Is it enough for the Legislature to deem that what it does is constitutionally consistent- or should there be a higher standard? — Interlude at the beginning: Back in 2019 when I joined Medium, my friend, the algorithm, distributed many stories into my stream about how to be successful. Number one on the list was to publish every day if not two or three times a day, advice which I transformed into writing every day, and publishing…

A Look at Maine’s New Emergency Housing Act! — I have often noted in this newsletter that today our government is run by public-private-for-profit-nonprofit relationships as no more apparent than in An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Commission To Increase Housing Opportunities in Maine by Studying Zoning and Land Use Restrictions Nationally, Corporate ownership of single-family homes…

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…

The Rules of the Industrial Revolution that moved making from the home to the factory no longer apply. — I have been busy working on an application for the John Templeton Foundation. that grants a foundational level of support. Now that I am fiscally sponsored, I have discovered a foundation that I can apply for without being fiscally sponsored. I wish I had previously known that it is…

Creating an environment for innovation with institutional ownership of intellectual property rights — This week has been full of events, suddenly two old friends called whom I hadn’t been in contact for ages, on or about the same time as finally finding a fiscal sponsor for my projects, but most impactful of all is the death of my brother-in-law, David Dupree, a very…