We have a line item on our tax bill to support the public library in town. Third rail for local politician getting rid of it.

Sounds like something out of Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories Collection. They made a PBS film out of the title story and called it Phantom of The Open Hearth Furnace.
Jean Shepard wrote in parenthetical statements often where a character speaks and then their thoughts are expressed. One of my favorite of his lines is relative to a post-prom gathering at a local watering hole. I ordered a bourbon I said "Make it a triple" I had heard the old man order this I thought it was a brand name.

I was a kid in the mid to late 60s my father turned me on to Jean Shepard on WOR 710 AM. Every night Mon-Fri at 10:15. 45 minutes of him talking and storytelling about life in the depression, a stint in the army, kazoo playing, and just general politics. It was just him talking into the mike. The guy was a brilliant storyteller, Garrison Keeler certainly was influenced by him. I would sit with my little AM radio up on my pillow in my room. Mom wasn't happy that I was still awake and dad would say leave him alone its educational.

Was the summer story based around Ludlow Kissel and the Dago Bomb that Struck Back?

my first license was on something like brown-red safety paper, print from a daisy wheel printer, no photo, no lamination. Kind of like a wallet size auto title. Well into the 80s like this if I recall correctly.

picture?

I can't imagine a selling agent not advising sellers to get this done. It's a huge risk and definitely a deal breaker for a home sale.

It is a state issue with local town permitting issues around actual work.

The original comment states right turn on red is illegal in NY . It’s isn’t in most of NY state.

Illegal in NYC not the whole state.

I haven't been to any of the sites since my son was in elementary school. The HQ is in Morristown proper and there is a house called Schuyler Hamilton house where Hamilton met Elizabeth Schuyler his wife. The owner's apparently set them up.

The winter in Morristown was just about every bit as miserable as the more famous one at Valley Forge. Feet of snow in Jockey Hollow area.

If they process the document centrally and mail it to you then any office should be able to conduct the transaction. Going to a license center that then sends you a document printed at a remote location doesn’t make any sense.

Seals , whales in the harbor around the Verrazano Bridge amazing what enforcing environmental laws can do.

You are allowed to move to a safe place in the vicinity of the accident. These cops are dicks

Ragtime by EL Doctrow has a fictionalization of this incident. Was she also the model for St Gaudens Diana which had been at the second iteration of Madison Square Garden?

I work in one of those industries and we are making record profit dollars but paying record prices for raw materials. All of our price increases are just to maintain the margin percentage. Our margins this year are within a tenth or two of a percent of our historical margin percent. There is still competition for business.

Aside from bloated salaries biggest costs are for what maintenance and fuel? Diesel is still really high, the cost of everything steel is very high, paint for the bridges etc is over the top expensive right now. I could see making a case but first they should be doing some trimming of fat.

Distracting signs to fight distracted driving. Makes sense

our county ballots are laid out more like an outline with the office as the header and all the candidates for the office under it with their party affiliation. Requires conscious effort to vote for a candidate for office.

That is a horribly deigned ballot though it emphasizes party over the office. It’s designed so you don’t need to think or read and just go down the party line. Designed by machine politicians to benefit the machine.

Yeah many reptile species sex seems to depend on temperature during incubation in the nest.

The 1938 Long Island Express Hurricane , destroyed the boardwalk in AC , then wiped out towns like West Hampton Beach on LongIsland, cut the Shinnecock Inlet and then wiped out the beach towns of Rhode Island. About 700 people died . So the Northeast has seen two catastrophic hurricanes separated by 80 years . I think we will be ok for awhile

Have you looked at the price of lumber and other building products? My insurance company now says the value to rebuild my house is over 600k up from 400k five years ago, thus higher premiums.

No just no