There are a lot of SUVs that have badly focused lights that are pointed too high.

I’m guessing it’s not a “tax”, despite what they told you, but a fee imposed by the restaurant. Somerville has had a bylaw for a while (like a decade or more) banning polystyrene/styrofoam in takeout containers and restaurants. They’ve also since banned plastic straw and stirrers, as well as plastic bags. I don’t know if they’ve fully banned plastic containers yet, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s coming soon. I suspect the restaurant is charging you a “tax” because the other materials for their takeout containers are more expensive.

CVS (and other big brand retail pharmacies) are pretty well known for being very short staffed, and paying under trained employees very poorly to handle your medication. Generally, they suck, but they get your business by brand recognition and being open longer hours. You will have much better service if you can find a local independent pharmacy, as they often have their pharmacists actually on site. Since everything is insurance anyway, the cost of your prescriptions shouldn’t really change, but it is more expensive and less convenient to try shipping while there.

> I graduated from CC with an AS in Accounting and an AS in Business Management. When I went to Bentley, I had to take several courses over again.

But those credits would almost assuredly have transferred to UMass. (I don’t know if that was true in the 90s, but it’s absolutely true today.) If you take classes from one of the state community colleges, any of the state universities of UMass will accept the credits. You’re talking about making policy for community college students because you chose to transfer to a private university that unsurprisingly wanted to maximize their revenue by not accepting (certain) transfer credits.

I love Middlesex Bank, and they’ve been independent since my parent moved here in the early 80s. (But they might not be in your area.)

> Delmar said she saw a couple officers inside a Blaze Pizza nearby and rushed to tell them about the baby.

> "We've been alerted that the missing child may be located over here at the vehicle at 10th and Indiana," an officer is heard saying at about 6:40 p.m. in police radio communications.

That strongly implies that the officers who “found” the kid were the ones reporting their status over the radio, not being told to go to the car via radio.

Yeah, the CNN article was misleading, but it wasn’t false.

> There, outside a Papa John’s in the very plaza where Anderson and Sgt. Richard El had stopped to eat, was the stolen car. Kason was inside. The five-month-old had been missing for nearly three full days, and had likely been alone for most of the time.

All technically true, Just missing a few key sentences in the middle that convey that they looked in the car because 2 women told them to.

I went to college with a girl who insisted that it made sense to call it Pea-Body (“because you find a body in the woods, not a buhDEE in the woods”) and absolutely refused to change because the entire state is Massachusetts was wrong.

I can say the opposite happened to me. I bought a car from family for a very reduced price, but paid sales tax on the value, not the sales price.

Not based on the purchase price, but based on the bluebook value (or perhaps, whichever is larger?). If you buy a car for $1, you still have to pay sales tax based on its value, not just a dollar.

There are some models (2019 and later RAV4 for sure, I’m assuming others as well) that have the default headlight focused significantly higher than is preferable. They’re not turning their lights down, because they’re not using highbeams… It’s just that their regular beams are aimed to focus much farther forward and therefore hit eye level on oncoming traffic. I noticed it on my parents car and thought it was a fluke, until I also experienced it riding in two different friends’ new RAV4’s. One of said friends went to the dealer to get the lights refocused, and the dealer reported that they are seeing a lot of the new model RAV4 coming with the lights like that by default.