Why are they giving him bail???

As someone who has lived in 2 no inspection states, it is quite literally the same. The dangerous cars are always on the road. In MA they just pay sketchy garages to pass them.

I live in Nebraska, and though inspections aren't required, front and rear plates ARE.

>Before she left for Texas, Fiandaca, who did not respond to an interview request for this story, served as commissioner of the City of Boston’s Transportation Department in then-Mayor Marty Walsh’s administration. 

This had Gone Girl written all over it at the start, til it came out that the husband was a lot bigger of an asshole than Ben Afflecks character. He’s too stupid to not get caught selling fake art, why did he think he could get away with murder and disposal of a body when he’s already facing federal charges? Just a wild story all around.

It’s literally not the same. It literally sounds like mad max on the roads.

Edit to add: I live in a state with no inspections.

I never understand the logic of killing for insurance money. Most people who pull this seem to get caught. Worst of all, the kids get roped into the entire mess and often are murdered too.

I don’t have a problem with the inspections or plate requirements, but it would be nice to make it a bit easier to get the inspections done. It’s currently an old fashioned system of driving around looking for a place that only does inspections during the working hours of most people or on Saturday when the waits are the longest. I’m greeted by an annoyed stare by some gas station that doesn’t want to even do it for whatever reason. It’s 2023, so maybe joining the 21st century with an online scheduling system would help.

I thought they were escorted out by an elderly woman, so I assumed they went with grandparents?

It’s so weird her credit/debit cards were deactivated rather than unused. If you want to make it seem like a disappearance, I’d think one would use the latter approach.

Glad they have him so he can’t tamper with any evidence.

Personally, it reminds me of the Watts case :(

I love how sheltered people of MA are. If you go to a state with no inspection it’s literally the same as it is here. You don’t get hit random hunks of junk everywhere you go . Y’all make it sound like mad max. Also “too much government regulation” is not a phrase that has ever been used in MA. You get what you vote for!

Thank god I have a septic and don’t contribute to this garbage.

I have found our bps schools to be great and when living in Boston you have access to metro west suburban schools with out suburban housing price tags

After nearly three years it finally caught up to me. Damn you XBB.

Thought I was going to end up at the ER struggling to breathe, but the Paxlovid kicked in and saved me the trip - despite vaccine and booster.

Ended up at the ER with my one year old instead a couple days later, had covid-induced croup and was having trouble breathing.

Not fun, would not recommend.

From the story in the Globe:

Investigators have found blood and a damaged knife with blood on it in the basement of the Cohasset home where Ana Walshe was living with her husband, Brian R. Walshe, who bought $450 of cleaning supplies before the mother of three was reported missing to authorities, a prosecutor said in court Monday.

During the arraignment of Brian Walshe Monday on a single count of misleading police, Norfolk First Assistant District Attorney Lynn M. Beland described the discoveries police have made since launching a high-profile search for 39-year-old Ana Walshe last week.

Beland said that while executing a search warrant this weekend at the Cohasset home where the couple has been living with their three children, they discovered blood and a damaged knife with blood on it in the basement. Beland did not specify in what way the knife was damaged, nor did she provide details about the bloodstains police found.

Ana Walshe has not been heard from since she left her home around 4 a.m. on New Year’s Day to take a rideshare to Logan International Airport for a flight to Washington, D.C., where she works for a real estate company, family have told police. Investigators have not been able to confirm she took a rideshare, but have determined she did not board a flight from Logan, according to Cohasset police Chief William Quigley.

How did she end up here?

She's dead and he did it.

They sound like a truck stop bathroom when the cleaning service has been on strike for three weeks would suit them better. Garbage is as garbage does.

Everywhere does it though. I live in "low tax" SC now and pay more on my car then I did in MA for an inspection, and there are absolute shitboxes on the road because there's no inspection. Also got hit and run in a garage but because SC doesn't require front plates, they didn't get a view of the plate and I was SOL.

From reporter Yvonne Abraham:

As newly inaugurated Governor Maura Healey formally introduces herself and her plans to the Commonwealth, there’s one more thing she is now delighted to share.

She has a partner.

For almost two years, Healey has been in a relationship with Joanna Lydgate, an attorney and her former deputy in the attorney general’s office, who now heads a Washington nonprofit trying to safeguard our endangered democracy.

Until now, Healey has been quite circumspect when it comes to this part of her personal life. But being governor requires her to share more of herself than she did as attorney general, she said. More importantly, the women and their families are finally ready for the couple to step into view.

“I feel really happy today, being able to tell this story,” Healey said Friday evening, holding hands with Lydgate on a couch in the governor’s rented North Cambridge apartment. Healey made an unannounced move to the duplex, a converted bakery in a neighborhood of triple-deckers, just before the election.

“This is a person I love very much and I have great respect and admiration for,” the governor said.

Read more: https://www.boston.com/news/the-boston-globe/2023/01/09/maura-healey-partner-joanna-lydgate/

Still holding onto my green plate, had it since the 90s.

Meta-analyses show that studies vary between not being able to find a firm conclusion, or pointing to the conclusion that safety inspections make roads safer: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8296297/

Much of Europe has much more stringent vehicle inspections than even Mass, (Germany as the most notable example). The most English-friendly single-case study I found was out of Norway, and concludes firmly that inspections reduced the number of unsafe cars on the road, but resulting accidents and fatalities were not reduced by as much as expected, and posits that drivers of cars with faults that would fail inspection know that and adapt around it, to an extent, or are so negligent that they will crash no matter what the condition of their car. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16887091/).

On a more social-contract style argument, many if not all of the things tested for in vehicle safety inspections are directly related to how safe and easy it is to share the road with others in different ways. Front plates make it easier to have accountability for tolls and thefts. Better emissions benefit us all and all of our offspring. Proper lighting make it so I can see your car, and that you aren’t blinding me. Effective brakes and tires mean that you have more power to evade or mitigate a crash whether it’s your fault or not.

Interestingly, the meta-analysis also concluded that all these things that inspections make sure are in “working order” are just givens for newer cars- your 1990 Honda Civic in perfect condition is still horrible compared to a 2016 Honda in okay shape, and the 2016 also doesn’t have nearly as much time to wear out. Because of this, they say it may make sense to cut out all of the cost for the government of running these inspection centers and instead pump that into subsidies to allow people to buy newer, safer cars. (But most dedicated scientists, scholars and enthusiasts in the automobile world will tell you that the last time we tried to subsidize new car sales and get old cars off the road, Cash for Clunkers, was a disaster and had horrible effects on both the enthusiast and general used car market).

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i'm 100% convinced at least one person has a restraining order on you.