Having to deal with all this snow can make you cranky and little crazy so bear with me while I get another pet peeve off my chest. Every year, just about this time, we hear the same line from Massachusetts state and municipal governments: “Our snow removal budgets are exhausted.” Every year! Perhaps if they didn’t perpetually underfund that line item on their budgets, the funds wouldn’t be exhausted every year. This is New England; it snows here every year. When you’re running out of money every January, you’re doing something wrong.
The problem is that snow removal money is variable. You know how much your liability insurance is going to be, or your payroll, or any of a dozen other items, but how much snow you’re going to get in the next 12 months is completely unpredictable. You could get six inches or 150. So when having to do unpopular things like make budgets, the politicians underfund it, pushing the money to other pet projects and when the money for snow removal runs out50
t is hard to understand why the senator, who is opposed to legal abortion except in the most extreme circumstances, is introducing legislation that will result in anti abortion terms in tacit cooperation with an concern that the bill is not a genuine attempt to alleviate fetal suffering.
Kissling is no dummy. She’s been at this for years and she understands how to manipulate the press for her own ends. I’m afraid this is another example of the same.
