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New Updates on The Edge HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research Website PD&R’s online magazine,  The Edge, provides you with a snapshot view of our newly released research, periodicals, publications, news, and commentaries on housing and urban development issues. Stay informed on current topics and check back frequently, as our content is routinely updated. In this week’s message, Peter Kahn introduces himself as the new associate deputy assistant secretary for PD&R. Mr. Kahn has worked in PD&R's Office of Economic Affairs for over 15 years, where he focused on HUD’s ...

Opinion/Letter: Opinion shopping In Ogunquit? By Peter Kahn Did the Ogunquit Select Board Chair go opinion shopping? You decide. Here are the facts. At the April 13 Select Board meeting, the Town Attorney, when asked to clarify the definition of “majority” as it is used in the Ogunquit Charter stated “…when the Charter talks about a majority, it talks about a majority of those voting.” When asked, the Town Clerk affirmed, “Yes, a majority of the votes cast.” Further into the meeting, Counsel reaffirmed her opinion: “You have to have more than the other person, but you also...

Portsmouth Herald OGUNQUIT, Maine — Bob Whitelaw thought he'd be about a month into his first term on the town's Select Board by now, having been declared the winner of the March 30 special election and sworn in. After taking part in just two meetings as a member, however, Whitelaw was booted from the board last week. A group of townspeople had pointed out that too few votes were cast in the special election to meet the town charter's definition of a quorum, and Town Clerk Chris Murphy agreed. "While I was aware of the quorum provision, it was my understanding that it applied to referendum...

Search for: stdClass Object ( [ID] => 18987 [post_author] => 23 [post_date] => 2018-06-15 15:29:11 [post_date_gmt] => 2018-06-15 15:29:11 [post_content] => Ellora Sutton is an MA student from Hampshire. She has won the Mslexia Poetry Competition, the Artlyst Art to Poetry Award, and the Pre-Raphaelite Society Poetry Competition. She tweets @ellora_sutton. Ellora is the first-prize winner of the Carol Ann Duffy challenge on Young Poets Network, judged by Mari Hughes-Edwards, and celebrating Duffy's legacy as Poet Laureate. She is also the first-prize winner of Bailey Bla...

Portsmouth Herald OGUNQUIT, Maine — An overwhelming majority of voters who took part in last month's special election to fill a short-term vacancy on the town Select Board picked the one and only candidate on the ballot. Now the outcome of that uncontested race has been called into question because so few votes were cast. A group of townspeople argued Tuesday that both the special election and subsequent actions by the Select Board must be set aside. "We apologize for not being able to send this information sooner, but we have only recently discovered this issue and ensuing ramifications ...