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A Step in the Wrong Direction

A Step in the Wrong Direction

For almost two decades, the Cape and the state have been building a set of financing tools that have broken the barriers to progress on wastewater management needed to improve water quality. The lynchpin of this wildly successful financing strategy is the State...

A Step in the Wrong Direction

The Cape is Different

The headline around the Healey administration's release of its housing plan is that Massachusetts needs to create almost a quarter million homes to address a chronic housing shortage. That’s a lot of housing. On its face, this is a call to build our way out of a...

A Step in the Wrong Direction

It’s Still Happening

Despite widespread news reports that would lead a reasonable person to conclude that frozen federal funds were flowing again, that is not the case. As of this writing, APCC remains unable to access the federal payment system to submit invoices for work legally...

A Step in the Wrong Direction

Poof

Imagine for a minute you award a contract to a general contractor promising to pay the GC to build your house. The GC submits a bill for work authorized by you and preformed to specification, but the bill is unpaid. The GC never hears from you, but reads on the...

A Step in the Wrong Direction

Future Forecast

I don’t know what the future holds; no one does. How else can you explain people pinning their hopes on the Minnesota Vikings (playoff losers to the Rams)? That said, we all take and consider the information we have and run it through our own biased view of the world...

A Step in the Wrong Direction

Looking to Spring

While it finally feels like winter, my mind has gone to spring, but not just because spring brings with it longer days. On Cape Cod, spring is also the heart of the town political season. The seeds for what we want to see from our towns need to be planted now in order...