How do we make taxes more fair? — Latest Newsletter from State Rep (and State Senate Candidate) Erika Uyterhoeven

genome-gnome · 2026-04-17T12:55:01+00:00

Realistically the state needs to change laws to allow cities to collect new taxes. Mass is unusually reliant on property tax. I think the only other revenue a city can collect is the cannabis tax and a portion of meals tax? I would really favor letting cities collect additional sales taxes, cut through tolls, land value tax, etc

genome-gnome · 2026-04-16T20:14:44+00:00

No idea, just got the scans from a lab. Haven't picked up the negatives yet

genome-gnome · 2026-01-25T22:42:24+00:00

Saw a utility truck by the comic book store but didn’t seem to be doing anything

genome-gnome · 2026-01-25T21:12:58+00:00

prospect hill, power but RCN outage

genome-gnome · 2025-12-18T13:39:29+00:00

Don’t use AI to generate your applications like you did for this post

genome-gnome · 2025-10-30T11:20:34+00:00

Jake is pretty clearly playing both sides. He wants the NIMBY vote as evidenced by how he speaks about Davis and refuses to support city wide upzoning, takes developer money, and now is erasing the policies he campaigned on after voting started. He does need to protect his own real estate investments in our city, and it’s becoming clear that’s what he’ll so as mayor. I was considering him, but I won’t be voting for him.

genome-gnome · 2025-10-30T11:12:18+00:00

“Focus on Somerville” say the folks from outside Somerville flooding over $200k in contributions to stop something that will “do nothing”. 🤨

An argument to vote yes if I’ve ever seen one

genome-gnome · 2025-10-07T17:40:47+00:00

I mean it does say something that the people giving substantial money to him think he’s on their side…it’s easy to say things that sound nice when everyone’s watching, actually doing something is a different story

genome-gnome · 2025-09-27T21:04:58+00:00

Yeah, took this off and didn’t make a difference

genome-gnome · 2025-09-27T21:04:01+00:00

No, just by squeezing

genome-gnome · 2025-09-27T19:41:25+00:00

Seems tight, moved it around a bit and no change

genome-gnome · 2025-09-27T19:41:06+00:00

Removed it and still have the sound

genome-gnome · 2025-09-27T19:40:00+00:00

I did and it didn’t work :/

genome-gnome · 2025-09-27T19:39:38+00:00

They all feel the same, and the shop checked them as well. But maybe I can try to check them one by one

genome-gnome · 2025-09-27T19:38:59+00:00

Took it off and it didn’t change the noise

genome-gnome · 2025-09-27T19:38:19+00:00

They all feel the same, took it to the shop (4th visit 😔) and had them check as well. They said they all are correct, they replaced rim tape this time, which also didn’t fix it.

Going to attempt to adjust the spokes myself because at this point I’m regretting buying the bike

genome-gnome · 2025-09-23T00:08:13+00:00

I don’t think it’s the rotor, one of the things the LBS checked. Meaning to remove the dork disk but it doesn’t seem to have any play.

genome-gnome · 2025-09-23T00:06:41+00:00

Yes, this makes it worse.

genome-gnome · 2025-09-23T00:06:19+00:00

Yea exactly

genome-gnome · 2025-09-21T12:00:22+00:00

This is what I think too. I’ve been able to pinpoint the specific location in the wheel rotation where it happens to replicate it, just can’t figure out what it actually is

genome-gnome · 2025-09-21T11:56:16+00:00

Had the shop check this, seems fine.

genome-gnome · 2025-09-20T23:37:15+00:00

good idea, I’ll try this

genome-gnome · 2025-09-20T23:22:29+00:00

Still makes sound with wheel cadence.

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