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“No kings!” protest state officials who have been in public office for 50 years with no primary challenge
Having mastered the design of the Iranian Fordow nuclear site, the Senate Parliamentarian, the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship opinion, the verdict in the Diddy trial, and flooding in the plains of Texas, I will now explain how Obama’s national security team…
You needed ChatGPT to find these? And the evidence is—the Boston 311 dept? Boston 311 (like 911 in Brookline) is not an oracle of broad public opinion, but where a small army of condo-owning neurotics spends their afternoons phoning in war crimes reports about teenagers on…
You asked me to define popular—ok. Among Boston 311 complaints, aggravated driving is in the top five If a minority of people weren't taking out their mental issues on neighbors just trying to bike to work, we wouldn't need lanes and could share the road
Opinion | I pay poor people to deliver groceries to my multimillion dollar Back Bay brownstone, but if cars don’t stop idling in the bike lane while people carry bundles to my front door, I will have no choice but to push even harder for congestion pricing
Wholesome, good news
An engineer in Vermont decided to approach the owners of a local general store with the idea of installing old pay phones around town and making them free for public use. abcnews.link/x4hsIYz
Listening to @HowieCarrShow on 680 AM right now detailing (what was obvious) that @MarketBasket is pushing out Arty T in relation to a private equity firm, Exeter Capital, and a big law firm, Gunderson Dettmer, who want to ruin the place and squeeze every worker and shopper
Grading the Patriots’ training camp Cohesion: A Quarterback play: A Rookie development: A Team chemistry: A Injury management: A Coaching: A Offense: A Defense: A Special teams: A Overall: F- by Felger & Mazz
I had opportunity to walk in a bike lane in somerville last week and require 3 cyclists to slow down and stop...they yelled at me and I responded "Facists" . It was on an uphill so they were not happy to have to start in a low gear.....I felt like I was at my ownl no kings rally
Waking up and opening Twitter and seeing the firestorm about bike lanes
Once again we have the automatic framing of bike lane critics as both (1) hysterical and (2) necessarily somehow interested in “putting pedestrians [sic] lives at risk.” I mean come on, do you people have anything else? Any real responses to criticism or is it always just this?
Any kind of camera or AI powered ticketing will be the Alamo. It’s almost like they don’t want people to live in this state.
Speed cameras are already installed right before Allston tolls. Only a matter of time before Maura turns them on to help with the budget gaps. You didn’t think cable box tax would pay for it all or did you?