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Rethinking Housing and Energy

Can power transmission lines between New Castle and Boothbay support a concentrated housing zone without using Non Wire Alternatives? — A few months ago, I saw this notice on the Town of Boothbay website:

Climate Change

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Rethinking Housing and Energy
Rethinking Housing and Energy
Climate Change

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Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?

Boothbay Selectmen impose six-month moratorium on solar farms. — I was profoundly struck by the fact that there is a story in the Boothbay Register about the Boothbay selectmen voting 5–0 to issue a moratorium on solar farms in response to the solar company questioning their permit fees. In other action, selectmen voted, 5–0, to impose a six-month moratorium…

Climate Change

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Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?
Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?
Climate Change

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To Be Fair, Zoning Ordinances Must Accommodate Small Entrepreneurs and Home Businesses

Worker in Residence Zoning is needed as a mitigating factor in the working class- ownership class divide — Andersen Design Vintage Prologue: The other day, I decided to go to Wiscasset to approach an antique dealer with whom I had an interesting conversation a few years ago and who seemed to have a sophisticated understanding of marketing. Since I no longer have a storefront or gallery space to…

Zoning

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To Be Fair, Zoning Ordinances Must Accommodate Small Entrepreneurs and Home Businesses
To Be Fair, Zoning Ordinances Must Accommodate Small Entrepreneurs and Home Businesses
Zoning

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Index of Stories by Mackenzie Andersen

Stories About Makers and Making- Mackenzie Andersen Index of Stories About the Designer Craftsmen Experience by Mackenzie Andersen Hand-making has traveled the way of an independent historical narrative balancing, nature, man, and technology, and…mackenziana.medium.com Thinking About Economic Development- Mackenzie Andersen Index of Economic Development Conceptual Thinking By Mackenzie Andersen mackenziana.medium.com

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Nonfiction

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About Me — Mackenzie Andersen

An Independent Journey — Since I have been on Medium since 2019, my distribution numbers have remained ridiculously low. Nonetheless I have gained several hundred followers. I am wondering how all those people can follow me if my story is only displayed five times, more or less. …

About Me

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About Me — Mackenzie Andersen
About Me — Mackenzie Andersen
About Me

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Sep 15

The Further Enshitification of PayPal vs The Great Resignation

Let’s Get Innovative & Create Workers-in-Residence Zoning! — PayPal’s new no backup funding policy is even shittier than that. Paypal also places limits on how much of our PayPal funds we can spend per day. This is the message PayPal sends after denying access to PayPal funds: “We understand the inconvenience of a transaction decline — and want…

Financialization

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The Further Enshitification of PayPal vs The Great Resignation
The Further Enshitification of PayPal vs The Great Resignation
Financialization

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Sep 8

Ruminating on Big Data, Outlier Data and Misapplied, Codified Newspeak

And a Flash Sale with a Special Discount on Andersen Design — The paper that I have been reviewing many times over during the last six months, uses the term “big data”. I said that the author needs to define the term at the outset and include some examples of how big data is different than anything that we have known before…

Housing

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Ruminating on Big Data, Outlier Data and Misapplied, Codified Newspeak
Ruminating on Big Data, Outlier Data and Misapplied, Codified Newspeak
Housing

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Aug 21

If a University Can Be a Business, Can a Business Be a School?

Added bonus-my manifesto on worker-in-residence zoning! — I have worked in my family business, Andersen Design, since before entering Kindergarten, the age at which Maine State Inc wants to start training the workforce for its new industrial corporation, The Maine Space Corporation. Andersen Design is a design and production enterprise that has been teaching STEAM skills on…

Education

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If a University Can Be a Business, Can a Business Be a School?
If a University Can Be a Business, Can a Business Be a School?
Education

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Aug 17

Is Revisionist History A Conspiracy?

I recently published a story about an upcoming referendum for the Boothbay Peninsula in Maine, titled “ A Referendum That Poses No Options to a $89 Million Dollar School Should Be Voted Down.” on July 30 2023. My article was posted on Facebook and then removed because the person who…

Media Criticism

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Is Revisionist History A Conspiracy?
Is Revisionist History A Conspiracy?
Media Criticism

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Aug 13

The Darkest Hour Heralds in The Dawn

The butterfly flaps its wings and interacts with distant things. — Notice to my Medium Followers and would-be followers. I am trying to figure out the math of how I can have over 600 followers but my typical views on Medium- which I interpret as distribution, look like this ever since I started publishing here in 2019:

Fundraising

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The Darkest Hour Heralds in The Dawn
The Darkest Hour Heralds in The Dawn
Fundraising

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