by Andrew Gottlieb | What I'm Thinking
Local elections are a good opportunity to assess what is important to the 10-12 percent of people who show up to vote in most local elections. The majority of registered voters defer decision making to the voting few. For better or worse, the voting minority speaks...
by Andrew Gottlieb | What I'm Thinking
Spring 2026 town meetings have demonstrated the validity of the premise behind APCC’s The Cape We Shape campaign: When given the chance to act, voters will support the preservation of critical natural resources. Thanks to work in the trenches by local activists and...
by Andrew Gottlieb | What I'm Thinking
Democracy is neither self-actuating nor is it self-sustaining. Governance requires ongoing interest, awareness of the issues of the day, and a willingness to make the effort to show up and participate. While events at the national level can often seem beyond the reach...
by Andrew Gottlieb | What I'm Thinking
Falmouth Town Meeting approved two transfers of town-owned land in the watershed of its drinking water reservoir to the care and custody of conservation commission. The two articles were the first supported by APCC under The Cape We Shape campaign and serve as an...
by Andrew Gottlieb | What I'm Thinking
This was written on a flight to see friends, family, and a concert (frequent readers can probably guess the show). High above the ground I find myself grateful for all the people who made systems, ones I don’t think about much and probably wouldn’t understand if I...
by Andrew Gottlieb | What I'm Thinking
Ninety percent of the Cape’s estuaries exhibit poor water quality resulting directly from excess nitrogen, mostly from septic wastewater disposal. Towns across the Cape are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on wastewater infrastructure with the goal of reducing...
