I have a friend from Damascus who can never go back, this place brought him to tears.

On of the conditions demanded by PawSox ownership what that the taxpayers subsidize a billionaire's already successful business. Now Worcester's homeowners get to pay that.

Frah-jee-lay? Must be Italian!

Look at the Seaport District in Boston. Just 20 years ago, it too was just a wasteland full of parking lots. Then as Boston real estate prices soared, it made sense to develop there. Now it's full of residential units, offices, restaurants, night life. East Cambridge went through a similar transformation. It's not my cup of tea- I find it soulless, but it increased the amount of available housing (relieving pressure elsewhere) and increased the city's tax base. The same can be done here with the Jewelry District and other I-195 parcels.

Mazz used to be an actually knowledgeable baseball writer. He gets a vote for who enters the Hall of Fame. I don't know if radio broke him, or maybe he's always been an idiot and radio lets that come to the forefront.

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Charlton traffic in that section of Route 20 is going to be a shit-show when the Amazon fortress is completed.

Welcome to Boston, where the "broker fee" is a time-honored tradition. Waaay back in 2001, a friend of mine was moving out of her apartment at the same time I was looking for one. I ended up paying one months' "broker fee" and all the broker did is literally hand me the key.

When my lease was up, my landlord (I think he owned a bunch of apartments) tried to sue me for not returning the keys to the broker.

You didn't get scammed any more than anyone else who rents in the city. If anything you should look at all paperwork and check to see if the "written notice" was there in 5-point text.

Years. Soon after they closed it, they had a design proposal prepared that was actually pretty nice: high level platforms for the entire station, a place to be covered from the elements, accessibility improvements, better access for busses, etc. As far as I know, nothing has made it beyond the design process.

I cynically believe they're just waiting for the right blend of ice, wind, and rust to finally collapse the existing structure so they can get an excuse to haul it all away.

Those JWU students are no longer clogging up other city apartments; sounds like a win all around. Unless they're getting government handouts, if some developer builds a tower and can't sell the apartments, that's their problem, not ours. I suspect anyone willing to plow millions of dollars into something like this will have thought of that ahead of time.

The Moscow subway system has some beautiful architecture.

"Rhode Island has dedicated $221 million of the $1.1 billion in “American Rescue Plan Act” (ARPA) State Fiscal Recovery funds it received toward affordable housing and homelessness prevention in its fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget. The investment builds on an initial allocation of $29 million for housing that was approved by state lawmakers in January 2022, bringing Rhode Island’s total investment to $250 million, or nearly one-quarter of the state’s ARPA allocation." -- National Low Income Housing Coalition

I wonder where that money is going.

40 degree weather in Nov/Dec: sucks. 40 degree weather in March: time for shorts and T-shirts.

People who would vote for progressives are instead voting for who the Democratic party tells them to?

Gillette Stadium is too big for the Revs. It's empty and cavernous. The new stadium will be much more appropriately sized for the crowd that will go to the matches; it will feel a lot more full and lively.

Not many of us make the kind of mistakes that end up with a criminal record. It's not like this was a stupid one time event like a fight or a stolen car.

Chalk that up to the city council. Elorza may not be the greatest, but the city council is so dysfunctional.

Here's one of the sites that shows which ships are in port, which have recently left, etc.

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> Notice it doesn't go through the east side?

It follows the already-established railroad tracks from the Pawtucket border to downtown Providence. What alignment through the East Side would have made better sense?

Looking at the current maps, it does look like the little neighborhood around Charles and Randall St. could have been spared if they continued to route I95 on the other side of the post office, to keep it more closely aligned with the train tracks there.

There are still places where you can see where parts of the connecting roads are still visible. Like at the 93/128 interchange, and the 3/128 interchange in Burlington, and the offramps to nowhere on the elevated highway north of Boston.

We've got these in Rhode Island, like at the eastern side of the Henderson Bridge, and the Rte 1/138 interchange.

You do you, my man. All I'm saying is that in exchange for being prepared for an emergency in this way, you should bear the responsibility if things get out of your control.

I'm generally pro-2A, and I don't care if you want to sleep with a loaded gun under your pillow with your arms around a warm AR-15 if that's what you're into, that's your right. But the right to be in control of a device that is intended to kill others ("save your life", as you say, since when you shoot someone you don't have any control if they live or die), implies that you should also have the responsibility to not let that firearm into the hands of someone who could use it to harm themselves or others. Like a 7 year old. Or a thief. And that having that responsibility means you should face consequences for letting that happen. So if you don't want to lock your shit up, it's on you if it goes missing and causes harm.

I enjoy shooting, but I don't own my own guns because I don't want to bear that responsibility. If you do, that's great, but you should pay the consequences if you fuck up.

Make sure you pack extra water and survival rations in case you get stranded on your journey.

This being Massachusetts, does he mean Catholic or ...?

These types of events are almost always a shit-show: pay a bunch of money to stand in long lines full of other people who are pissed off at having spent a bunch of money to stand in a long line.