Not good morning. But morning.

This is the first of what I hope will be a regular way to chronicle our tumultuous times. Not just with the chaos caused by Trump but with our own conservative-led NIMBY movement in our diverse town of 28,374 on Boston’s southern border.

I thought 1-25-25 was a good day to start these regular blog posts. Five days after the beginning of Trump part two and five days before the first meeting of the Milton Town Farm review committee which is charged with making a recommendation for the last four acres of one of New England’s few surviving poor farms.

We will be writing a lot about both, I suspect, as well as our town’s ongoing efforts to break the law, notably the MBTA Communities Act. Writing helps me process and make sense of what often is hard to understand.

My writing career began in college when I penned op-ed articles for our campus paper, the Fairfield Mirror. Since then, I’ve written countless grant proposals and was even second or third author on a couple of academic papers. Heck, I even wrote a chapter in a book called Organizing Access To Capital: Advocacy And The Democratization. This won’t be Heather Cox Richardson writing every day. I’m not that smart nor prolific. But there is too much going on. I need to capture this in real time as outrage turns to action and action yields progress. Onward.