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Good luck NY drivers....... 'Lives are at stake': Poly-impaired driving a growing concern across Colorado Colorado traffic deaths involving impaired drivers have increased significantly in recent years, including cases in which drivers had more than one impairing substance in their system, the Colorado Department of Transportation said Thursday. In 2021, 691 people were killed on Colorado roads — a 50% increase from 2011. Since 2019, the state has seen a 44% increase in the number of fatal wrecks involving impaired drivers.

I understand how someone can rack up that much debt but if you can't afford it then you should opt for a lower cost option or suck it up. No one needs a graduate degree. I wanted to be a dentist but ended up with a BSEE as there was no way I would be able to afford that much education at that time in my life. Earned a graduate degree in engineering at night when I was financial able to. So my dream career never happened, tough sh!t for me. Life is full of hard choices. I also am tired of the whining and entitlement. I wonder how many of these high debt/high earners pocket the $10K relief and never pay it forward once they are able to? Probably a lot. Why? If you choose a field of study with low earning potential isn't that on you?

Under what circumstances does someone have $150K in college loans? Bachelor and Associate degrees are available for much less than that. If you're taking out loans for that much perhaps you should have chosen a less expensive institution, different curriculum or gone into the trades. That much debt for college loans is a poor choice completely on the borrower.

University of NH is over $30K/year for in-state tuition plus room and board. I have one just graduated and another is a junior. Both kids had some merit aid, but we paid for nearly all of it, will be nearly $200K when all said and done. Drove lesser cars and took lesser vacations since they were born and saved/invested whatever money we could. When they were babies in daycare, we had too many months where our expenses exceeded our income. Didn't matter we kept saving. Didn't have cable and the house we were in we purchased from the bank. I picked up overtime as much as possible and my wife worked weekends in addition to her regular job. The current generation is too lazy and soft to save like that. They couldn't survive without their nice car, smartphone, laptop, streaming services and big screen TV. The government and society is doing these young people a disservice by bailing them out. They will never grow or learn the meaning of money or hard work unless they have to struggle. I have met very successful people, many of them have faced difficulties in their past. From what I've seen, I might say that the greater the struggle, the greater the success of these individuals.

Hundreds of migrants dying in the desert is cruel. The other Death Valley: hundreds of migrants are dying in remote Texas deserts Fifty migrants dying in a truck is cruel. 3 men in custody after deaths of 51 people found in San Antonio truck 5,000 migrants being bussed to a city of 18 million people is an inconvenience.

Remember this nonsense when you blindly follow the climate scientists.

This was an unforced error by the Democrats. IRS agents probably rank in popularity somewhere between lawyers and used car salesmen. I've never been audited but can imagine it's likely as pleasant as being pulled over. The move reinforces the distrust between government and the American people.

What are we supposed to call murderers and rapists? Individuals with difficulties socializing?

Made a boatload in the market. Wife and I were remote so spent nothing on gas or car maintenance. Saved money by taking out rather than eating out. Kids received refunds from college for room and board. Wish the monkeypox would pick-up a little more! On the downside I did gain a few pounds.

I think the legitimate question is "Where have you been over the past 70+ years?" Finland and Sweden chose to remain separate from NATO until they saw Russian as an existential threat. If war had broken out in Europe years ago, would they have been fully committed to NATO members? I don't know but not being full members of NATO allowed them an out. Now they are great allies that want to be members of the alliance. I think that NATO should make them wait (and sweat) a couple of years until they approve their membership.

Over 800,000 votes cast and there were zero proven cases, said the 70-year-old Secretary of State. You believe that, ZERO? How many votes do you think they checked? If the state police said there were zero speeding tickets issued in NH last weekend, you believe no one was speeding, ha ha ha! Please, tell everyone the process by which NH checks for and enforces residency. There is no income tax like other states, so NH generally does not care about residency. Your post is really informative so I'm hoping you can explain that to me and the board. I lose a lot of faith in Bill's office as well when 200 absentee ballots from Bedford were not even opened 1 year after election day. https://whdh.com/news/ag-nearly-200-bedford-nh-absentee-ballots-uncounted-in-2020/ Zero issues with residency voting but they forgot to open 200 absentee ballots.

There were zero double votes that they found clown, how hard do you think they really looked? How about the kids at UNH who can vote with their student ID. They just need to "promise" not to vote in their home state. How many of those promises do you think were kept? My guess is you're another mass-hole transplant.....go home.

So, I see you believe in Santa Clause! Just one example...... In my state we have a large number of people who own vacation homes in NH who are out of state residents. Polling locations verify identity (by picture ID), and that the individual owns the property in town, but towns have no way to check for residency. Because on this, residents of MA with vacation properties in NH have voted in the NH primaries and general election. Unfortunately, there is no linkage between the town data and the state data that verifies residency.

How every election should be conducted.......

It doesn't matter who the democrats run in 2024 or for the next 2 election cycles, it will be a landslide for republicans. The past has a tendency to repeat itself. No one remembers the Carter presidency even though we joke about it over 40 years later. It was a disaster with high inflation, high unemployment, the energy crisis and the Iran hostage crisis. The administration was paralyzed by indecision and their lack of direction made them appear incompetent. The perceived incompetence of the administration haunted democratic candidates for years. Now we have a Biden administration that is following the Carter script. Sure, there are no hostages, but the economic difficulties and high inflation bring into question the president's ability to solve any problem. Carter may not have governed well but he was liked, and no one questioned his intellect or credentials (graduated from the US Naval Academy, businessman, governor of Georgia). Biden has no credentials other than his lifetime tenure as a politician. His intellect was always suspect, now he often appears frail, confused, incoherent and angry. Like the past with Carter, Biden will haunt democratic presidential candidates for a good 10 years. The jokes and videos will surely last longer. Anyone within arm's length of Biden will have Joe's incompetence used against them. The democrats won't recover until the politicians and voters start aging out, forgetting the past.

Your bioengineering degree clearly doesn't apply in this conversation as evidenced by your lack of knowledge on the subject matter. I have chemical engineers that work for me. When I don't understand the subject matter, I try not to sound like an expert, a little career advice for you. Don't care if you are a female, if I was condescending or if I hurt your feelings. I deal with butt hurt engineers all day, one more is nothing to me. I took the liberty of calling you dude and pal because I thought it more polite than what I could have called you. I went to the trouble of documenting the simple costs and difficulties of upgrading the grid only. No generation, no charging stations, no peak demand, no charging throughput during peak transportation hours. Upgrading the grid, transmission and distribution lines would run roughly $1.5-$3.0 trillion dollars. The costs will be less expensive if stretched over a longer period of time as it will help mitigate supply chain difficulties. There is no finagling the supply chain. You buy product at the going rate which is largely dependent on supply and demand. If the product you need is not available, you wait for it or pay a higher price. If the government wants to construct wire and cable factories that's great but it will merely push the bottleneck to the next link in the chain, likely compounds for insulators or raw materials. Public charging stations are an especially difficult subject. What percentage of electric vehicle owners will use home charging versus a station? An 8-pump gas station can service over 30 vehicles an hour, with the capability of taking all vehicles from zero energy storage to full energy storage during that time. How many charging stations would it take to provide the same throughput? Are we talking level 1, 2 or 3 charging stations as the cost is much different between them. Should the cost of the real estate to build a "parking lot" of charging stations be included in the per unit charging station cost? Too many difficult questions on this topic to even take a swag at the cost. Also, can the upgraded grid even handle a surge like this, especially if there is a large concentration of charging stations in a small geographic area? I don't have a good metric of the number of utility workers required as there are many factors involved. Do you hire an equal number of workers across the country and stretch the work over 25 years? Do you hire a smaller number, pay them more and build the grid a geographic region at a time? How do you taper up/down the number of positions required or do you just let all of them go when the work is complete? There is a limited pool of individuals that are willing to become a utility worker. The positions are difficult to fill due to dangerous high voltage lines, heights, physically strenuous, weather and terrible hours. It is the third most dangerous job in the US behind loggers and agricultural workers. Government subsidies can help fill some of these positions, but these are jobs most Americans refuse to do regardless of compensation. R&D is problematic as no one has definitive answers regarding home/station charging, peak demand, charging station density, and charging throughput. It is an issue no one will have an answer to until we get there. Your expectation of a 25-year buildout is overly optimistic. With a limited supply of workers and material, regardless of funding there is a maximum number of miles per day that can be upgraded. If anyone had that information, I would love to see it. Additionally, fission reactors take on average 10 years to build and their use in the US is declining so I would look for another method of generation. From the USEIA... Since you are willing to cut defense spending for this buildout it should be good for the rest of us, correct? Regardless of anyone else's relationship with national defense or loved ones in the armed forces? What about the large number of people who live in an urban area and use public transportation? Should they subsidize this project? What is their benefit? My choice would be to cut social programs. Last year the US spent $2,397 billion on Medicare and welfare, 3X as much as the $754 billion spent on national defense. Maybe some of these eternal freeloaders could get a job or something, no biggie, right? I tried to allude to this in my last post but the only way something like this gets accomplished is through shared sacrifice. Both defense/social cuts and higher taxes for everyone.

I live in NH so everyone in the state has a funny story to tell whether you wanted to be part of it or not. Presidential candidates tend to be like migrating geese, here then gone but on a 4-year cycle. A few experiences that stand out for me.... Met Lamar Alexander at King Cone in Merrimack. He was doing his walk across NH or something. The guy was wearing blue jeans with his trademark red/black flannel shirt, it was 85 degrees and sunny outside. I thought the poor guy was going to pass out. Went to a no-labels event in Manchester a few years ago. Wife and I got there early, a woman greeted us and had us "sit over here". Well, lucky us, we were behind and just to the right of the podium with about 30 cameras facing us. Ended up being on CSPAN for 6 hours that day! In my town the school is shut down on voting days and we vote at the gymnasium. Candidates and supporters congregate about 20 feet from the gym entrance with signs banners and sometimes balloons. The republicans in one group and the democrats in another. Well, I show up with the kids to vote and stop by to speak with people I know in both camps. They are friends, neighbors, teachers, guys from the fire department, just regular folks. Someone (don't remember who) asks me who I'm voting for. I said I don't know and looked down and asked my young daughter who should I vote for (I think my son was on the ground eating dirt at the time)?. She says "whoever cheers loudest" so one group starts cheering and the other does as well not knowing why. About a half dozen little kids are jumping up and down with 15 people cheering and it's 2:00 in the afternoon. Everyone's laughing and I have tears coming down my face now thinking about it......I guess you had to be there!

That's very eloquent but when was the last time we saw anything graceful from either party? Even if this were to proceed perfectly you have a primary challenger(s) running against a sitting president in the same party. Just for trivia sake, when was the last time the challenger was successful? Also, Biden 's job approval rating among democrats (remember who will be voting in the primary) is remarkably at 69%. https://graphics.reuters.com/USA-BIDEN/POLL/nmopagnqapa/ When the challenger(s) start to fall behind (undoubtably it will happen at some point during the primary process) you can bet that grace and eloquence will go out the window.

If Joe wants to run, there is nothing regarding his age anyone is going to do to stop him. Which democrat is going to say to the American people "the president is cognizant enough to run the government now but not cognizant enough to run again in 2024"?

Hunter is how the left gets rid of Joe before 2024.

I've read about that. Feel bad for the good people of CA. Not a fan of the politics there but no one should have to put up with what you folks have to!

Dude not over the next 10 years, $150 billion per year over 10 years might work. Transmission lines cost roughly $1 million/mile to upgrade. There are 200,000 miles of transmission lines in the US. Below is the link for the Oneida County to Albany County upgrade approved last year $845 million for 93 miles, as easy an install as possible as it is rural. New York approves $854M transmission line, outlines path to reach storage, renewables goals Also, there are 5.5 million miles of distribution lines in the US. Upgrade costs of those can run anywhere from $200K-$500K/mile dependent upon location (above ground, underground, urban, rural). All told the upgrade only of these lines (no new lines) add up to anywhere from 1.5-3 trillion dollars. I like the public works idea, maybe turn welfare recipients or illegals into line workers. Can't be difficult work, high voltage, heights, nothing dangerous or anything, ha ha ha. If you spent a billion dollars today to hire line workers guess how many additional line workers you would have in 1 year, zero. It takes roughly 4 years and 7,000 hours of apprenticeship to train a line worker dependent on the state. There is currently a severe shortage of integrated circuits. What has the government done to alleviate it? Nothing. There are shortages of the raw materials you mentioned as well as many others (such as insulations). Even if the materials were widely available (they are not) the wire and cable is manufactured, extruded and jacketed (insulation applied) in a funny place called a factory. Most factories can't keep up with current demand regardless of the raw materials. A grid buildout would only exacerbate this problem and require the construction of additional factories. As far as nanotech geometric superconductors, you've been watching too many Star Wars movies pal. I am an electrical engineer and a Director of Engineering with over 30 years of experience. Nothing you are talking about will be commercialized any time soon if ever. I'm giving you a hard time with my response, but this is exactly what the general public needs to understand. This is exactly what the general public needs to educate themselves in. Upgrading the grid (not even addressing generation) isn't running fiber and some switches. It is a "putting a man on the moon" effort. This endeavor means raising taxes on everyone as well as cutting defense and social programs. If we don't all have the stomach to pay our share, then let's not fool ourselves into starting a half assed effort.

Good for you, still pathetic. What's in nearly all cars still? Lead acid, same as 50 years ago. Ever worked with batteries? That's what I thought.

I hope it amounts to something as battery advancements have been slow....

Quick few questions regarding the grid for everyone so intent on renewables. How many miles of transmission and distribution lines will need to be upgraded to accommodate the increased capacity for electric vehicles? I'll give you a hint, it's in the millions of miles. How much does it cost to upgrade transmission and distribution lines per mile (google the recent lines from Oneida County to Albany County for reference)? Who is going to perform the upgrade (do some research regarding the current inability to maintain the grid due to the shortage of line workers)? Where are we going to get the supplies required for such a buildout when basic wire has extremely long lead times due to supply chain issues? If you can't answer or even understand these questions, then you have no concept of the difficulty in the transition to renewables. Unlike renewable power generation, the grid expansion requires no new technologies. It's the low hanging fruit in all of this and it will take tens of decades to complete if started now in earnest. One last fact to ponder, today 70% of the grid is over 25 years old.