Category Archives: Posts

Money versus votes

I wonder how many of our votes the Koch brothers and friends could buy directly, by offering, say, $1000 paid directly to voters for switching our votes in the midterm election? What would it take? $100? Maybe they don’t have to spend that much. I must say I find it depressing news that we are […]

May 7, 2014 – 8:26 am | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Eastham: electronic voting will mean the loss of the essence of town meeting

At their May 5 town meeting, Eastham citizens will vote whether to be the first on the block to replace traditional voting by voice or raised hands with electronic voting. The idea is that it will shorten meetings, improve accuracy and ensure privacy. In a newspaper story on the proposal a former moderator from Westboro, […]

May 2, 2014 – 1:46 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

The Sterling racism story is a cause for celebration

Donald Sterling, owner of the L.A. Clippers basketball team, has been banned for life for ugly racist sentiments. In this bad news/good news story, the good trumps the bad. Yes, shocking, overt racism at that level. But the reaction to it is, at least for anyone who was conscious during the 1960s and earlier, a […]

May 1, 2014 – 1:19 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged | Comments (0)

Article 38: the sweet logic of passive solar

Monday night Wellfleet has a chance to do a sensible thing, vote for article 38 on the town meeting warrant, the Stretch Code. It speeds up the pace at which the building code is moving toward making houses more energy efficient. There has been an exemplary effort to Solarize Wellfleet, spearheaded by the Wellfleet Energy […]

April 27, 2014 – 8:23 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged , | Comments (0)

NCAA unions: An end to the hypocrisy

I was in fan heaven a couple of weeks ago at the outcome of the NCAA basketball tournaments, the statistically miraculous double national championship for the University of Connecticut. I didn’t go to UConn, didn’t teach there, but I lived in Hartford when they began their rise to national fame in the 1980s, and to […]

April 24, 2014 – 1:20 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Cape Cod Commission and the battle of Cape Cod

To borrow from a union song Pete Seeger used to sing, in the battle of Cape Cod, which side are you on? The battle of Cape Cod. It’s going on and we’re all in it, like it or not.   The perennially embattled Cape Cod Commission makes a game attempt in its mission statement to […]

April 21, 2014 – 3:45 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Pilgrim 12 trial—Judge Cannone, how about a clue?

There’s no question who won and who lost in the recent Pilgrim12 trespassing trial. The defendants got a tap-on-the-wrist sentence, but it was pretty obvious, as reported in news stories, Pilgrim and the NRC were on trial—and found guilty. As Diane Turco, Cape Downwinders co-founder and a defendant said, “The verdict doesn’t matter; the truth […]

April 17, 2014 – 12:35 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged | Comments (0)

Senator Warren, where are you now that we need you?

Dear Senator Warren: Your Cape and Islands supporters love the work you are doing in DC levelling the playing field with corporations. But we are disappointed that you haven’t been stronger on the burning issue here, the closing down of Pilgrim nuclear power plant. We assume you are aware that all the towns on Cape […]

April 12, 2014 – 1:01 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Oil spills and nuclear meltdowns are not accidents

On the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, along with a review of the still ongoing longterm effects, it was asked: what did we learn from this accident? Not enough, apparently. Spills continue; the huge 2010 BP spill is still fresh in mind. At what point do you begin to see these catastrophes […]

April 8, 2014 – 11:57 am | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Another company in contempt–Gov. Patrick’s letter to the NRC

Numerous Cape Codders went to the trouble of bussing to Boston recently to urge Gov. Patrick to write a letter to the NRC requesting the closing of Pilgrim nuclear power plant. The Governor complied and sent that letter. The response of Entergy, the company that owns the plant: essentially, yadda yadda yadda. Whatever. Water off […]

March 29, 2014 – 3:43 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged | Comments (0)