The May 19 Annual Town Election includes four ballot questions: the DY Regional School override, Cape Cod Tech override, library debt exclusion, and a non-binding sanctuary city question. All four would increase your property taxes if approved.

Maine just admitted half its government got outsourced to NGOs nobody voted for. Cape Cod is quietly setting up the same trick — with Hyannis as the punchline.

In 1935 a ship with a 135-foot mast could just slip under the Cape Cod Canal bridges. Ninety-one years later, the clearance is still 135 feet. The water hasn’t risen. The story has.

At this point, Massachusetts taxpayers don’t pay taxes. They fund a government startup that never files quarterly reports and somehow always needs another round.

The Yarmouth Select Board voted 4-1 to place a non-binding ‘Equal Rights for Yarmouth Residents’ question on the May 19 ballot. The petition that triggered it carried only 35 signatures — 0.15% of the electorate.

Every kid who grew up in a Boston three-decker knows that answer by heart. So does every NGO collecting state checks.