Then stop driving it until you fix it. Police departments have the discretion to tow the car, next time it might be a pricier than just a ticket. If you don’t show up they will default you and you just owe what you owe plus court costs…not sure if that will eventually impact your license too but that’s the risk you run

If you junk the car and show proof of that they often will throw the ticket out with court costs.

I got to tell you, as I began to read this I thought your tone was going to be snippy with the whole entitled to have opinions versus having opinions…..but reading your whole reply I am going to revisit that first impression as you simply trying to be particularly thoughtful in your reply, and I can appreciate that.

Just to push back on your eventual point in the first paragraph, i never said both of our opinions are equally valid, just that we are both entitled to have an opinion. I will maintain that is true. In fact, I know I am bias, but I give my own opinion more weight than yours. And I do not hold it against you if you do the same with you own opinion on this subject!

The whole reason I made that statement was to acknowledge that we hit an impasse. I am not going change your mind and your weren’t going to change mine.

I will say that I do read his newsletter, I used to follow his PVD Facebook page that he had going before going to the Globe. (Not even sure if that is still maintained). That is all to say, that over a better part of a decade I have been reading McGowan articles. I will acknowledge that he does use sport analogies from time to time, but I do not see it as much as a problem as you seem to do. Moreover, given that he cover politics more than anything else, I cant think of what politics translates more perfectly into than sports. Elections are races, candidates are judged by their performance by the electorate, votes like points determine the winner. Some candidates, like sports teams, are better funded than others. And like in sports everyone loves a good underdog story line.

In any event, pure objectivity in journalism is a myth. I am not even sure what that would look like. Even with a plain reporting of the facts, I find folks who do not like what they are hearing would question the objectivity of not contextualizing those facts in a way that they subjectively believe is needed. In this instance, if reporters questioned the financing without any basis that it does or does not exist….that would not sound too objective to me if I were supporting the tower...

As far as digging up the Fane financing, or lack thereof, thats an unfair expectation. Fane had every reason not to publish that information for business reasons. Short of that, as far as I know the Fourth Estate does not have subpoena powers.

Again good talk. This is my last reply friend, I leave you to have the last word if you so desire it!

I disagree with your take, but we are both entitled to our opinions. I will say, that I did look up the Globe RI staff and found that Lylah M. Alphonse is ¨the Rhode Island Editor for the Boston Globe, where she leads a team covering and exploring the Ocean State.¨ I dont see anyone with the bureau chief title, but i suspect that role is probably played by the editor. Their RI coverage is pretty good. I opted to pay for one paper and its the globe. Although I have hit the projo paywall a few times this year and I have been tempted to sign up…its just depressing how reduced our paper of record has become and I struggle wanting to give Gansett any of my money. This is all to say, I appreciate Mcgowans reporting….i feel like people find issue with journalistic objectivity when they feel slighted by a perceived subjective aspect of an article. I noted that line where he dismissed vocal critics that complained about the design…the design take is the mother of all subjective takes…I did not find it that bad…not great, but i love the Superman building, and i read someone pitching to knock it down, so again its subjective as heck. It was a dig at them for sure, I chuckled, but imagine for those who cared about that issue did the opposite. The finance question was reported on tho…and the reason no one did in-depth coverage on financing, or lack thereof, is because that info is not public. Fane gave assurances he had it, Salvatore apparently called BS, but he could have…at some point, had the backing…so how do you report that definitively either way?

Lastly, I dont want to beat a dead horse here, but sounds like your doubling down on the sports thing..I suspect that maybe its a slight to call someone a sports journalist? I dont know….sounds like a good gig if you can get it. Aside from an occasional sport analogy, I do not see Mcgowan going on and on about sports or covering it in depth…..i guess he tweets about a little league team he coaches sometimes…..I only mention this because it seems you got some well thought out criticisms of Mcgowan, and i dont disagree with the premise of the issue you are highlighting, i just disagree it applies to Mcgowan…in the end, i feel like your just hurting the feelings of some sports reporter out there who is really trying hard to cover the Baseball Classic, and get his father to say they are proud of them….hang in there sport journalists! YOU ARE ENOUGH. YOU ARE WORTHY!

Either way good talk!

>Dan McGowan

Pretty sure you gave McGowan a promotion and insulted him all in one swoop....I don't think he is a bureau chief as much as he is a reporter and columnist, and I am not sure when he covered sports...I presume before wpri? So like maybe ten+ years ago? In any event, with all due respects to sport journalists, i got a few faves, in the last ten years McGowan has been covering PVD politics so well he is the go to reference on any pvd issue you google. I never got the sense that he was a proponent or opponent of this project.

But I too am curious what BEAN means...I thought bean counters....but below someone said Build Everything and Now...which I never heard before, but makes sense

You have no idea what you are talking about.

I mean you went from declaring no one was buying, to stating only dummies are buying. We can wait if you want, but i can tell you your take is for sure wrong. Unless we build more housing, the best we can hope for is that prices flatten. But you are entitled to your opinion not to the name calling. You take is trash tho, feel free to try again.

If you bought your home, you participated in a market place, and if you bought at a decent prices it’s because it was valued based on how much the house was worth relative to supply and demand for similar properties. So sure your home is not a supply, but it is part of the supply. Not sure what your hang up is..

Wrong? It’s a fact people are still buying and homes are being sold quickly. Is it foolish? I don’t know bud, rents are going up so one can argue not buying is foolish.

Now your catching on ! Yes, the inflated housing prices that have doubled if not tripled in the last three years are in fact too high. Your other comment had folks in my end question your intelligence but I said give my boy a second, he’ll get it!

Plenty of people are still buying, I’ve been to open houses that are packed, homes in certain desirable locations barely last a week, if that, before they are sold. So wtf are you talking about….

Finding a multi family unit, in any place you want to live yourself, in this market is very hard…

Location of a home, the amount of work needed on any given property, and trying to max out on a housing budget all make a huge difference. We saw a house that was great, at 425k but needed work done…a quote for the bathroom alone was like 30 to 45k….

Yeah, but they will lure you in with the affordable moon pod but charge you outrageous rates for air, smh.

I’m OPs partner, and know she is open to Elmhurst. We lost out on a few bids in that area….she does have a Cranston preference at the moment tho, but we are taking every home in on a cae by case basis.

Beyond the Swedish Chef from Sesame Street, what bonafides do the Swedes have to even attempt a list like this? Even the Swedish Chef was suspect - a negative and angry Borgie borgie borgie to this list!