How exactly would people hoard heating oil? The tanks are almost 300 gallons. They going to fill their basements with 5 gallon jugs?

>We do not try to prevent people from accessing the pond. When the access license came up for renewal with the town, the BOS suggested a gate and key to help prevent milfoil and other invasive species.

How is it public if there's a locked gate?

Built at separate times and/or maintained differently than the house.

Cost caps aren't a fix. How about we legalize things like albuterol? Asthmatics know what works for them. You can use the same thing for decades but still have to juggle prescriptions and insurance, versus just being able to buy it over the counter.

They shouldn't be able to make a trivial alteration to a medication to extend its patent protection. I've read of cases where they combine two drugs and patent it. How is that useful? If you could take them separately, that's not a new invention or an enhancement to an existing one. That's something that patients would have already been doing on their own, if anything, the patent should be theirs.

Priorities. It'd be nice to see some.

They really should change the law before pardoning anyone. This sends a mixed message that it's okay to break the law. Obviously, it's team Biden trying to get every vote they possibly can and has nothing to do with whether or not marijuana should be legalized.

Meanwhile, the prices for things like epi-pens, asthma inhalers, insulin, and narcan are all still insanely high with the pharmas abusing the patent system and the FDA approval process to stifle any attempts at competition. This is where they should focus, not on a recreational drug. Save lives first, entertainment second.

This is a problem with settlements in general. There's often a public interest in the matter but the public is left in the dark. It can be medical, it can be police misconduct, it can be a homebuilder, anything. There can be instances where your town pays out a settlement which comes out of your property tax, but you don't even get to know the terms of the settlement. It's absurd.

Medical is worse in that doctors can't fix everything. Just because there was a negative outcome, doesn't mean there was malpractice involved. But people get lawyers involved and off it goes. The defendants may settle just to avoid the cost of dragging it through the courts. That doesn't mean they did anything wrong, it just means at minimum, it was more cost effective to do a payout than it was to put up a defense.

The uglier side of this is that if you're a patient needing a procedure that has a significant failure rate, even if you find the doctors and facility that has the best outcomes, they may decline to do the procedure because of the risk of litigation if it does go wrong. Been there, done that, not a good time.

Anyone that takes data from sites that don't have any access to the company's payroll information is a fool. Glassdoor's data is mostly self-reported. Now why might people enter low wages? I wonder..

I'm sure if the company was lying, the union would be all over it. The pubic backlash the company would face wouldn't be worth the risk. Instead, they'd use vague terminology like "compensation is comparable to similar jobs within the region".

The Sysco trucks I see in the area would require a CDL, which limits the amount of hours that the drivers can be on the road. For that amount of money, I don't think they have much to complain about.

Right from the article:

>A Sysco spokesperson told News 9 in an email that Sysco Boston drivers are making an average of $110,000 this year. The company said it's offering a 25% wage increase over the life of the next contract.

That's a lot of money for driving a truck, and 25% is a hefty wage increase.

I see what you did.

You created your profile two years ago. Coincidence?

lol, someone can't detect a joke. given the topic, probably not surprising.

It's a state by state breakdown, NH being over 100%. As others mentioned, they're using inconsistent data sets. So they probably got population per state from one place and the number of licensed drivers from someplace else. Not a great methodology. Minimum driving ages doesn't factor into this, that might skew the overall ranking but not the individual percentages.

1051 per 1000. Neat trick.