the Gray of Maine journalism returns as Gandalf the White to save us and Middle Earth
Read More“If the limit never approaches anything, the limit does not exist” is a quote from the iconic coming-of-age movie Mean Girls, and one way to state succinctly the case for protecting “they” as a plural all-inclusive pronoun of the English Language. If you haven’t seen Mean Girls, think The Catcher in the Rye or any other story about an individual’s journey from the outside looking in to a place of belonging.
Read MoreWhy did Dan wait so long to privately accuse me of hate speech? Because he can’t win the argument about the local housing referendum on the merits in my opinion, but others could argue it’s because he inadvertently is a sexist pig.
Let me explain.
Read MoreThe world mourns the death of Queen Elizabeth II but her legacy lives on as a tome on what to do with great privilege when you have it.
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Swallowing an “affordable housing project” with a public price tag topping $13.5 million plus a TIF is like taking a malaria drug to treat COVID. Instead of paying a corporation to build, own and manage low-income housing projects for the benefit of shareholders, the public is better served investing in housing that serves the public! That’s the message sent from Cape Elizabeth to Augusta that shines through LD 2003, Maine’s exciting new housing reform law.
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Despite news reports and gossip about NIMBYism in our pretty little town, families including low-income families are getting ahead in Cape Elizabeth. That’s why everyone wants to live here.
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It is our right as citizens to decide where, what kind, and for whom publicly subsidized housing should be developed, not the planners, consultants and unelected bureaucrats who don’t live here, vote or pay taxes. If we want to build affordable housing for families and the local workforce, we can and we should because spending public funds on raising healthy kids and supporting our local economy is a good investment.
Read MoreMothers, guns and mayhem. Enough is enough.
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