Be committed to facilitating change through voting and action.

Just making sure this is the same RMV that didn’t bother looking into anything sent from out of state regarding driver violations and is culpable in the deaths of several motorcyclists? That one?

If it were me I’d try to sue for terms. Cops gone, new leadership and training or GTFO.

That may have been the intent of allowing these moves/actions but as usual, they’re abusing the fuck out of it. Fucking pathetic.

In MA they have some incentives as well, ROI even with an established company is still well within reasonable timeframe based on the quotes we received. We’ll see about in-use performance tho.

ROI is as little as 5-7 years for many these days it seems.

Except when the pavement is already deteriorating.

NH going down the shitter…. Sad.

Loooooooooo-sssseeeerrrrrrrr

I wouldn’t go bragging here

Fine him and van him from a few tournaments until he can get the mental health help he needs.

Good thing the prior president didn’t let three of these things slip by undetected or anything. Phew, close one!

He should be in The Hague.

https://vimeo.com/cityofmemphis

Watch em all. Every fucking second and come back here.

Weird how all our neighbors have different policies but less issues. They’re much closer peers than any state you mention, maybe regional culture is a thing?

That’s not a metric of criminality. The post was asserting some measure of safety benefit from our 2A laws. Look up homicide pet capita. Lookup crimes committed with a firearm per capita.

Totally down for better social safety nets and yeah that’s a huge plus for MA vs NH.

We’re also home to big pharma and healthcare so indirectly benefit from it at perhaps the expense of having serious discussions of universal healthcare.

It’s a weird place to be here, so much progressive potential but so much old money, corruption and nimbyism holding things back.

I intended that list more as a list of opportunities to improve things here and less of grievances but realize it may have come across poorly.

I’ve owned a business here and there is a LOT to be done to make things better for small business.

Don’t have to look far from Boston to see them closing and being forced further away… we get banks and chains now. I’ve lost count of shuttered local business in metro west.

The financial burdens to the little guys (but maybe not those in “need”) is astronomical these days. Something needs to change or folks won’t like where we end up.

So we’re better than FL but can’t improve? They aren’t comparable and I never asserted as much.

MA has plenty of shortcomings and if you don’t see that I’d love some of what you’re smoking. Is it better than some areas? Absolutely. The bar isn’t very high if FL is your comp.

LoL so let’s tout our stringent and woefully messed up gun licensing with…. Not our neighbors. Phenomenal.

We could also talk about the layers upon layers of taxation, here. Like a goddamn onion people think it’s normal to pay sales tax on a car, then excise tax on top of it yearly, oh plus inspection requirements. Want to expand your house? That’ll cost you 50% more than in NH because of the vast amount of bullshit.

It’s staggering what folks accept as the norm down here. You are not getting a good return on the immense tax schemes that suck everyone dry. Look at the state of our actual schools (buildings), roads, the T, etc.

We also have a pretty big prison complex here, and a state police force that can’t seem to stop committing fraud and wasting taxpayer monies.

The entire economy of Boston was underpinned by subsidizing secondary education and the schools profited so much they bought half the damn land area and guess what? That means less taxes.

There’s a dire housing problem and the local / state government hasn’t acted to curb NIMBYism for decades. Directly hurting anyone not rich enough to own land here.

So let’s add on a few more passive taxes that folks won’t notice instead of using sound policies to foster affordable housing, mixed-use development, invest meaningfully in infrastructure and transit, and broaden the tax base.

When is it enough to demand some kind of accountability or real change?

I honestly think the incremental creep of mismanagement, taxation, and slapping band aids on core issues has people a bit deluded.

Boston and the surrounding area is great for white collar, high earners who own a home. For…. Everyone else? I’m not convinced.

What? We have more gun crimes and homicides than NH, VT, or ME per capita. Also not sure how that’s relevant to how things get purchased, built, and signed off on. The list of debacles grows every year, we can start with the new MBTA cars. The mere fact this has been unresolved for so long is a failure of management and leadership.

Plan for efficiency and totally fuck up execution with zero plan B. Ofc it’s in MA.

https://wraltechwire.com/2022/09/23/doomsday-warning-its-time-to-start-moving-coastal-cities-to-higher-ground-heres-why/

The only real plan is to relocate the capital inland. There is no saving Boston in the long term. 30-50 years maybe before flooding is a serious problem.

Nah then it’ll be nostalgic

Agreed. Had a deposit on an Ioniq and decided not to.