Oh, whoops. I'm on the outskirts of the county, so I'm in a different district. My 5 was just a single line about whether my rep should pursue a fee on carbon fuels to offset their impact. Didn't have any information at what point the fee would be imposed nor on what fuel applications.

Yeah, that one caught me off guard too. Basically no information there and a quick google didn't turn up anything. Kind of hard to vote for an energy tax during an energy crunch when they can't even tell you where the fee will be implemented.

West Warren

Take me hoooome

That's what I thought too. Which isn't too weird to me as an American either. Especially if it's dark beer, I don't even want that ice cold.

That's pretty graphic, even with the fig leaf.

Nah. Only time I've had to wait for more than an hour for a wrecker was in a blizzard. I guess maybe I just get lucky? Or maybe we just have better tow companies outside of the city.

Never had that happen to me. Usually about an hour wait has always been typical in my experience. I think it depends more on the towing service than AAA themselves though.

Probably. I read somewhere that they changed suppliers and it was probably an excuse to liquidate stock, I just didn't know if they actually renovated. Those old buildings can be a nightmare to maintain, never mind doing any substantial work on them.

What ever happened with all the renovations they were talking about? Did they even actually change anything?

Math took a hell of a lot more manpower than it does now. It's crazy to think how much labor supercomputers save us compared to calculating by pen and paper.

No, I'm not familiar with either of those places.

You know what they say about things that are too good to be true, right? There's two possibilities in my mind for what's going on there. First is that dealers will sometimes list low prices to lure you in, but then refuse to sell you that specific vehicle and offer something "comparable." Other possibility is that those cars have had some kind of severe damage. It's worth the money to run a Carfax on them. General advice is: don't trust any used car dealers.

Edit: Also, don't buy a Pontiac. The later years especially are crap and they don't make parts for them anymore.

The Quabbin

Yes! We need this kid to design our new flag!

We're finally changing the flag?!?! Good! I vote for a lobster roll on a field of white.

This sounds amazing!

THAT'S MY PURSE! I DON'T KNOW YOU!

Ohhhh, that's 1 percentile lol. I thought it was in reverse order. That makes a lot more sense.

Fucking Gary, IN is tied for the top spot. Might as well just throw this list right in the trash where it belongs.

Out in the Quabbin towns. I've tried calling to get them to reduce it, but they basically told me to pound sand.

The price is the real sticking point for me. I haven't had much of a problem with the service at my current apartment, it's actually decently fast too, but $80/month with another increase constantly looming is too much for the lowest tier. Only reason it's so high appears to be because they've had no competition.

There was an option for HSR in the original proposal, but IIRC they rejected that option outright.

The Butterfly Conservatory in Deerfield is always a good visit. There's also the Eric Carle museum in Amherst, with Atkins farm right around the corner. Plus the Quabbin is on the way.

Maybe some day they'll get that east-west rail link. I still believe a high speed rail across the state would be transformative for the entire Commonwealth, but it doesn't look we plan on spending our infrastructure money on anything so ambitious.