Again, Canada...upstate NY....the mountain west....other places have the same weather and better road maintenance. There really isn't anything amazingly unique about MA weather.

Bullshit. Rich people bay want exclusive neighborhoods but they do also want neighboring towns to house their workers. Housing scarcity throughout the region is not something they desire

He's talking about the homeless people living there.

I find neither of those two to be particularly disparaging to be honest

Thems fighting words

The freeze-thaw cycling of our increasingly mild winters isn’t doing us any favors

Not necessarily due to the wording of the bill as there are multiple reasons for them to access information or data not just involving foreign adversaries

The bill is only restricting contact with foreign adversary's not any free speech in this country,am I right ,no?yes?

I’m hoping they do my street this year. I live on one if those unofficial huge cut through streets.

Meh, you’re not even aware of it though if you don’t follow the nonsense news.

The roads are good in my town. Whereas Fitchburg is basically dirt roads at this point.

That's a great mural. I really like the Bill of Rights next to Zinn's A People's History - that artist is clever. Subtle subversiveness is the best kind.

I think really depends on your town's bylaws with regard to how meetings are conducted. In my town's Annual Town Meeting or Special Town Meeting we can't speak about anything we want. We have to speak about whatever motion or amendment is open for discussion. There's a moderator who is ON IT and will bang the gavel. We also can't attack or mention anyone by name in comments.
Board of health decision-making meetings are technically public and we're allowed to go watch if you want but I don't believe their decisions need voter approval.
Edit for capitalization of the important, unique meetings.

Massachusetts energy right here

The line at dunkin is long enough already. One major benefit if western mass is we don't have to listen to that ridiculous accent every day.

Do not come on over, we don’t have the jobs or resources to support you.

Rich people need poor people to dust their mansions and mind the little shit offspring they can’t be bothered to raise themselves, as they are too busy driving the middle class even lower.

Not a contrail but a reflection of a lighting fixture reflecting in the glass through which this photo was taken.

ummm, ok. Blue skies here. Everything fairly normal. Certainly the feds have their impact on the country as a whole but as the post states: Mass has the highest GDP per capita in the country. So one could assume that we can make prudent decisions with those dollars and find ways to make said networks reliable and effective. But no blame the feds or the other 49 states or some other deflection.

We control our destiny. The more people understand this the more things will improve. The great federal rescue from 2008 replaced windows in the next town over from me. They spent hundreds of billions on the program and we got windows. I'm sure a few towns over got a short road repaved and somewhere else replaced a water main. We control our path forward. Time to fix the roads, the rails and the utilities.

The housing scarcity is intentional. If housing is scarce it keeps poor people away and that's exactly what some rich people want.

I mean we probably could. Survive != over eating like 5k calories a day. The average American diet would have to shrink and CA would have to stop exporting crops but it could hypothetically be done. CA already provides like 45% of fruit and veg, but also exports like 50% of what it produces. So combine all that with the food we import from other countries and I think we'd be ok.

If, of course, we could actually distribute the food equitably. The fact that we haven't beaten food insecurity in this country is absurd and a disgusting failure of governance generally. But that's a problem in all states

We also export a lot of food to Canada. It's roughly a wash. Some years they are the net exporter some years we are the net exporter.

The Ashfield lake house and Montague book mill are nice.

Fuck off back to Cambridge, nobody cares about your shitty opinion

In the top 15 but not the best.