This guy works for the company that owns the mall you dip shit. You think he should pay to keep the lights and water on himself? I’m sure his next paycheck isn’t going to show up either.

Do you pay your employer’s bills?

TSA takes 5 minutes in Bangor.

In rural Maine the grange

In the 70s or 80s there was a statewide referendum to borrow bond money to build a UMaine medical school in Bangor.

It failed.

Most months my electric bill is less than $7 (Versant minimum), so I definitely spend more than that at Dunkin, but to be fair I’d need to factor in the cost of the solar panels over their expected life span to get my true monthly electricity cost

Not sure, but I’d guess if they do exist they won’t be so open about it now! They operated in a legal grey area because Maine prostitution laws were narrowly written and only covered PIV sex for a while.

Downtown Bangor was on the decline from the 70s when strip malls started opening until the late 90s when some of the seedier establishments were closed.

That’s never going to be economically viable. The best you could get would be an 8 seater like Cape Air flys between Trenton and Boston, and I doubt enough people are going to pay $150 one way to fly BGR to PWM to fill one of those.

Downtown Bangor is way better than it was 20 years ago. Multiple buildings that were unoccupied other than ground floor retail have since been renovated to high end apartments.

25 years ago downtown Bangor had multiple massage parlors openly offering “happy endings”. Now there are actually decent restaurants and nice apartments downtown.

I don’t think I’d say it’s on the decline. It’s just that it’s remoteness and smaller population means it’s pretty far behind Portland.

It’s the same as any other junk mail. You’re on one or more mailing lists.

Once they have your address it’s easy to know you live in CMP territory.

Sure it’s a complicated subject but it’s not a big reach to come to the conclusion that people crying for both “small government” and restrictions on free trade at the same time are kind of hypocrites — restricting free trade is inherently a “big government” power.

I’ve lived in Maine for the entirety of my 40+ years on earth and I agree with you 100%

Restricting free trade doesn’t seem very small government

Looks fine to me. I’d be okay if they built something like that in my town. Unfortunately the best lot for something like that in my town is now being turned into a 45 room “bed and breakfast” (really just a hotel that serves breakfast with an apartment for an employee to live in the building)

Who cares

It takes years to build and launch a ship from BIW. In any scenario where hundreds of nukes are flying it’s basically irrelevant.

Air fields are strategically important if they factor into an immediate counter offensive.

It takes years to build and launch a ship. BIW is basically irrelevant in total nuclear war

It’s only on the 2000 warhead scenario because they’re probably running out of strategically important things to nuke at that point

Did you just time travel here from 20+ years ago?

They already renumbered all the exits to be mile based and not sequential. They don’t have to change any of the other exit numbers.

I just close up their coop overnight. I only did a heat lamp on the coldest nights their first winter. Most of mine are 6 years old and barely laying now, so they’ve managed the cold.

Watch out for frostbite on the combs. A couple of mine had had some very superficial frostbite on the tips of the comb.

Try the Saltair Inn for a waterfront B&B (disclaimer, I live here so I’ve never stayed there but the location is great)

One option:

The unfortunately still sticking to a racist name “Big Squaw Mountain” near Greenville.

They have a magic carpet for the beginners and a triple chair serving beginner and intermediate terrain. The old double lift to the summit no longer exists, so terrain is limited but it’s fine for a beginner. It’s run by a local non-profit that leases it from the current neglectful owner (until it finally gets sold to a developer someday)

They have rentals and lessons, but aren’t open every day of the week. Lift ticket prices are very reasonable.

I’ve been a few times and it wasn’t busy. One time was after an big storm and conditions were great. I went last year during a cold snap after a partial thaw and the snow was thin and rock hard though.

Graduated from UMaine CS department (as the flagship they don’t like being called UMO) and I know people that went to UMF for various degrees. I would definitely recommend UM over UMF for comp sci.

In most states outside New England town government isn’t even really a thing (if town government exists it is extremely limited in power compared to the county). “Towns” are often unincorporated settlements and cities are the incorporated municipalities. In some cases you’ll even have enclaves of unincorporated areas in the middle of huge cities that refused to be annexed and continue to be administered at the county level (for example, Google map Houston and look at the border — that irregular shape is the result of annexing densely settled unincorporated areas) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_town

Houston https://maps.app.goo.gl/MkksCHaSkHagEwyv7?g_st=ic

Harris County, where Houston is located, has a bunch of unincorporated communities: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Harris_County_Texas_incorporated_and_unincorporated_areas_Houston_highlighted.svg

Check out how much of Los Angeles County (maybe the most populated county in the US?) is unincorporated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Los_Angeles_County,_California

New England, including Maine has very weak counties. Outside of New England, the county is the default form of government. Areas can incorporate as a city and have their own police, etc but the default is to run everything at the county level.

I live on MDI. They partially resisted school consolidation and created an AOS. Each town has a school board and budget. Sharing teachers between schools in the AOS is a pain because they are all employees of the individual towns. Multiple towns had their own police chief and fire chief, which is finally merging. Separate code enforcement and planning. There really is no need for all this duplication of effort and services in a small geographic area.

Canada went through with a municipal amalgamation process that was successful