Our View: No Place Like Home

 We’re writing this before the results of Tuesday’s election are known. Understandably, there’s a lot of tension in the air, not only in our newsroom but just about everywhere we go across our communities.

 Seen from a few days back, the near future looks uncertain. It’s as if someone pasted a big question mark over the rest of the week. Those days will happen, but whether it will be business as usual or something else is impossible to tell. We prefer to think it will be the former, that the results will be clear and that we can all go back to worrying about mundane things like what to have for dinner tonight.

 It’s not as if there isn’t enough happening in our local towns to consume our attention. Things that matter, like decisions on affordable housing that can make the difference between having a vibrant, year-round community with full classrooms and being a playground for the wealthy with labor imported from off-Cape and school systems that are a shadow of today’s districts. Things that we write about in these pages every week. 

 When something as monumental as Tuesday’s election comes along, it’s easy to lose perspective. Yes, immigration, the economy and international affairs matter, and those problems will be thrashed out over the coming months, no matter who wins. As they saying goes, there’s no place like home, and we fervently hope that will once again rise to the top of our priorities after this week passes into history.