Plus mayor Wu's the first female mayor of Boston & the first non-white mayor of Boston. Wu already broke stereotypes & shows that Boston's willing to elect someone who's not a white male as mayor.

Apparently warm weather causes you to use less gas. Do you understand that you can put a sweater on instead of turning the thermostat up? Like, it is an actual option that people choose?

This makes sense except for that electricity suppliers DO bother with residential customers. However, to explain that, there seems to be a lot more competition with electricity supply than natural gas supply (also makes sense - lots of electricity sources out there).

City needs 2 things labs or residential properties owned by colleges.

Except this wasn't a candidate sending that.

Also, whether or not a person voted in elections isn't exactly secret data. That list they use to check you in when voting doesn't just get thrown out after the polls close.

Towns where I am rely on taxing personal vehicles yearly to fund the town government and services. Newer cars cost $500-$1k per year. Forcing people to pay for public transportation passes, while significantly raising other taxes to make up for the lost vehicle tax revenue and pay for the public transportation is going to hurt a lot of people who can't afford it.

Gasoline and diesel road taxes also make up a huge part of government budgets. Between public transport and electric vehicles, it would cripple governments if that tax revenue dried up.

Citizens still will have to pay the government that money, it will just have to come from higher taxes on other items people buy over and over every single day.

Not surprising that in Boston everything is focused on race rather than on real issues around wealth inequality.

I hope the ground level is all banks.

It really isn't that bad. Soldiers and Sailors is fifty feet tall at the top a a hill, and the bronze relief near the state house isn't as tall but its wider and more intrusive I think.

If it was much smaller more people would climb on it and cause issues.

Do people do large statues of people anymore?

I guess the Poe bronze is the most recently one I can think of but I think the trend has been to more abstract

I felt like the others were really derivative of other installations and monuments for different reasons. It likely wasn't the best, but it was the best of the options we had.

Totally agree. And it seems like everyone takes a zoomed in photo from far away as humanly possible

I'd be curious to see if there is a difference between on time payments and late payments between paper or online billing. I know I've paid my utility bill late due to plain old forgot about it. Perhaps they account for that a bit.

Massachusetts as a whole, which is decidedly less liberal than Boston alone, elected a black governor and overwhelmingly voted for a black president… twice.

But let’s worry about what bingo squares we haven’t crossed out yet in every elected office.

Check the Corner Mall in DTX

I think that 3rd party gas suppliers generally don’t bother with residential customers. Too small and not worth their time. Which is why there isn’t price comparison resources like there is for electricity.

15 minute intervals on trains would be a game changer for commuter rails. Once an hour during prime commute times is so limiting. One of the biggest frustrations of the commuter rail today is that if you have to plan your day around the schedule and if get held up a few extra minutes at your work or appointment, you lose an hour milling about at South Station.

I don’t understand how you came to that conclusion. It’s not about who voted for who. Its that they targeted black people that voted in a national election but not a local election.

> Not long after the preliminary election, a group of almost 18,000 Black Boston voters received a curious campaign mailer. No pictures of glad-handing candidates. No mention of the candidates at all. > > Instead, a mild scolding. > > “Thank you for voting in last year’s presidential election,” it read. “But public records show you missed voting in the important election for mayor last month.”

Wow, talk about racism. "Because you are black and I didn't win didn't vote for me, you must not have voted."

The unwanted adjustments are these seawall and levie structures, and the fact that were going to have to do geoengineering at this point, or otherwise the cities will sink within our lifetimes.

Technolibertarian also. Classical libertarianism is wildly useless at this point. We cant simply go live in the mountains anymore in a globalized high tech society. You just wouldn't have things like MRNA vaccines, bone mesh, and sushi. I'm somewhere between corpo-libertarian and digital democracy. https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/blog/political-ideologies-for-the-21st-century/

A good example of this is this exact situation where I think if the government doesn't step in here and remove this stupid law, the cities will sink and the government will continue to lose what little credibility they have. I'm giving them a chance here at least.

Uh, why?

Hey, thanks!

Oh, you're asking for the impossible. But wouldn't that be something?

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Agreed but

> a few months

Overly optimistic