Matt Gagnon discusses various topics, including the “caller of the week,” Steve from Raymond, and the importance of development in Maine to address high housing costs. Greg Lagerquist and Matt Gagnon debated the impact of California’s legislative decisions and the NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) attitude in Maine. They also discussed the upcoming weekend’s baseball series in Fenway and the political landscape, including the “Nepo baby primary” and the potential involvement of the Baldacci family. Matt Gagnon shared his plans to cut the grass and reflected on his middle-aged lifestyle.
Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes states. And the dreaded polar vortex will again invade the Midwest and East with soul-crushing Arctic chill. This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash has already hit much of the East.
An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January in the latest sign that prices were persistently elevated even before the Iran war caused spikes in oil and gas costs.
A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.
House lawmakers were digging into Jeffrey Epstein's sprawling financial portfolio on Wednesday as a committee deposed his former accountant and tried to understand his connections to some of the world's wealthiest men.
