| October 28, 2012 | Contact | Calendar | The Mix | Archives |
After seven months of town office committee work, we finally got to put our proposal up to a vote at a special town meeting.
Both parts of the recommendation, site (old high school lot after demolition) and price ($250K for entire project) passed unanimously.
Now the selectmen and the school superintendent will continue negotiations to acquire the lot. I will attend the selectmen's meeting and be sure an informational update is always on the agenda. Other than that I am glad to step away after so many months of weekly meetings. A couple of people have asked me if I will run for selectman again. Don't know about that yet, but I have recently bought two plaid flannel shirts, and that could be a subliminal message to myself.
In addition to the liberal blogs I am reading much too often as election day approaches, I've added Red State and Fox News. Very different worlds. What is newsworthy in one (the security failure in Benghazi) is not mentioned in the other. What is offensive to one side (the Lena Dunham ad) is considered harmless in the other. Most interesting is that each side has its own polling results and insults the other's pollsters. And I thought data was data. I see a few friends who post pro-Romney links on Facebook and I would love to inquire in a friendly way how they think about it all. But there is no possibility of discussion at this point; everyone is locked down in their chosen reality. There is no Metadata Cafe where we could meet outside of our respective political mindsets. There is no front porch in Alpha-Centauri where we could sit and look at ourselves from a distance. |
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