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A Step in the Wrong Direction
by Andrew Gottlieb | What I'm Thinking
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...
The Cape is Different
by Andrew Gottlieb | What I'm Thinking
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...
WBUR: ‘Never in our wildest dreams’: Mass. environmental projects stall amid federal funding confusion
by APCC | In the News
Photo Credit: Robin Lubbuck/WBUR A wetland restoration project in Harwich was supposed to begin this month; now it’s on hold. Also stalled: the rehab of a community garden in Chelsea, and a report for the Environmental Protection Agency about the effects of exposure...
Cape Cod Times: Federal money for 6 Cape Cod water quality projects still frozen after Trump order
by APCC | In the News
Photo Credit: Merrily Cassidy/Cape Cod Times Federal funding remains frozen for six water quality restoration projects on the Cape, despite challenges to President Donald Trump's executive order. Andrew Gottlieb, executive director of the Association to Preserve Cape...
It’s Still Happening
by Andrew Gottlieb | What I'm Thinking
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...
Poof
by Andrew Gottlieb | What I'm Thinking
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...
Future Forecast
by Andrew Gottlieb | What I'm Thinking
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...
WCAI: Mashpee River will be focus of multi-part restoration effort
by APCC | In the News
The Mashpee River will be the focus of a major restoration project. The Association to Preserve Cape Cod will use more than $2.5 million in grant funds from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to improve fish passage and reclaim a disused cranberry...
The Enterprise: APCC Receives Grant To Restore Mashpee River, Bolster Wampanoag Community
by APCC | In the News
Photo Credit: GENE M. MARCHAND/ENTERPRISE The Association to Preserve Cape Cod announced this week that it received a multi-million dollar grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to restore fish habitats and passages along the Mashpee...
Looking to Spring
by Andrew Gottlieb | What I'm Thinking
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...




