Power To The People's Veto

'An Act to Increase Opportunities for the Development or Preservation of Low-income Housing' has a very misleading title!

Painting by David Dipree is on view at Gallery 53 in Boothbay Harbor Maine

Welcome! I'm Mackenzie Andersen and this is my reader supported newsletter. I am narrating the very local story of culture war taking place on the Boothbay Peninsula in Maine, centering around such issues as the ownership class -working class divide and constitutional home rule versus the centralized economy. I have been independently studying the Maine statutes and the Maine Constitution and other historical documents, concentrating on the years since 1969, since 2007. I weave this long view into the contemporary political Peyton Place that is the Boothbay Peninsula today. It’s a local story but every local story has universality in our globalized world, sometimes change sometimes has to happen at the roots and in fact, it already is! You can subscribe by clicking on this handy little button:

I have been independently studying Maine State statutory law, as a lay person, particularly economic policy law, for many…