Take it back to your mechanic and have them check the brakes. If the mechanic agrees then have your mechanic fix them and then finish your inspection. If your mechanic says they are fine ask them to note that on the receipt along with any measurements that took of the pads (most will just eyeball the pads and say "you are probably good for another year" but in this case, I would ask them for measurements if they think they are ok. Then take that back to the inspection place. If they still don't let you pass for the breaks, you can initiate a challenge inspection with the state.

Maybe the state should try a new tactic of: "We want to build more housing (or even just a parking garage) near T-Stations. Towns who fight against that housing and get it rejected, we will respect their wishes... We will also be closing down that T-Station and will begin the process of identifying new stations in other towns where nearby housing will be accepted." Let's see how the NIMBY types feel about housing if they will lose their T-access and the associated property value bump on their houses because of nearby public transportation.

Source for "states began issuing them to people who were not eligible under federal law"? Because I am pretty sure that didn't happen.

The REAL ID thing came out of the federal government and states not having minimum standard for identification right after 9/11 where they felt they needed to protect against fake ID that like most post 9/11 rules had nothing to do with 9/11. Then they forced the states to take on the actual work that really should have been a federal job for their standards. It was a knee jerk reaction to an event when they started looking at all kind of things they decided needed to be better regulated, but in the case of IDs there was not the problem you cites but instead simple a lot of different state IDs with a lot of different things on them that were designed to be used to allow people to drive cars, not as a federal ID.

REAL ID was pushed onto states to make them do the job of the US Government and take on the expense of providing Federal Government compliant IDs for the Feds with the threat if they didn't the Feds would withhold funds from states for things like roads and bridges. Massachusetts delayed it for a long time because they rightfully didn't think it should be the state's job to do the federal government's job for them, especially for free.

Always a shitbag that has to throw a political slant into something that has none.

Lawrence the north short of what body of water? The Merrimack River?

>What do you want from me? Honestly? What do you want me to say and do?

I think they want you to back what you say. But like most, you love to spout off with something that doesn't make sense and then when asked to back what you are saying, you quickly backtrack with look it up yourself, anyone can find this info, do your homework, or some other excuse to not admit you made up a "fact".

You said "the dozens of factors that make them extremely different things." so it would seem simple for you to provide one or two of those "dozens of factors" right off the top of your head, but when asked you suddenly act like you are being attacked for being asked to simply back up your claims.

You are splitting hairs acting like the fur business is intrinsically bad while the meat business is not. Both have the same things, raising animals to then kill and harvest from them except the meat industry kills wayyyyyyyyy more animals.

I always find most of these "bans" illogical (not on fur per se, but anything towns and cities want to ban), because there is always some feel good reasoning behind whatever "bad thing" is the hot topic of the time that only makes sense if it was the only thing like it (rarely) or if you put on horse blinders and ignore all the other things that are just like it (the usual).

Take plastic water bottle bans or plastic bags in grocery stores. These are some of the current bad guys to be targeted and busy bodies like to pat themselves on the back for helping the environment because they made the local grocery store stop providing them. In the meantime there are rolls of plastic bags in the produce section for customers use and just about every item comes with so much plastic packaging, the bags or water bottles they banned is not even significant. Just one "Lunchable" probably has more plastic than all the plastic bags you get from one trip to the store.

I am all for bringing your own bags to the grocery store when you remember or have them in your car, I don't buy bottled water, and I don't wear fur. But these government feel good bans are stupid and don't really help anything with what they usually target and how they implement the ban.

"In the ordinance, the City Council outlined some concerns about fur including risks to public health, environmental threats related to its production, and the roughly 100 million animals that are killed annually as part of the fur trade."

In other news, there are still many places where you can go buy a hamburger, chicken nuggets, or a pulled pork sandwich.

>After the third day, the state may compensate jurors at the rate of $50 per day.

Sucks that the state doesn't even pay its own minimum wage.

Just make broccoli free. Easier and more socially acceptable.

>Can you name a single member in the list of associate members that has small stores in their best interest?

Yes, most of them. The number of small businesses selling booze in the state far outnumbers the few large retailers like Total Wine. So all those distributors and other businesses on that list make most of their money off those thousands of small single shop businesses and local small chains, not off the handful of big national chains.

I am not involved with the industry at all other than I like to drink.

Sorry, typo there. You are correct. In my head I did pronounce it that way. Just typed it wrong.

Well not in the crushing way of a Halloween season. Also Salem is not really a "beach town" like others.

Then you better tell the Massachusetts Package Stores Association who is behind this one then that they are screwing themselves since you seem to know better than them.

How old is the car?

I think if you don't have your car inspected, California won't allow you to renew your registration. But I don't think your current registration is affected by not having yet done the inspection. I am not positive on that, so don't quote me. But if I am correct, then you can still drive your car because your registration will still be valid. Next time you are back in California with it, get it inspected then.

No you can not get your car inspected in MA for CA.

Kappy's is a local business where as Total Wine is a huge nationwide chain who "operate 229 superstores across 27 states". Question #3 is being pushed by small businesses to help protect them from large nationwide superstores.

>And shouldn’t licenses be obtainable to those whom have followed laws already and not illegally entered a country?

A huge number of people in the country without authorization entered the country legally and then overstayed their visas. Technically being here without authorization is not a criminal act in of itself.

Correct.

Except that #3 was put forth by small businesses to try and keep the big companies from making any moves for a number of years.

But it is a huge boost to the economy of Salem. Everyone is making a ton and if it was the opposite (no one coming) we would be hearing all the "woo is me" stories from businesses about how without the Halloween crunch they may not make it this year and so on. Just be glad it is just a single month and not, say, all summer like some coastal towns and islands.

Hop the commuter rail and go in that way. Brings your own snacks because unless you make a reservation somewhere a day or two before you go, you ain't eating in a restaurant.

Funny how a single word being wrong can make an entire sentence make no sense.

r/WordSalad

"all of them"? How many do you have? Have you considered not driving too fast if you know you are going to have an automated system clock you and issue a ticket?