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All of those parks are used to some extent. Bright is full Monday through Sunday with teams practicing and kids getting additional work. Jefferson and Delta rent space to travel teams and host several JPRD games. If there was a standardized scheduling system that JPRD coaches could use to schedule practice time at all of those parks, I guarantee there would be 100% use.

This whole deal is BS. Lee Sheng has been setting this up for years and is trying to get this done before her term is over at any cost. Bright has the potential to be an outstanding playground, just if more kids were pushed there. The booster club there does more work to keep the facilities updated than JPRD does. Over the last few years, this park has been set up to fail.

It’ll be interesting to see which politicians didn’t cover their tracks well enough with the bribes. I guarantee that this community is not going lay down on this one. I can see lawsuits and inspector general inquiries coming. JP government is becoming NOLA lite.

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People keep talking about shrinkage and shoplifting as reason for these stores closing. The real thieves are the PBMs, but their stealing is going on unregulated

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This is what it boils down to. The pharmacies are losing money due to poor reimbursements on certain meds. The independents are “out of stock” on those to avoid losing money. Unless there is major overhaul, the pharmacy scene that you see today will no longer exist in a few years. Expect even longer waits as the only entity able to profitably fill your prescription is your insurance company (mail order).

It’s criminal what the insurance companies are doing. The pharmacy can only accept so many $20 to $100 loses per prescription. They may make $5 on average on other prescriptions. That’s not a sustainable business model and unless there are drastic changes to reimbursement, there will be a huge disruption of pharmacy services in the coming years.

That’s not even accounting for these post-paid audits where an insurance company may recoup the total amount that they paid due to a provider not writing the amount of grams daily of a cream to use on a rash. It’s insane.

It’s a state highway, not a parish road.

Vail is HUGE, almost too big for my tastes. I’ve been a few times with locals who kind of guided the way, so I was able to enjoy it more than I would finding the good runs myself.

I’m a huge fan of Beaver Creek, which isn’t too much further away. This time of year, it’s more about how much terrain is open. Download the EPIC app and you can see what mountains and/or trails are open. You’ll also be able to see the complexity of each run. Keep in mind that the blue trails in Breck may be greens in other places.

I bought one a few months back because I wanted to buy one before they were discontinued. I have the exact same issue with the pull cord basically every time I mow. I learned when that happens to engage the lever and move the mower forwards then backwards a few feet. It always works. Not sure the mechanism behind it.

A friend had the same issue. He brought the original mower back and still has the same issue with the new one.

I called a “local” company, Surgi’s, when they were advertising an $89/unit maintenance charge. I would have never thought my two 7 year old Trane units could have so many problems. I knew they would try to upsell me, but never thought it would be as blatant as it was.

The tech checked amperage and suggested that it was pulling a little more than it should, so my capacitor was likely going bad. I let him finish his spiel that included needing 3 or 4 lbs of freeon. I then reminded him that I had variable speed units with no capacitors. He claimed that he mis-spoke.

I had a buddy (who used to actually work for that same company, and now does HVAC on the side as opposed to full time) come by to put a second set of eyes on it. He actually put gauges on it, and of course the freeon was exactly where it should have been with no other major issues.

He explained to me that alot of these “local” companies get bought out; this particular one by a larger company in Ball, LA. The techs are then pressured to become salesmen with the goal of upselling a million dollars in products and services a year. They of course do get a small percentage of everything they sell, including service plans. I’d like to have hope that HVAC guys aren’t going the way of car salesman and real estate agents, but I fear they are.

Since we’re bringing COVID treatments up… I wonder how many non-diabetic people who chose not to get vaccinated due to not knowing the long term side effects, jumped on this bandwagon and ignored that same logic.

Please name and shame. I recently had an issue with Surgi’s, so I’d like to know who else to avoid.