If you’re going to make bus lines in the city free, those are probably good ones ones to go with.

The problem is:

• was that a good use of Federal money for COVID relief?

• what do you do next year when the funds are dry?

• is the commuter rail the best place to start serving the economically disadvantaged?

A pillar of her mayoral campaign was “Free MBTA Fares” as a means of social and economic equity.

So far she’s:

• Spent $8M in Federal COVID relief funds to make three bus routes free for two years.

• Is now trying to make the a commuter rail stop cheaper for its affluent riders.

Maybe it’s not hilarious but it’s pretty funny.

> Readville and Lynn share one thing in common: They both have MBTA commuter rail stations that are about 9 miles from the downtown Boston terminal.

And because the distance is the same, so are the fares: A one-way trip from Readville to South Station costs $7. Same for Lynn to North Station (normally anyway — at the moment the Lynn station is closed for repairs).

>But the two places differ socioeconomically: In the ZIP code that includes Readville and Hyde Park, the median household income is $81,859, according to the Census. In the city of Lynn, the median income is $64,986, and in the ZIP code of the station itself, the median income’s only $24,207. About 30 percent of households in Lynn and 46 percent in the station’s ZIP code receive food stamps; the number in Readville’s ZIP code is 22 percent.

>And so, in the name of equity, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu submitted legislation this month that would cut fares in … Readville

This is actually hilarious.

>“Helicopter parents!” >“Be accountable for your kids!” >“Let kids be kids!”

…who are you quoting?

Are they in the room with us right now?

>Wouldn’t it just be easier if children couldn’t get guns?

Your idea of Utopia is one where Boston youth:

• Stab three other kids after school in a park.

• Attack other teens unprovoked and smash bus windows with a brick.

Or my maybe simply

• Harass, Rob, and Beat a Man on the Train

(That’s just in the last ten days.)

Not everyone is lucky enough to have a stay at home parent. And if we need more after school activities, jobs, funding, etc then that’s something we can address.

But kids already can’t get guns.

Maybe we figure out a way to stop them from seeking them.

>Teenage boys are stupid, have always been stupid, will always be stupid.

If left to their own devices? Sure. So are adults.

Start holding parents accountable and watch how smart teenagers can become.

The state keeps adding revenue streams but infrastructure keeps getting worse.

Lynn is rad but the coast stinks to high hell in the summer.

West Lynn Creamery closing has helped but they still have an open air treatment plant off the Lynnway and near sentient red tide algae blooms come late August (and now creeping into July)

Show me on this doll where the comment hurt you.

Painting one room will always be unreasonably expensive because you’re paying for a 1-2 man painting crew’s entire day.

It’s not like they punch out and you don’t pay them while they wait for the primer or first coat to dry a bit, and they can’t just move on to another room.

It’s also rare to have such a small sized job so they can’t just jump to another small job and come back (you wouldn’t want them to anyway).

What you’re paying for if they’re pretty decent painters but on the low end is is probably $35/hr. is 2x 8hrs x $35 = $560 for a crew of two for the day.

Paint has gotten absurdly expensive too.

So based on your dimensions and assuming 8’-0” walls, one door and two windows and trim at the base and frames - about 3 gallons of primer and depending on your trim color, 3-4 gallons of paint.

Call it $50 for Primer and $200 for Paint.

Add 20% markup for them having to get the paint, and another $100 in overhead charges to cover their supplies, etc, and you’re at $560+$300+$100

So that seems fair.

My advice is (if you can afford it, I know you’re expecting) think about having another room painted, you’d probably just be paying another $250-300 in materials.

Economy of scale only works to a point.

Two rooms for $1500 doesn’t in any way mean it’s going to cost $750 for one room.

Not for nothing but there were MAGA protestors in Swampscott constantly harassing Baker during COVID.

I don’t know where those hillbilly’s came from, how they got their menagerie of Trump flags, or what they thought they were trying to accomplish, but I can imagine Baker just saying “this isn’t worth it” pretty quickly after that.

They had one of the most liked governors in the country and tried to pass the torch to Diehl, which was like when NBC tried to spin off Friends into Joey.

Except Matt LeBlanc would probably have been a better governor.

>Owning property doesn’t mean that you can afford to live / work there without having a viable income.

Eliminating the single largest overhead expense has a huge impact on what “viable” means.

You can survive on a lot less when it’s a family business and the building could be paid for, or at least secured via mortgage.

There’s a 5:30 in the morning too.

They also own the building.

I don’t think you’re far off, some of mine are just for the sake of being different:

Sam - a former Red Sox pitcher, would absolutely live in the Seaport.

Dianne would live on Beacon Hill.

Carla would live in Hyde Park but tell everyone “it’s Readville” (it’s not).

Norm would live in Dorchester but like, the Polish Triangle in an Irish battleship.

Cliff would be Roslindale.

Coach would be holding fast in Jamaica Plain and absolutely despise it.

Woody would be Charlestown but near the monument but pretend like he’s from the projects.

Nick would live in Eastie and also hate it.

Bonus - Fraser would live in Cambridge.

I did.

It’s absurd.

> But Campbell did not finish in the top two in the preliminary election in September and advance to the final election in November. She did not get what she needed: strong turnout in Black Dorchester and Roxbury and Mattapan, neighborhoods she was promising to elevate.

Roxbury and Mattapapan are overwhelmingly black and overwhelmingly voted for Wu.

Campbell thinks that those black voters aren’t representative of the whole?

“Is it my campaign? No, the constituents are wrong!”

This is like the red wave FoxNews talked about.

> An analysis for Ideas by Murmuration, a nonprofit that focuses on building data-driven political and advocacy campaigns, found that roughly 30 percent of white Boston voters cast ballots in Boston’s 2021 mayoral preliminary, but only 25 percent of Black voters and 14 percent of Latino voters participated.

White and Latino voters didn’t vote for a white or Latino candidate but black ones are obligated to vote for black candidates, especially when they pander.

Stupid, and offensive.

The whole assumption is that “black voters will vote for a black candidate” is comically racist.

Roxbury and Mattapan are overwhelmingly African American, and low turnout or not, overwhelmingly voted for Michelle Wu over Essaibi-George, who’s African American.

To think we somehow haven’t made progress because we haven’t specifically elected an African American mayor would be hilarious if it didn’t have soo much traction.

Massachusetts as a whole, which is decidedly less liberal than Boston alone, elected a black governor and overwhelmingly voted for a black president… twice.

But let’s worry about what bingo squares we haven’t crossed out yet in every elected office.

Have you gotten a second opinion?

Changing your insurance before changing your dentist is kind of wild.

> One of the two took out a knife or box cutter and slashed the victim twice.

> The suspected slasher and another person who was with him fled — police didn't say whether they'd been taken into custody.

Top notch police work.

“We’re gonna build a wall and make the Mermaids pay for it.”

It didn’t used to happen semi regularly.

It’s starting to.

Per my other comment, there were more high tide flooding days from 2010-2020 than there were in the prior forty five years.

Ahhh yes.

All of our subways, highways, and low lying neighborhoods will be flooded, underground utilities like gas, sewer, and water mains will be submerged at high tide and unable to be accessed/repaired, but as long as the literal steps to the State House are dry, “everything is fine.”

It’s not “whether it happened” it’s how frequently.

Boston had more high tide tide flooding days between 2010 and 2020 than it had in the previous forty five years.