Happy New Year everyone! I invite you to use this thread to reflect on 2014 and look forward to 2015. What were the biggest stories, surprises, winners/losers, best/worst, etc. for 2014? What plans, predictions, or resolutions do you have for 2015? How does the reality of 2015 compare to how this year was portrayed in Back To The Future, Part II (I for one am glad the two-necktie trend never caught on!)? Here’s wishing health and happiness to you and yours.
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Pats beat Packers 21-17 in the Super Bowl
Walsh loses support from minorities while De Blasio loses support from whites
Emmanuel gets to a runoff but narrowly wins, loses some council allies and won’t go further than Mayor in his career.
Synod on Family allows a same sex rite short of marriage, relaxes annulment rules, and changes the contraception rule phrasing to an ideal to follow rather than a prohibition.
I relocate to MA (fingers crossed for me folks!)
watching National Grid’s Basic Service Rate jump from .08/kWh to .16/kWh. I have so many questions and I’m determined to find answers. How do they go about making the purchase anyway? I do know that National Grid received approval for a 37% rate hike. That was already extremely high. How did it turn into a 100% rate hike? Try calling any government agency about this and they will tell you to call someone else. No one seems to be in charge? I want to know how the whole process works. I want to know how the providers are selected. I want to know how deregulation has benefited us. Doesn’t look like it has at all. Basic service was .04 kWh just 15 years ago.
Will it be a weather event, a Hurricane Sandy? Will it be a structural event, the collapse of a major infrastructure system? Political? A (insert name here) Gate?
Hillary? She either takes it all, fast and furious or she fades away. But then who?
The unsettling thing is that it is more than likely something unexpected (Boston Marathon) but the reassuring thing is that we’ll get through it (Boston Marathon).