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A Revealing Conversation

Waiting in the cashier line at the local hardware store the other day, I overheard the conversation between a customer and a store clerk. The customer wanted a lawn fertilizer to get an application down right away. In addition to failing to mention to the customer...

Who Are You Really?

I have been hearing a lot of new voices speaking passionately about the need to protect Cape’s groundwater and the integrity of the natural resources of Nantucket Sound. On the surface that’s great, as we need more people to speak up for the environment. That said, I...

Lights Out

With the modest and fairly typical nor’easter last week, many of us spent part of the day without utility power. Power outages were widely distributed across the region. Unless you were elderly, ill or reliant on home medical equipment, the outages were brief enough...

Don’t Change that Channel

Every other month, on the fourth Monday of the month, I trudge up to Plymouth to take my seat as a gubernatorial appointee on the Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel (NDCAP). The idea behind NDCAP, providing the public some insight into the decommissioning...

Plans Matter

The Cape Cod Commission has released a draft regional housing strategy and has invited the public to submit written comments on the plan by Monday, January 29th. The draft plan can be viewed at https://www.capecodcommission.org/our-work/regional-housing-strategy/....

Success at a Crossroad

It is inarguable that the funding made available to towns from the Cape and Islands Water Protection Fund (the Fund) has sparked long overdue investment in water quality restoration projects. The evidence is clear. Over $120 million has been awarded to eight Cape...

New Challenges

Each new year brings with it a combined sense of excitement and anxiety about what the future may hold. These competing forces are very much at the top of my mind as the calendar flipped to 2024. On the plus side, among other things, there is a great chance that 2024...

Firing on All Cylinders

Most of the work we do daily is profoundly local. APCC works with members, local officials and partnering organizations to bring about change and to improve our environment, essentially making our communities better places to live. It is not unusual that our efforts...

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