The movies "Her" and "Network" went from being cutting edge satires to quaint docudramas in real time.
Of course there are plenty of 'moderate bipartisan' GOPs who give lip service to centrist positions. Then they vote right down the Party line.
I never worked for the privates, only volunteers and city EMS.
The problem I see is that if you let private ambulances take 911 calls, there are going to be sharks who going to figure out how to screw the system.
And of course every hamlet wants 'their' EMS and not those awful city folks.
An immigrant and a Harvard professor?
This is probably being gleefully followed by Trump personally.
New Yorker here.
It's going to be an interesting race.
His best chance to win is if the Right goes all out in making it a fight between him and MAGA. Trump lost his home town by 80% plus of the vote
They didn't make me a manager until I had been on the job for over a decade.
One day I look at an old favorite, "The Dirty Dozen."
Early on, the Major is ordered to meet with the General, who tells him he has to train twelve condemned prisoners for a suicide mission behind the German lines. The Major obeys the orders, but opines that whoever came up with the plan must be insane. The General tells him to shut up and go; then the General tells his staff that the idea is insane.
Then the Major has to meet the troops and convince each man that it's in his best interests to join the mission.
Being given stupid orders and then having to lead a bunch of psychos and idiots to achieve the goal is the essence of being a middle manager.
At this point [afaik] there are no private ambulances in the NYC 911 system. AMR has been lobbying for decades but never managed it.
The glaring problem is that most law makers have no idea how EMS works. In an ideal world they'd sit some senior medics down with the tech people and figure out the best way to handle it, and then have the law makers write it up. Like that will ever happen.
I am familiar with NYC/FDNY EMS. Started out under the Health and Hospitals Corporation [city agency] and then got moved to FDNY in 1995. Mix of hospital based and FDNY units under a City run dispatch system.
How does 911 work in MA? Private ambulances? Municipal? Are they considering a state wide system?
My guess is that the Dems will give him plenty of support and he'll lose to the GOP candidate in a landslide. New Yorkers elected Bloomberg and Giuliani and will elect another GOP even if they hate Trump.
He's being set up as a sacrificial lamb to the idea that Progressives can't win.
So, the socialist won, and you're saying he couldn't win??
otoh, the actual Trojans fought for years before Odysseus thought up that trick.
Sounds like you'd have given up Helen before second breakfast.
Do yourself a favor. Spend Christmas through New Year's in the town you're planning on moving to first.
I can't wait for his biopic.
His father was up there with Robert Altman as an independent director.
He was in "Weird Science" as a bully when he was 19. Kept getting movie roles even when he was being arrested on a weekly basis. Turned his life around and got sober.
Be interesting to see if they can find an actor to play him.
Putney Swope, directed by Robert Downey Sr.
https://youtu.be/OPgId7RgQ2E full movie
https://youtu.be/vO5aZjfOIPs trailer
[off topic]
"Zero" by Seife. Fascinating history of the mathematical concept of 'zero.'
I just want all the money they are going to spend on new stationary, building signs, and other 'rebranding' costs.
Sorcerer. Remake of "Wages Of Fear." Four desperate men have to drive two trucks full of unstable dynamite across the jungle.
https://youtu.be/HRaY2wsFJFw