Its better to have eyes wide open now than to be unprepared for what is on the horizon — A few days ago on a zoom meeting, I said to a man who lives on an island in Maine, that 2023 was the year climate change hit Antarctica and he laughed as though the South Pole was too distant a region to affect him. Days later MSNBC reported about…

revealing that nothing has changed in politics, merely evolved! — Recently I received a request for a donation from the organization that I had approached for a donation for my fiscally sponsored project, only to be told to apply for public charity instead, an inappropriate and unsupportive response to request for a tax-deductible donation. As an individual who is fiscally…

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 — Mackenzie Andersen is a sponsored artist with The Performance Zone Inc (dba The Field), a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization serving the performing arts community. Contributions to The Field earmarked for Mackenzie Andersen are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. For more information about The Field, or for our national…

Ruling attempts to allow anyone anywhere to circulate petitions to initiate or vete Maine laws. — I was intending to write more on this, but too much to do and the time before November 7 is short. Question 7 is a really important issue getting scarcely any attention. This is the letter I wrote to the Boothbay Register: I became aware of Question 7 only recently…

The importance of language in the law seems underrated these days — The internet is changing in big ways these days. Financialization, where fees are charged every which way, particularly by banks, for every sort of transaction, extracts wealth from the general populous without providing a viable service or product. In this day of instant transactions, on the rise is the three-day…

Preserve the Unique Reality of our rural peninsula and its midcentury school, a reminder of an era when the distribution of wealth took the form of a bell curve! — A local story about the Boothbay Peninsula in Maine As we approach November 5 there are many letters in the Boothbay Register, for or against two referendum votes that represent a dual expansion of power wielded by the State. One is for the takeover by the state of privately owned utility companies. This is a reoccurring referendum. Proponents seem…

Examining the interactive Interface between the technological, psychological, and manifest reality. Which is more automated? — Event #1 Hidden Manipulation In my recent post, I wrote that “ a bill search and a statute search for Dirigo Business Incentive Program, and also An Act to Modernize Maine’s Business Incentive Programs, came up empty. ” Later I discovered that when I copied and pasted the name of the act from the…

Don’t ask! — The Sponsors of the Bill to enact the Maine Space Corporation Sponsored By:Senator Matthea DAUGHTRY of Cumberland Arts background Cosponsored By:Senator Catherine BREEN of Cumberland Arts Background Senator Scott CYRWAY of Kennebec Sherrif Representative Janice DODGE of Belfast- Music Teacher, Maine Education Association’s Government Relations Committee Speaker Ryan FECTEAU of Biddeford Political Organizing Background, Speaker of the House Senator Craig HICKMAN of Kennebec Organic Farmer Representative…