I don’t think that’s what happened here. Watch the documentary. Sonja and Annie had some major personality issues.

Is there a benefit to paying a mortgage company for a house you'll probably die before you own vs. a landlord for an apartment you'll never own?

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Super. Majority. Every. Single. Elected. High. Office. This has to be the end of excuses

We don't qualify

Form doesn't matter, independence does.

America is now "guilty until proven innocent". Has been for quite a while.

Just the plumbers with many trucks and established marketing - plenty of small time plumbers with availability.

What's even more insane is that these people were convicted on faked scientific evidence. And the state still doesn't want to give their money back.

The tricky thing is, I get it, some of them may have been guilty. But corners were cut on the evidence.

> It’s just a matter of if they care enough to do the right thing.

It's a matter of pushing policies that police unions are opposed to, and this is apparently pretty difficult around here.

What are you talking about? Sharkbite fittings work with copper and pex. They're a great way to transition from one to the other.

Pex isn't PVC.

An hour commute from Attleboro is laughable. Also: median home price there is still 1/2 million.

Devens has so much land and so many unused buildings. I have zero insight into what it would cost, but turning those buildings into affordable housing seems worth investigating.

This is the kind of thing we need ballot initiatives for, not raising taxes on millionaires.

That’s not entirely true. Our city is highly educated and ripe with high paying jobs. The Boston suburbs are packed full of doctors, lawyers, professors, finance and business people who can afford a $1-2M house with a salary. The $5m+ houses…sure, now you’re looking at new buyers who are less likely to be receiving a regular paycheck.

It's highway robbery when it is done with fraudulent probable cause and then forced into a plea deal with threats, which seems to be standard practice.

“Ideally a federal one, but that seems unobtainable”

I am guessing the prosecutors, judges, cops and officials wanted the drug tests rubber stamped as positive to close cases no matter what and pressured the staff to do that, then blamed the fall guy whom they forced to do this for doing it independently.

What part of “federal” did you not understand?

And take a wild guess which party at least has elements speaking out against it?

bOtH sIdEs!

I expect this out of Alabama, not MA. Democrats in MA have super majorities in the house and senate, they have the SJC, and the governors office. They can pass anything they want here unilaterally (and could have done the right ting during Baker since they had the numbers to override a veto) It’s just a matter of if they care enough to do the right thing.

STATE constitution. Democrats in MA have super majorities in the house and senate, they have the SJC, and the governors office. They can pass anything they want here unilaterally. It’s just a matter of if they care enough to do the right thing.

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Wealthy people buying these homes don’t make their money through income. I truly wish people understood this more.

Of course, but this doesn't really address why there's this incongruency with MA in particular. Methinks it's largely because we have big issues with police unions having too much political clout here.