Has anybody on the list installed a bat house? Did you get bats? What species?
John Carr
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The Middlesex County DA's office announced that four Rhode Island men
have been arrested for a series of burglaries including one in Lincoln
last year.
https://lincolnsquirrel.com/2023/07/house-and-car-break-ins-seen-in-lincoln-and-other-towns/
Kennedy -and I am confident that level of stellar
>> professionalism will continue.
>> Thank you to that department and to all who serve us.
>> Sara Mattes
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>> Sara Mattes
>> > On Dec 29, 2023, at 6:17 PM, John F. Car
There are two types of enforcement in America – revenue based, and to
grease squeaky wheels. My sense is Lincoln has the second kind.
America basically doesn't do data-driven enforcement based on accident
counts and causes, which is one reason traffic enforcement doesn't
affect safety. Police go
the assessment doesn't change until the 30
> units are built. Sure it has more potential value, and someone may pay more
> for it than before the zoning change, but it won't change your actual
> assessment or tax bill.
> Diana
>
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 6:25 PM John F. Carr
My understanding is that pet insurance is at the end state of the so-called
"insurance death spiral". Here is an exerpt from an interview with MIT economist
Amy Finkelstein promoting her recent book _Risky Business_:
"...if you look at the market for pet health insurance, which has been
growing
I don't think this statement is accurate:
"Properties are assessed based on their current use, not on future
possible use."
Quoting from a Massachusetts guide for property assessors:
"Fair cash valuation is based on the highest and best use of the land, which
should reflect the applicable
Table 5 of the traffic report shows intersection delays.
For example, in 2020 about one car a minute made it
through the southbound stop sign on Codman Road
during rush hour. The volume and delay at this intersection
may already exceed the threshold for a traffic signal.
Lincoln Road capacity is
There was an important assumption in the spreadsheet attached to the quoted
message
that voters need to think about when deciding what sort of community
Lincoln is.
The spreadsheet assumed a ratio of 1 new school age child per $600,000
value of
new construction. That could be right, or it could
The Attorney General's threats should not influence town voters. A
court case would
take years to produce a final result. No developer is going to break
ground on a project
that has a 50-50 chance of being ordered demolished.
I don't take the threat seriously anyway. The law specifies the
Lincoln as a town should not have a foreign policy, not even a morally
sound one that no person could possibly disagree with. Not even one
that I would approve of if it came out of the State Department. Our
local government's job is to manage the town, not to proclaim right
and wrong or
This is not the first time I've heard lost state funding for the school
mentioned as a reason to move quickly on the new building project.
My understanding is there is no state funding at stake now.
I will vote to kick the can down the road. I don't want a white elephant.
If the cost will
For larger projects it is traditional for the project proponent to hire
an engineer to say traffic will be great and the project opponent to
hire a different engineer to say traffic will be awful. Personally I
don't care enough to chip in to hire an anti-rezoning engineer.
The conclusion of the
Strict traffic law enforcement is very unpopular with voters. Our
social contract these past 50 years or more says people get to demand
all the traffic rules they want, because nobody wants to be against
"safety", on the condition that the rules are not enforced. Speed
cameras are a great
The Minnesota Wildflowers site remarks "Not to be confused with the
several non-native hawkweeds, H. umbellatum has leafier stems up to
the flower cluster and the only hawkweed with lance-elliptic leaves
with roughly hairy, sharp toothed edges. Sometimes this species also
goes by H. canadense,
Lincoln already has speed bumps that are unsafe at any speed.
Lincoln's public school is on a side street isolated from through traffic.
None of Lincoln's intersections has a remarkable accident rate.
There is only one traffic signal under town control. It is probably
due for an upgrade. The
As somebody who doesn't mow, I find this series of "no mow May"
promotions wildly optimistic. You do not sleep in one weekend and
look out to see Julie Andrews dancing across your lawn. You see
slightly longer grass. The Washington Post had a good story on the
subject recently.
This part reminds me that the federal government is discontinuing the
"share the road" word sign because research found nobody knows what it
means.
> Q: If I’m biking, am I allowed to ride two abreast?
>
> Yes, cyclists can ride side by side in Massachusetts but should ride single
> file if
This story is published a few times a year with the details changed.
It's a perennial like "people will drive around holiday time". A lot
of it does not apply to Massachusetts, more to the South with its wide
pedestrian-eating boulevards that turn a daily stroll into a game of
Frogger.
Part of
I just skimmed over the 2015 report which is the foundation for what
we are discussing.
That report tried to steer people away from the Lincoln Station area.
One of the six options was to build on the commuter rail parking lot
and include an underground parking garage (the most expensive kind of
Those tables where people sometimes play chess in Harvard Square only
exist as part of an ecosystem that is everything the Select Board,
police department, and Planning Board fight so hard to keep Lincoln
from turning into. Many thousands of people pass through the square
in a day, more than live
Before dreaming about a ride service you should study ADA regulations,
and the Rehabilitation Act and any comparable state laws. Some of
these are enforced by private lawsuits and winning plaintiffs get
attorney's fees.
You can't just stuff old people in any old car as a town service. You
Other plants are certainly doing better than my light brown lawn grass
and dark brown clover, but the happiest plants of all are wild carrot
(a non-native biennial).
Of the native plants on and at the edges of my yard:
Snakeroot -- upper leaves are withering and I'm not expecting many
flowers
If you do decide on solar, I recommend not going with the presenter
Great Sky Solar. We chose them in 2019 and they still haven't
resolved all our problems. They are not scammers but I think they are
in over their heads.
They told us installation involved about a seven week process of
planning
Lincoln is a "quiet zone" where trains do not normally blow horns.
That is a privilege granted when railroad crossings have been upgraded
above minimum safety standards. The South Great Road crossing was
upgraded to four quadrant gates and a median curb around 2010.
If the grade crossing is not
This is an example of a more general phenomenon. Bad drivers do things that
rule-makers disapprove of, but breaking the rules is not what makes them bad
drivers. For example, cell phone use while driving has been found to be an
effect rather than a cause.
I have no difficulty walking along Page
And when your bread runs out, you can eat cake. Lincoln is the land
of millionaires in their mansions lecturing the world on inequality
and "green" living.
I chose solar panels instead of a backup generator. Solar is supposed
to be greener, but my panels do not generate enough power for cooking
Can anybody recommend a shop that you have had fix your "vintage"
tube-based audio equipment and been satisfied with?
I have a 55 year old McIntosh audio system that needs repair. Amp,
preamp, and tuner. 30 years ago you could send it to Binghamton but
apparently they don't fix them in house any
One does not achieve diversity and all that by the ritual chants of
slogans at meetings. One achieves diversity by allowing diverse
people to live here. If that is a goal we need lower priced housing
in a convenient place. The new zoning district would be within
walking distance of a good
I was about to email with the same question. I noticed the
downward-facing needles tend to brown more than upward-facing needles.
In addition to the common native white pines, an ornamental Japanese
umbrella pine is also affected.
A half mile away the pines all seem healthy.
On 10/14/21, Carol
When reporting Uber experiences it matters whether the requested ride
was during the governor's declared state of emergency. Price controls
during the pandemic caused a shortage of drivers. The Boston Globe
had some articles on this effect.
On 8/2/21, Dan Paul wrote:
> We had a terrible
The book _The Dorito Effect_
(https://www.markschatzker.com/doritoeffect-home-page/) discusses the
change in chicken farming after WW2 when the industry decided to
optimize maximum pounds of meat per pound of feed in the shortest
possible time. American consumers are impressed by size, by pounds
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