Tag: Planning

Tips for Planning a Backyard Wedding Ceremony

March 18, 2021

by Guest Contributor

In the middle of a global pandemic, more brides and grooms are opting for intimate weddings at home. For those who choose backyard weddings over fancy events in upscale restaurants and other venues, there are ways to make your wedding feel more intimate and special at home. If you’re considering a backyard wedding and aren’t … Read more

Nashua: Public officials are required to perform due diligence before they commit public funds.

November 27, 2019November 27, 2019

by Op-Ed

As a professional project manager, I know what a Feasibility Study is supposed to accomplish. Look at defining requirements, research them, make recommendations, evaluate risk, and provide contingencies. Along the way, you look at costs, human resources, vendors, insurance, liabilities. Essentially, you uncover all the rocks and make sure you have done your due diligence. … Read more

Is Elizabeth Warren’s Strength her Biggest Weakness? And Can It take The Democrat Party Down with Her

December 11, 2019November 19, 2019

by Steve MacDonald

Even if you hate the New England Patriots, they do one thing well. Each week they focus on neutralizing their opponent’s biggest strength. Liz Warren thinks her biggest strength is planning. She has plans. But could it also be her biggest weakness?

Peterborough Sues Two Residents Over Zoning Amendment

September 4, 2019September 2, 2019

Back in May, voters in Peterborough headed to the polls for ballot session of Town Meeting, and faced a multitude of questions. The hot item on the agenda was zoning amendment 15, a petition article submitted by local residents to repeal two Traditional Neighborhood Overlay Zones. If this sounds complicated already, its because it is. … Read more

Notable Quote: Hayek On Collectivist Doctrine

September 26, 2018October 18, 2012

“…the paradox of all collectivist doctrine and its demand for ‘conscious’ control or ‘conscious’ planning is that they necessarily lead to the demand that the mind of some individual should rule supreme” – FA Hayek

Democrat Planning Prolongs The Return To Prosperity

September 26, 2018October 1, 2012

Strangers create innovation. Strangers discover new ways to solve problems. Vast swaths of strangers pursuing their own self interests enable other strangers pursuing their own self interest to achieve further success. I’m using the word strangers here to make the point that there is not any intentional cognizant collusion involved. This is how technology and innovation bursts occur; this is how every day advances occur; this is how traditions become traditions and how civilization evolves. Pretending that there’s a mighty apparatchik with the knowledge to do the same is folly, though the Democrats and the left continue to believe in this approach. (My hunch is that’s because they have no faith other than a Hegelian faith in the state, but that’s for another blog.)

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, working in a garage, pursuing their own goal, shaped innovation, birthed an industry, and changed the contours of human intellectual discovery. There wasn’t a Department of Personal Computers directing them.