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- Tue 21 May 5:48 PMThought Experiment on Keystone Pipeline.
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by mike_cote - Tue 21 May 2:25 PMSen. Barry Finegold plots run for State Treasurer
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by merrimackguy - Tue 21 May 11:34 AMSupport civil legal aid
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by debsilva - Tue 21 May 10:07 AMState audit confirms salary overpayments to DDS provider
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by dave-from-hvad - Mon 20 May 11:57 PMScott Brown released his military records. Why hasn't Gabriel Gomez?
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by seamusromney - Mon 20 May 7:40 PMRIP, Ray Manzarek
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by somervilletom - Mon 20 May 11:00 AMGomez disparages Rep. Markey's years in Congress while using 31-year Congressman McCain to raise funds
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by laurel - Mon 20 May 7:27 AMDear Colleagues, Do you get tired of emails you get from our organization do something about state budget cuts?
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by judy-meredith - Sun 19 May 10:46 PMSo What's Gomez's Position on the Assault Weapons Ban?
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by johnk - Sat 18 May 10:52 PMCitizens First: A Call to Create "Charter" Police and Fire Stations, brought to you by Democrats for Public Safety Reform (DFPSR)
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by columwhyte
- Tue 21 May 5:48 PMThought Experiment on Keystone Pipeline.
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They did dominate the OT. (1 Reply)
So losing in OT would have been a huge disappointment.
It's a good ad. (0 Replies)
Straightforward, honest, uses Gomez’s own words to set forth his position. No inaccuracies that I can spot. Very well done.
Well, (0 Replies)
since he doesn’t, it seems unlikely that anyone else does.
Of course enforcement is spotty, (0 Replies)
because there isn’t a cop around every time someone runs a red light. Do you support cameras at intersections that snap pictures of your license plate as you run a red light, and then mail you a ticket? That’s how you dramatically increase the enforcement rate. That’s an interesting topic for another post.
"Cyclists from across the demographic landscape are out biking — and they are all running red lights." (1 Reply)
That would seem to make my point.
LOL (2 Replies)
Boy, talk about losing the ‘tude. You might consider that yourself, trickle.
My baseline assumption, which pretty much everyone shares, is that cars are required to obey the rules of the road, and should be ticketed when they don’t. And that’s how things generally work. Sure, enforcement could be better, blah blah, but if you’re in a car, you run a red light, and a cop is nearby, odds are quite good you will get pulled over. I didn’t think it necessary to restate that. My point here – which is obviously not universally shared – is that the same should go for cyclists.
If my post made you angry, well, I don’t much care about that. What I do care about is making the roads safer for everyone – motorists, cyclists, pedestrians. My view is that doing so requires stricter enforcement of traffic vis-a-vis cyclists than has generally been the practice thus far; perhaps you disagree. My point about “respect” was a response to the attitude of cyclists like Mr. Kemp who bemoan the lack of “respect” they receive from motorists; I suggested a possible source of that difficulty. How you get from there to a “threat,” I have no idea.
Trust me, (1 Reply)
coming from a driver: you want drivers to respect you. And you don’t want them angry at you.
Traffic laws (2 Replies)
need to be simple. If there’s a red light, you stop. If there’s a stop sign, you stop. Opening them up for judgment calls will just open them up to being contested because the cop and the driver/biker disagree on whether the circumstances were such that it was OK to run the red light or whatever.
Also, bikes running red lights is dangerous for a couple of reasons. First, they can and do hit and seriously injure pedestrians. Second, when (not if) they make a mistake in deciding when it’s safe to run the light, they startle cars who are proceeding legally through the intersection, causing the cars to quickly and unpredictably change direction or slam on the brakes, which of course greatly increases the likelihood of an accident. It’s much, much better for all concerned if bikes just wait for the damn light to change. Waiting for those 30 seconds really can’t be all that bad.
"When I’m on a bike, I’m a lot more like my walking self than my driving self" (1 Reply)
You may behave more like your walking self when you’re biking, but legally, you are more like your driving self. That’s a big part of the problem, IMHO. Maybe your view is that the laws should be adjusted to let cyclists run red lights if, in their judgment, they can do so safely. Personally, I think that would be a truly terrible idea, but YMMV.
"consider that systemic non-compliance with a law by a particular population may be a sign that the law is poorly designed with regard to that group" (1 Reply)
Then again, it may be a sign that the culture of that particular group is to ignore laws that apply to them. Just sayin’.
I'm confused... (1 Reply)
do you want a city-wide vote, or just East Boston? BTW, the notion that a referendum is an automatic win for developers is obviously false.
I agree. (1 Reply)
Brown just ran a closely-watched statewide race. Even though he lost, everyone knows who he is. At this point, hard to see how this poll measures much more than name recognition.
Shep, you're losing it. (0 Replies)
The issue is not the general question whether it’s a good idea to have a historic preservation tax credit – we can debate that another time, but it’s not that interesting. The question is whether Gomez should have gotten a $300K tax break for promising not to do something that he was already legally barred from doing. That, as Andy Hiller concisely explains in his very good report on Channel 7 (see my post from this morning), is what we’re talking about. When you say that Gomez’s “deduction violates NEITHER the letter NOR THE SPIRIT,” I think you are wrong. It certainly violates the spirit, and it may violate the letter.
"Assuming the deduction is proper" (1 Reply)
Yeah, that’s a pretty big assumption, for the reasons dcsohl and others have given. You can’t assume you’re right, and then complain that others disagree with you.
Whatever, folks. (0 Replies)
If all you’re interested in is what’s in the Globe, well, read the Globe. We try to do more than serve as an aggregator for stories published elsewhere; my take on this is that it’s odd that it’s only coming out now. YMMV.
Most people don't like cheaters. (1 Reply)
That’s why Chuck Grassley, as staunch a Republican as any, hated this tax break.
Good advice. Markey needs to move on (1 Reply)
from talking about the People’s Pledge. We get it – Gomez won’t sign it, and that’s bad. I agree, but that is not going to win the election. Markey needs to explain why he is the guy to champion Massachusetts values in the Senate, and why Gomez is out of step. Let’s start hearing about that.
My sentiments exactly. (0 Replies)
Particularly embarrassing, I think, is the performance of Cambridge’s outgoing city manager Robert Healy, who seems to think he has the discretion to refuse an apparently legally-required burial if, in his sole and unreviewable judgment, such a burial might run contrary to his notion of “peace” in Cambridge. Good heavens.
Tamerlan, as bad a guy as he apparently was, is dead. His family should be allowed to bury his remains. Because that’s what we do.
No intel, (0 Replies)
but my gut says he’s in.
That is pretty great. (0 Replies)