What Would You Ban in Grafton?
A number of Massachusetts communities have deep-sixed some interesting items and activities over the past year, but should Grafton join the banning bandwagon?
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Concord’s so-called bottle ban became a bylaw earlier this week, Brookline recently banned plastic bags and Styrofoam cups, and Arlington’s Town Meeting this fall upheld a seasonal leaf blower ban. Meanwhile, home-cooked foods have been forced out of many schools, an ostensible attempt to protect against allergies and childhood obesity. Let's not forget the most talked about ban of 2012, Middleborough's swearing ban.
Grafton hasn’t exactly hopped on this banning bandwagon, but should it?
Is there an activity or item you would want to see banned out of environmental, health or quality-of-life concerns? Let us know in the comments section below.
Jim Cole
1:59 pm on Monday, January 7, 2013
I would like the practice of a bunch of politicians or political hacks attempting to force their constituency to conform to their way of seeing things or their way of living. It's as if they believe that we are less intelligent and/or incapable of deciding for ourselves and our children just what is best. Stay out of my life unless it involves an actual safety hazard or circumstance. You were not elected to decide how we should run our lives and you certainly should not believe that YOU should be the deciding voice about how and what my children eat. All of this "We know what's best for you" mentality is bogus because in reality, the politicians do not have a clue.
Steve Burri
6:54 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Ban over-legislation !