They don't have everything, but Good Hope Dumpling & Ramen House in Norwalk does excellent versions of a number of the classics like char siu buns and shumai. (not served dim sum style, though, this would just be for regular takeout) Noodles are pretty good too.

Aren't there already all sorts of gigantic extra bonus penalties for assaulting an MTA employee?

Feels like a business opportunity for somebody there; set up the world's shittiest attraction and get free highway advertising from the state.

They named a park after the kid from Shazam?

People who pay the current crazy prices for delivery != people who have the free time / energy / inclination to show up at community board meetings

Nah, they'll just figure out a way to make poison really expensive

Reindeers too, somebody even wrote a song about that

They should have done it in French order, "Parkway Jackie Robinson," then they'd have had room for the C.

Maybe instead create a private cause of action? Let the owners of stolen catalytic converters file massive, ruinous lawsuits against companies buying them, with additional damages awardable to the local police department where the converter was stolen to compensate for their time dealing with / tracking down thieves.

Might be tough to track down the buyer, but if both you and the cops get a ton of money when you do, then everybody would be motivated to put in that effort.

(This could work for any stolen auto issue really - somewhere up the chain is a legitimate business and the owners of that business really don’t want to get hit with multi million dollar lawsuits for trafficking parts)

Maybe instead create a private cause of action? Let the owners of stolen catalytic converters file massive, ruinous lawsuits against companies buying them, with additional damages awardable to the local police department where the converter was stolen to compensate for their time dealing with / tracking down thieves.

Might be tough to track down the buyer, but if both you and the cops get a ton of money when you do, then everybody would be motivated to put in that effort.

(This could work for any stolen auto issue really - somewhere up the chain is a legitimate business and the owners of that business really don’t want to get hit with multi million dollar lawsuits for trafficking stolen auto parts)

Maybe instead create a private cause of action? Let the owners of stolen catalytic converters file massive, ruinous lawsuits against companies buying them, with additional damages awardable to the local police department where the converter was stolen to compensate for their time dealing with / tracking down thieves.

Might be tough to track down the buyer, but if both you and the cops get a ton of money when you do, then everybody would be motivated to put in that effort.

Would be the perfect thing to do the day after Aetna announces they’re abandoning Hartford.

Future scary-voiced Republican ad: "Some of the medical debt Ned paid off was from people being hospitalized for COVID, but we all know COVID is a hoax - where did that money really go?"

They literally can't put any more money in the rainy day fund.

Connecticut has very limited power to address that, though, unfortunately.

If only there was some way to charge people to drive on I-95 in order to discourage unnecessary trips + nudge out-of-staters to drive through Massachusetts instead.

It's a shame we didn't pick a very tall person as governor, the sun sets slightly later for them.

It's a pretty good location, across the street from Whole Foods and just over the border from Westport - I suspect that they'll either expand the apartment complex next door or replace it with medical offices or some such.

The Patriarcas were the dominant New England mafia family - based in Rhode Island (naturally) but I believe the dividing line between them and the NY mafia was the Connecticut River.

In all seriousness, CT has a part-time legislature and it's tough for a lot of them to find regular jobs that will accommodate their legislative + campaign schedules; raising salaries helps ensure that people who aren't independently wealthy can still serve in the CGA.

Also, $40k/year merely brings CT up to the same level as other state legislatures that make similar demands of their members, despite being way more expensive to live in than most of those states.

Yes, that’s my point with the 100 yards upwind thing :-)

I mean yes kids shouldn't be eating random candy they find - for all sorts of reasons - but I worry this is going to feed into the whole rainbow fentanyl / police officer going into cardiac arrest because they were upwind 100 yards away from some drugs / etc craze.

Of the things kids in Connecticut need to be worried about, "getting run over by some idiot in a very tall pickup truck" ought to rate a lot higher than "accidentally eating drugs," and we ought to be doing more to discourage people from buying those and not spend too much energy getting all Helen Lovejoy about edibles.

Did you hear he’s very tall? A lot of people don’t know that.

Yeah, I’m on a 212 and while I get a fair amount of spam from national candidates asking for money I barely get anybody asking me to vote for anything.

Their cold lobster rolls are fine, appropriate amount of lobster for the money albeit with a lot of small pieces, but I’d be wary of getting something as lobster-quality-dependent as a hot lobster roll at a grocery store.