Thursday. Happy birthday to Rip Taylor, Sophie Tucker and Charles Nelson Reilly.
Are we getting less rational? Our words suggest we are. (It’s a supposition, not a conclusion.)
Electric power is generated by natural gas for the most part locally. But this week’s cold temperatures changed the equations, with nuclear, oil, hydro and even a little coal required for turning the turbines when demand jumped up. More pipelines would mitigate this but apparently people don’t want more pipelines.
The IRS is having a bad year. Expect backlogs and delays.
Gintautas Dumcius looks at the potential political churn in local politics in the coming year. There are a lot of moving pieces including a governors race and openings in the legislature. And in Boston there’s the first year agenda for the mayor, which includes a new police commissioner among other things. Should be quite a year.
And the mRNA technology used to develop Covid vaccines could be used to produce a vaccine for skin cancer. That would be amazing.