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…

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…

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 — 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. …

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…

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”. …

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…

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…

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: