Out with the newspeak! Let’s get real! — Why the Gaslighting? The idea that the housing shortage in Maine or the USA is caused by housing underproduction is a well-crafted narrative but historical data shows that the cause of the housing shortage is not the underproduction of housing needed for residential living and so one must ask why and how this…

A comprehensive approach to Maine’s housing shortage study would not have relegated the study of short-term rentals to an afterthought. — GrowSmart Maine’s executive director Nancy Smith is a registered lobbyist, Since 2016 GrowSmart Maine has taken an about-turn from advocating roots-up development to advocating for top-down centrally-controlled management GrowSmart commits up to 20% of its resources to communicating directly with the Legislature and the Governor and her staff. The Grow…

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

An Independent Journey — This Profile is an enhanced version of my Remote Working Profile sponsored on Data Driven Investor Cultural Background I was raised in a business in a home, established in 1952 on the coast of Maine. as a complete product development system from design to marketplace. Production started with bags of raw materials…

Joe Biden shows us what Bob Dylan meant when he said “He not busy being born is busy dying” — According to his political enemies, Biden is a man suffering from dementia. No Way Hose! Biden is a man who is still busy being born and at his age, being born means an advanced stage of development drawing upon years of political experience capable of weaving converging threads together as…

Asking the questions that no one wants to answer — A Long Introduction to the latest chapter in the continuing saga of how I created a voice, where once I had none in my rural local community. I started blogging and researching my State legislative policies years ago because I saw that only one point of view was represented by…

Rome Maine fights for its independence — Small Towns in Maine are in need of a strong Home Rule defense against the encroaching public-private corporate state that has been amassing centralized power ever since 1976 when the Legislature declared that centrally managing the economy is an essential government function seven years after the Home Rule Amendment was…

Getting the history of Midcentury Design right! Here’s my chance! — Andersen Design is a midcentury American ceramic designer-craftsmen studio production started in 1952 on Southport Island Maine by my parents Weston and Brenda Andersen. Although there exists a large body of work of original glazes bodies and form designs, including functional forms and wildlife sculpture, you will not find Andersen…

The grassroots fertilizes the mainstream but needs its independence! — I recovered boxes from storage filled with the earliest midcentury examples of my parent’s work from the forties and fifties. It is my inheritance to ensure that these works are properly preserved, somewhere and so I was overcome by the pressing importance of finding a space, but today I am…