Roll Over Dominant Culture! Let’s Get Metaphysical!

See through the wool into other probabilities!

Clouds Over The Horizon by Susan Mackenzie Andersen

We are coming up on a repeat local referendum of the one we had a few months ago, minus the high school project. Proponents divided the last vote into two parts after opposition was vocalized, hoping to save the middle school but both parts of the project were voted down.

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Now the town leaders are giving us a new referendum on the middle school which is almost the same as the previous referendum, sending the message that the school boards don’t want to listen to the voters, raising the question, what powers do they serve?

The school project started as a repair, maintenance, and security mission before anonymous donors, led by Paul Coulombe, intervened. Mr. Coulombe arrived, in a town that had barely changed since mid-century with a mission to transform it into an extended country club, bulldozing building after building into the ground, and replacing them with contemporary McMuffin-style architecture, neither objectionable nor distinguishable.

After that, only the donor’s plan was considered, which was to save money on repairs by demolishing the midcentury building and constructing a new building. Repairs cost a lot less that way, they reasoned, but…