Not a great value for your dollar anyways. Cheap plastic shit, small volume consumables. They make communities poorer.

There are thousands of trees in the median. Or, are you thinking of the short bit between Gray and NH?

National park status usually places a moratorium on hunting and some/all fishing, so I guess I would be opposed to this. Parks are supposed to protect special and unusual places from overuse or destruction. This are has been used for centuries without destruction, and our harvesting laws have mostly prevented overuse.

Hidden or open, they all tax you at the rate necessary to provide services. Your NH buddies just don’t notice that they keep the same percentage of wages by year end.

Tinnitus works just as well.

And if you miss a dispensary with that rock, there is a guy hiding in a bush ready to build a new dispensary in the emerging market you just located.

Chaotic neutral forces at work.

If only my dash cam could issue citations….

But really, you don’t have to catch all the violations, just enough that people start to notice and react by clearing the snow. Or stopping at red lights. Or removing illegal lights. It’s a long list of things we want stopped but the cops are unwilling to both about.

News/weather personalities on the TV need to maintain the hype. Can't just be reporting anymore.

“Winter storm”. This used to be normal weather.

My dad quit in the early 70s when the price topped .01 per cigarette.

That was for a carton, right?

They’ll stop at nothing to dismiss the threat of catastrophic climate change.

It’ll go to a gem show out west. It’s crazy how fast stuff gets moved around. Steal in the west, sell in the east, and vice versa.

...you're in Florida watching the television weather and decide to call up your caretaker to make sure the house was "really" winterized.

Ll bean sponsors there too, $35 per ticket beats to Ikon pass crew.

You'd think there were some other way to determine if a person was consuming drugs...

Remember that AG in S Dakota that killed a pedestrian while driving his car and using his phone to check emails? His name is South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg. He was impeached and tossed out of his office. It's not about party, it's about doing the right thing.

That said, it's remarkably easy to say "of course they did it, since otherwise our party would look bad." Just like you said about the PPH making hay for some Democrat. Stop saying shit like that, stop guessing motives. Stop using a reporter's or editor's decision in phrasing to justify YOUR bias. Just be the person who starts with "Good, they deserved it" and let it go with that. That is what you are hearing a bunch of people doing in this thread, and yet you persist in "I'll believe it when I see it." It's you. You are the problem.

And he is a male. And he is (apparently) a fisherman. And he is caucasian.

None of them are linked to his fraudulent behavior. That is the only thing that matters. If he's guilty, persecute and prosecute. Dragging his choice of political affiliations into it is, quite frankly, small. I dare say most registered Dem voters have no interaction with ANY Dem politicians. Likewise with Republicans. Creating a relationship where none exists is one of the big reasons our country is such at odds today.

Agreed.

I'm not versed in the vagaries of state PUC rules, but most have a list of allowable expenses for inclusion in the "cost to deliver" electricity rates. In Oregon they can expense maintenance of right of ways, but it's a fixed amount. Like, the total for maintenance is capped, and how much they do is proportional to the cost per mile. They also have to maintain the entire network, and not just the easy bits. Indiana might be different, as might Maine. I do know CMP hires local ROW maintenance crews.

Yes, but also the line clearing would be passed on, as would the undergrounding of lines. There is no part of the capital infrastructure owned by the Avangrifters that we, the ratepayers, haven't given them through "cost of delivery". It's the biggest lie told by CMP and the PUC. Allowing for-profit infrastructure is harming the economy, and enriching the already wealthy.

The overarching reason for snowstorm power issues are trees. There are 2 solutions. First is to trim trees back from lines so that it is impossible for anything to fall on the lines. In residential areas this means a LOT of decorative trees will be gone. Or, spend a lot more money and underground the lines. Neither is cheap, neither is easy. It really doesn't matter, in the moment, who owns the lines. Storm response is a process, prioritizing different lines based on how many are downstream. They obviously want to first do the things that improve the most connections.

Times like this it’s best just to admit defeat rather than prolong suffering.

I doubt that there are any states in the USA where you couldn't say they have a terrible drug problem. Capitalism has created a society that needs mind-altering substances in order to cope.