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Reply to comment by Suddenly_Suitable in Transit experts say new MBTA general manager will 'fail' without more resources by ToadScoper
Your article states that 5 of the 7 on the board of directors were appointed by the governor, not the legislature. The MBTA board of directors web page also says this. https://www.mbta.com/leadership/mbta-board-directors
The other 2 are the secretary of transportation, and one chosen by the cities and towns in the MBTA advisory board.
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Reply to comment by Caraless_While22 in Triple Decker Property Managers by Caraless_While22
Is there hopefully some limits on what the Initial Board is allowed to do? This sounds like a really bad agreement for you and the other buyers. If I read this a buyer I'd be scared. Is this a normal agreement for new developments? I'm in an already established building so I'm not sure. In our setup, a simple 51% majority can spend money that's already in the condo account, but it takes 75% to make an assessment (raise the monthly rates or do a one time charge to all units)
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Reply to comment by Quirky_Butterfly_946 in Triple Decker Property Managers by Caraless_While22
You might be confusing HOA's that govern a neighboorhood of single family houses and condo associations that govern shared buildings. (Or maybe you are saying never buy a condo, it's unclear. But condos are pretty commonly the only way for regular joes to afford a place in the city.)
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Reply to comment by Caraless_While22 in Triple Decker Property Managers by Caraless_While22
Did you get that in writing or did someone tell you that verbally?
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Reply to TIL Like casinos, shopping malls are intentionally designed to disorient visitors. The feeling of losing track of time and geography inside a mall is called the Gruen Transfer. by Rifletree
LOL. I have a recurring dream where I'm lost in a mall. Somehow I'm always in the wrong "wing". Which never happened in real life, our mall had "the wing with the arcade" and the other one.
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Reply to comment by Conan776 in T unveils new slow zone dashboard providing never-before-seen look at subway condition by austinmartinyes
So, they got 100 million to fix slow zones. They spent 1 million to collect and analyze data for internal purposes, like what they should fix first. They spent another 100k to make that data accessible to the public. I don't see the problem. * these are made up numbers but the orders of magnitude are the point - fixing the slow zones is gonna cost waaaaay more than just making a dashboard, and collecting the data in the first place as already necessary as a prerequisite for actually fixing stuff.
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Reply to comment by Catchthedisc in Are index funds really better than manage funds? by Catchthedisc
is your managed fund still doing better even after fees? That's the usual issue - the fees often are more than the "gains" from active management.
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Reply to comment by Commercial_Board6680 in New coronavirus subvariant, XBB, now widespread in New England by uxd
It's not just you that your decision impacts. You are also saying "If I kill some other people, I kill them. I don't care anymore."
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Reply to NC senators propose eliminating participation trophies for youth sports by SpudB0y
Get your act together boomers. First some of you invent participation trophies, then others of you complain that youngsters are all soft, but are clueless that it was your own generation that caused it.