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royiv

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  1. Very, very true in the eastern part of the state. Not nearly as much in Boise proper.
  2. Short article.
  3. Boise is considered semi-arid. I love the weather there. Four distinct seasons and winters are pleasant with some snow and cold weather, but nothing completely miserable. They get about 1/3 of the annual snowfall that Denver does. If you think you might be interested in Billings, I would add Bozeman to the list. Billings is pretty meh in my book, although it has gotten a little better over the past couple of years. Billing is more industrial/blue collar while Bozeman is much more scenic and has the amenities of a university town.
  4. Boise is a cool city. Get outside of the city proper and further afield and it gets cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs really fast. Also, why keep the place in Texas for Dec-Feb? Boise winters are pretty mild. Definitely milder than Denver.
  5. That was definitely the case in the past, but I think that Austin, and all of the large blue cities, are not going to attract new residents like they once did as Texas continues to align itself with the MAGA agenda. We’re already seeing it on this board with lots of examples of kids going out of state for school with no plan of returning. Professionally, it has become a lot more difficult for me to recruit physicians to Texas when it was super easy in the past.
  6. Thoughts and prayers for ana in his time of mourning. Winner.
  7. CoreCivic and GEO Group are salivating at the prospect of these detention camps. Would love to know how much money they funneled to the Trump campaign between the two of them.
  8. From the article, this is one of the biggest kicks to the nuts. As a state, we’re turning away Federal money that we’re already paying into the system via federal taxes.
  9. This one was mentioned in a CultureMap Houston article today about Esquire’s best new restaurants list. On one hand, I’m intrigued and on the other I’m skeptical about a $200 yakitori omakase. Edit to add: I’m generally skeptical of omakase experiences these days. At least in Houston, omakase has become played out with every Tom, Dick and Harry doing an omakase.
  10. Exactly.
  11. I was being highly sarcastic, but I’m sure that talking point is part of Briscoe’s calculus.
  12. What do you think the camps along the border that our state government is supporting are for?
  13. In a state where our legislative body meets for 140 days every two years, it’s good to see our elected representatives focus their time on the issues that will improve the lives of Texans and their children.
  14. Macron wants to shoot his shot with Melania. He’s into older women.
  15. The Phoenician, in particular the Canyon Suites, is one of my happy places. We love doing a long weekend there at least once a year to lay around the pool relaxing and hitting up all of our favorite places from when we lived there. It takes a week to detox from that trip.
  16. As someone who had Cardinals season tickets for more than a decade, I can testify that the Cowboys fans in AZ aren’t exactly the types to travel for a college football game.
  17. The expanded playoffs are going to ultimately kill demand for the conference championship games. People only have so much money that they can drop on last minute travel during the holidays if they think their team is a contender to make a deep run.
  18. I posted here yesterday that I wouldn’t be mad about a suspension and fine in this case and I’m still not. I do think two games is more consistent with recent history in the NFL, but I’m not going to lose any sleep about it. What I do think is BS is Runyan’s over the top reprimand that does nothing to attempt to lower the temperature and instead appears to be stoking the flames. Caserio also makes a really good point with regards to the hypocrisy of supporting players.
  19. Maybe I’m just getting old, but whereas I used to think Looch was a complete dumbass, I’ve begun respecting the grift he’s been running on the rubes for a quarter century. He has monetized being the aggy athletic department’s propaganda machine and turned a message board into a full fledged media platform. It’s a pretty sweet gig. Just pump sunshine, ignore reality and collect recurring revenue every month. It takes very little thought on his part because he doesn’t do any real analysis. Just keep pumping sunshine and draining wallets. At this point, he could declare that living in CS sucks, move his operation to Austin and likely not see a dip in revenue.
  20. Sad for her family, but this makes more sense than just about anything.
  21. $14.7 billion? That’s some excellent reporting, KXAN.
  22. Circus Circus hanging in there unchanged.
  23. Maybe, but they could also come down with an awful case of COVID or explosive diarrhea and have to pull out of playing the game.
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