>Given timing of snow and the streak of roughly 50 accidents during each
winter event continuing, I expect the Tuesday morning commute to be
impacted. Expect many schools and daycares to either delay opening or
close altogether.

What the heck is going on with these accidents. Are people just being lazy about winter driving best practices because of the mild winter? Forgot about how to drive in winter weather?

We haven't had any real surprises, or out of nowhere ice events. Just seems interesting the shear volume of vehicles involved in the incidents and the uptick in incidents.

Cool so you have an opinion on a specific issue that isn't based in the facts of the specific topic. You also won't do any research because it might challenge your opinion that, by your own admission, isn't rooted in specific facts.

You are basically just humble bragging about putting effort into remaining ignorant and don't even seem to realize it.

Cool so you have an opinion on a specific issue that isn't based in the facts of the specific topic. You also won't do any research because it might challenge your opinion that, by your own admission, isn't rooted in specific facts.

You are basically just humble bragging about putting effort into remaining ignorant and don't even seem to realize it.

Wow you just don't seem to understand the concept of investments and returns do you.

It is a NH investment that has been paying out profits to the NH general fund for years. If you and other taxpayers are upset that Cannon generates profits that go to covering the state's annual budget than let NH resident pass holders get the profits in the form of a dividend, or discount on their passes.

It is an intentionally sarcastic suggestion, but I see you got lost way back at how general business entities operate so I'm sorry for you there.

Educate yourself then post comments online. All will be better for it.

Fair enough. I consider myself from New England too, but I can say I do not relate to how people treat each other when I end up down south in the greater Boston to Worcester metro plex for any period of time. Add to that when I travel the number of times in my many years I have had people ask what is up with people from Mass.

Sitting at a bar in the Teton Village 'what's that accent?'
Me 'A mix of ME, NH, and beer.'
Patron 'wasn't quite a Mass accent, what is up with folks from there?' and then continues to tell a story about navigating raging assholes and their families.

I don't know, maybe it is the rude city meme, and then the rude city folks travel deep and add to that a Boston accent is fairly noticeable. This would include your greater NYC folk as well.

Back to point, if you aren't an asshole and don't bring an asshole vibe with you no one will care. I'm sure I've shared hiking, biking trails, skin routes, climbing adventures with many folks from Mass and never knew or cared because they, like I, were just doing our thing enjoying nature.

I have also had some positive interactions with folks who shared specifically they were from MA. Ironically they go out of their way to state they aren't like 'most folks from MA' a little like you did.

It cannot be over stated enough, it takes being an asshole first for anyone to even really care.

I can assure you we do not go out of our way to make it a MA folks aren't welcome. It really boils down to a 'ahh of course they are from MA' after the fact when acting aggressive and rude when something goes sideways.

ME and NH have home grown assholes as well and I don't like them either.

Just don't come up with a shitty self entitled attitude and no one cares where you are from. Why so many folks from Mass cannot figure this out is beyond me.

You have to be an asshole first, before being from Mass plays into the equation making one a Masshole.

I think a lot off Mass residents like to conflate Masshole as hate for Mass in general. It isn't. It is direct response to a strong held attitude and behavior that a large portion of MA visitors bring with them.

Repeated multiple times and will again. If you aren't an asshole firstly, no one cares where you are from. Act like an aggressive asshole and then are from Mass you are a Masshole.

I have friends who spent their whole lives in MA and they are actually the first to point out and be effected by others Masshole behavior when they come up and visit.

It is meme well outside just the northeast for a reason.

I don't give a shit. It is what it is. Don't be an asshole when you come up and no one will care you came up from Mass.

Sadly a non insignificant number (large minority/majority) of Mass residents, when they travel, like to be assholes and then try to defend their behavior by playing the 'I'm from Mass It's how we are' card like it makes it any better.

This weekend/last week it was well known conditions would be shit. There is zero justification for coming up and making aggressive scenes about the conditions, being rude, and justifying the aggressive scene because of where you came up from and projecting we all hate you for it. Sadly it isn't 20 something frat douches either.

It's moms and dads with kids in tow teaching the lesson that if you are rude and make a scene, you may get your way, and if not you will at least disrupt others away from their good time.

It is meme in the Northeast, Rockies, Tetons, Pacific Northwest, and Hawaii, to list a few, for a reason.

Cool does that mean the profits generated go back to the users who paid for it as a dividend and cutting the state out of Cannon's annual profits?

I'd love to get a dividend back on my annual season pass, and give NH less money to waste on downstaters

Cannon has nothing to offer them, but it doesn't seem to stop them from coming and then complaining Cannon has nothing to offer.

Look at the plates on any given weekend, +65% are MA. No I haven't done a data study, but I would still throw money on that percentage being accurate, or even lower than the actual data would show.

This probably the driver behind my position on this.

The tram, though historic, is seriously showing it age. It is also very energy inefficient compared to other aerial lifts available, including modern versions of a jig back tram.

....but it can only move so many people so quick. Combined with a relatively low threshold for 'Selling out' day tickets (thanks to limited parking), makes Cannon so much more bearable than Loon.

Let the massholes have Loon. Keep to minimal snow removal on the notch and let Cannon remain the profitable respite it is for folk of NH to enjoy what NH has to offer without the constant inundation of folks who view us all as their servants first and backwards lessers second.

Considering the tram was already rebuilt, maybe we can get a modern/retro tram. New drives, upgraded towers, top bottom stations and slightly larger cabins based on the current form factor. Keeps the Tram vibe and aesthetic, but could carry a few more people and cost less in energy expense to run per operating hour to soften the increased amortization cost.

I think it is irrational to expect a tramway from the 30s will just last forever, but a high speed gondola would lead to an overcrowded experience for all. Making Cannon another Loon, Waterville, or the like where you get long lift lines and over crowded trails.

>so for those of you wondering why the police didn't run the plates, you're not alone.

Yeah, I cannot imagine any issues at all with the police complying with every private citizen's request to run the plates on some random vehicle.

The landowner, outside of claiming it wasn't theirs did absolutely nothing that would have warranted the police running the plate and giving the property owner the RV owner's info.

There is a reason you cannot just go to the DMV and demand info on someone based on their plate number.

If you want that info you need to start legal proceedings and prove that you have a legal justification to that info.

This protects you, I and everyone from some random crazy pulling your plate 'cuz they though you cut them off and showing up at your house .

The property owner had other options at their disposal they never pursued, like filing an abandoned property claim, and as this is resolved never need to pursue now.

It would be nice if a few more folks did a bit of research before leaping to 'the cops are lazy, the cops are lazy and they should have just doled out private info, the cops are lazy and should have had it towed, etc., etc.'

If are median incomes can support rentals in the 1k-1.7k range and developer builds apartments targeting a market range of 3.5k-4.5k how exactly does that improve affordability?

You are trying to pretend:

1. Developers are ignorant to the concept of market saturation (developing pacing or out pacing demand)

2. Developers are actually interested in developing at a rate that puts the prospect of ever increasing rents rates at risk

3. Maine has housing demand that is stagnant of can be outpaced by development.

All three are fallacies, born out by decades of data.

I'm ambivalent to this development as we are already talking about a tourist trap developed town.

No this development will not have any downward pressure effect on area rents. Full stop. Quick ignoring facts and readily available data to try and imply otherwise.

These are apartments for higher income out of state workers, at best. More likely these will be long term rentals for higher income snowbirds, wanting to maintain their FL residency to live in the summer, and leave vacant in the winter.

Based on a non-existant dynamic in Maine currently: demand for housing remaining constant.

Come on do just a little research before regurgitating this same tired trope.

Maine has ever increasing demand pressure on its housing market. Anything outside of directed housing developments that specifically qualify/disqualify based on income, nothing but economic recession/depression and reverse migration are going to lower ME rents.

Everyone on here: History/Parking Lots/NiMBYs vs aFForDabLe hOuSIng....REEeeeEeEee WTF!!!!!!

Actual issue: History/Parking Lots/NiMBYs vs Market/above market Luxury 'Housing'

At best this project, if successful, will simply help raise the median rents in Freeport and provide a luxury option for new Maine arrivals with their out of state income and larger economies of scale provided equity reserves.

Nothing about this project will support directly, or even indirectly, housing affordability for lower, lower-middle, or even middle income earners already living working in the area.

I am ambivalent to this project, but misrepresenting or ignoring the actual facts is really pretty lame regardless of what side you fall on.

Work with your landlords people.

A lot of folks have taken the I'm not paying back rents, or even communicating with my landlord on back rents, stance and now all the covid protections are gone.

Downvote this all you want, but the folks that are getting evicted are, by and large, folks who basically have just taken all the covid money, heating oil money, covid protects, and assumed those programs would be renewed in perpetuity, while making no/minimal effort to make the landlord, according to lease, whole.

A lot of landlords are mom and pop folks who have put a lot of sweat equity into their properties and are staring down a barrel of banks coming for their nest egg. The Maine real estate market has a lot of institutional buying pressure on it right now.

If you think a multi-state management company, or bank is going to be a better, more understanding, landlord you might as well start packing boxes now.

I don't know a single mom and pop landlord who relishes in evicting. Banks who get a multifamily on default, or hedge funds who buy that bank out of a portfolio? They are all about an ROI, points above reinvestment risk, and give zero fucks; They will see you out with the backing of a robust legal team.

If you are behind on rents talk honestly with your landlord and come up with a plan, or don't, and understand you have made your decision with eviction the result.

You're right, you didn't prove my point. You only personify the example of the reactionary I described in my initial point.

You want to focus on blaming neighbors who have woodstoves while ignoring that everything we buy is shipped on ships burning the dirtiest fuel we currently refine, with zero emissions/efficiency standards for the ships that burn it, while we continue to increase annual shipping miles every single year. Better still you seem to have no understanding of annual global shipping emissions, which continue to increase year over year, or interest in changing it. If you did, woodstoves would not have been your chosen rebuttal.

Instead you jump at a comment about woodstoves as your point of contention. You aren't responding based on data, but reacting based on your emotional understanding of something you don't like; woodstoves or wood burners.

How can I make such a projection? Because you only want to react to rightful discounting of the global impact of woodstoves by getting defensive or declaring I am ignorant to their impact.

In the context of environmental impact you're tripping over dollars to point at pennies; A low information reactionary.

Yeah, Maine has already been overrun by them.

We can discuss the per annum increase in air miles, and lack of emissions/efficiency standards on commercial and private jets some other time. They too dwarf any impact that the average North American wood stove reliant resident has on the environment at large.

I do. I also am fully aware that we ignore all the emissions from industrial ocean going shipping around the globe.

Thank you for proving my point.

I mean it is already being overrun by a new wave of well heeled political reactionaries who, while loving their gas guzzlers and showing no comprehension of the greater global drivers of climate change, love to lecture on what we need to do to make ME better for them, and by extension the environment.

So yeah we have/are already being overrun by the Bill Gates brand of eco warrior.

What, fly in a private jet less? Nah that won't make a difference.

Burn wood in a stove to stay warm? Yeah you are fucking killing your unborn great great grandchildren via asphyxiation

How the fuck that guy, who stole Windows and thus billions from others and who paved the way for the antitrust doesn't apply if you get big enough fast enough model, became/was propped up as the beacon of environmental ethics is beyond me.

Bill Gates is just another example of the problem trying to pose as a provider of solutions. Maine is being overrun by that ilk for sure

Require global ocean shipping to evolve beyond running shit fuel with no emissions standards.

But that won't be popular here since it means a group beyond just Republicans is culpable in perpetuating the dynamics that contribute to climate change.

Do you want a car fire? Because this is how you end up with a car on fire

I don't mind, with all the money in politics now. NH used to help give more moderate candidates, of either party, a bump. Nowadays the money overrides the moderating force of the NH primary.

I mean shit, you literally have the opposing party now spending more to get their preferred challenger out of a primary than said challenger could even raise on their own.

The donor class will give us who we are going to get to choose from, and the timing of primaries is now all about appeasing donors in an effort to get them to give/bundle more or to create their own PAC to get in a bidding contest over when their preferred state can be on the primary calendar.

Maybe moving out of the primary spotlight will allow a few more New Hampshirites remember we are neighbors, friends, and family first and partisan operatives promoting a political gang affiliation second.

Part of why it is compartmentalized is to make it easier to address abuse. Personal/sick time can be used with no/little notice.

People burn that time and then get termed for trying to use their vacation time without notice.

Attendance is the easiest way to term a bad employee with cause. Categorizing time off makes the process transparent for all parties including Unemployment Insurance.

Or more appropriately, people hadn't already burned through their 40hrs of sick time and 80hrs of vacation time with 1.5mos left in the year.

It does suck getting fired for attendance since you burned all your time when you weren't sick and now have no time when you are sick.

If it is a documented illness and you aren't a job hopper you qualify for FMLA after a year with an employer as well.

Fact: there are a shit load of job openings in this state with decent pay, full health ins. and investment benefits that also have paid time off.