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Travel ban remains in effect in eastern Massachusetts
By adamg on Tue, 01/27/2015 - 12:36pm
Gov. Baker, now clad in a more appropriate pullover, says the ban is being lifted in the western part of the state, except for the turnpike, but that those of us easta Worcester need to stay off the roads.
State Police report issuing several citations for people ignoring the ban, but add they have yet to have to arrest anybody.
A member of the crack Boston media asked the governor about his changeover from a suit to something more casual. He replied:
Today is a snow day! I am dressed for a snow day.
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A reporter just asked him...
is he sleeping at home tonight.
That was no reporter
That was Jon Keller - the Helen Thomas of the local media, who always gets the first question at press conferences.
That wasn't even Keller's
That wasn't even Keller's first question.
Baker wrapped up his opening remarks with a bit about how decisions about tomorrow and reopening the T were a work in progress and he would have something on that for us at the 5 PM briefing, then opened the floor to questions. Keller jumped right in with something like: "Mr. Governor, what about reopening the T?"
Meathead.
Whoever spoke after Keller did much to redeem actual journalists - got Baker to clear up his remarks on the travel ban. The way Baker had first said it came across as - ban lifted in western counties, eastern counties I-90 still closed, nothing about the rest of the roads in the eastern half of the state. The reporter had understood his actual meaning much better, which was "ban lifted in western counties except I-90; all state roads still under ban in eastern half"
John Keller
Keller used to annoy me also, but I've warmed up to him in recent years for some reason. Maybe from watching him on "Beat the Press". I also just found out he's a big Bob Dylan fan (he mentioned it on the show), which raises his standing immensely in my eyes.
Re: Jon Keller
I'm not a big fan of Jon Keller either, going back to the 90s when he was an occasional sidekick to David Brudnoy on WBZ radio. Still, I appreciate that he has those even more liberal than he in fits after declaring on Friday's Beat the Press that last year was not the hottest year on record. Check out the comments!
That's because he was wrong
The data are in and settled. Saying otheriwise is just ignorant.
Ban lifted in Western MA
Hi Adam:
Enjoying your coverage of the storm....but I think you meant that the ban is being "lifted" not "left" in Western MA.
'says the ban is being left in the western part of the state'
Yep!
Sorry, and thanks. Fixed.
Governor's space saver
Please, people in Bakers
Please, people in Bakers Essex county don't use chairs as space savers, they have their servants stand in the parking space to save it.
Ah yes!
Even those well heeled Essex Co. immigrants in Lawrence, Haverhill and Beverly have their staff stand outside guarding spaces.
Lawrence, Haverill and
Lawrence, Haverill and Beverly are certainly not Baker's Essex county. Swampscott, Nahant, Rockport and Newburyport are more to Charles liking.
Beverly
Beverly Farms and Pride's Crossing sure feel like "1%" neighborhoods to me.
I am liking Baker more than I
I am liking Baker more than I thought I would, which was not very much.
Someone asked him at yesterday's press conference if he thought the ferocity of the storm was due to climate change, I was impressed that he answered with something other than "that's a ridiculous question."
Of the top ten all time storms ...
Five are in the last eighteen years, and seven are in the last 40 years.
Note that the current one has already made the list and it isn't quite done yet: http://www.wbur.org/2015/01/26/boston-biggest-snowstorms
Sure, had the reporter asked
Sure, had the reporter asked if aggregated storm events are consistent with climate change it would have been a coherent if still ill-timed question. But asking about any particular storm is less than clueful.
It was a ridiculous question
Swirls, you are a scientist. Me, my background is "social science" (degrees in political science and history) so sure, anything can be spun. But surely, you have to admit that if we were to go on greatest storms for a single data point, climate change can be disproved. In the past 45 years, there have only been 2 storms (though this one might make three) whose totals top the storm of Feb 24-27, 1969. Surely, things have gotten better since man has walked on the moon, and more importantly, China has begun industrializing.
I'm not going to say that the world is not warming. I'm not going to say that man has played no part in the warming. But I consider myself a skeptic since the anecdotes presented end up looking bad. Remember the 2003 heat wave in Europe that killed tens of thousands. People said climate change then, but the past 10 summers have not been as bad. Did we fix things? No.
Charlie Baker's job is to handle things like blizzards. Let's leave climate change to the scientists. That data collected from numerous data points verify what a lot of climate scientists say is a lot more important than what any state's governor thinks.
Ban is unconstitutional.
Baker should be ashamed. Conservatives will remember.
http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/insights_law_soc...
Of course you uhub libs don't care or just laugh it off.
Yeah!!! We Uhub libs!!!!!
Obviously an anon who is really upset that the Herald is now on the Facebook comment system!
You're welcome to walk or
You're welcome to walk or snowmobile or ride a horse to wherever the heck you'd like to go. Stay off the roads though.
or cross-country ski, or ride a bicycle
I saw quite a few people doing each of these things this afternoon. (I'm staying off the bike, myself. Ice scares me.)
Did you even read what you
Did you even read what you linked to? An important part of it doesn't support your argument at all. Travel can be subject to some control.
'Quote 3
Justice Robert Jackson, concurring opinion in Edward v. California (1941):
... The right of the citizen to migrate from state to state ... is not, however, an unlimited one. In addition to being subject to all constitutional limitations imposed by the federal government, such citizen is subject to some control by state governments. He may not, if a fugitive from justice, claim freedom to migrate unmolested, nor may he endanger others by carrying contagion about. These causes, and perhaps others that do not occur to me now, warrant any public authority in stopping a man where it finds him and arresting his progress across a state line quite as much as from place to place within the state.'
Normal people will remember too.
If you think you're so important that your right to clog the roads when the plows and linemen are at work is a matter of constitutional law, don't expect people to vote your way.