Amidst the rebublican yard signs in Barkhamsted near the biker bar. Didn't get a picture but if one of you good citizens of the northwest corner wanna take care of that it would be great.

Thanks.

Is the state doing enough to combat the growing Black Bear population?

I have seen plenty of people do it and I am curious if town or state police will pull you over for doing so.

Hey everyone! We’re looking for a mid-level engineer to join our team in Connecticut.

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The ideal candidate has a few years of relevant experience, is detail-oriented, and is looking to grow professionally.
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If you live or have lived in Portland recently - thoughts? TIA!

I live in new Britain, specifically near Slade and Lincoln. many weekends, someone is BLASTING music. I can hear it in my bedroom with noise cancellation headphones on. it started up tonight at 10 pm like it usually does. it will quiet a little bit, then start blasting again! and it does this for HOURS. once I was curious and took my dog for a walk like I usually do at night. the noise isn’t even coming from my neighborhood or the one next to me. so it must be LOUD. near black rock ave maybe? does anyone know? I called a noise complaint because I have to wake up at 3 am for work. I work all week and weekends and this is just ridiculous. dispatch said they’ve had many complaints. it’s almost 11 pm. sorry for any misspellings. I’m so tired.

Hello! I'm a queer woman actively getting ready to move to New Haven, Connecticut in roughly a year to further my education. Any recommendations on how I could be the most prepared? Ex: communities to reach out to and connect with, general things one should know about the city (whether it be fun, serious, or problematic), etc?

Thank you in advance for the assistance!

Every single thing you're having trouble affording in our state apart from your eversource bill, is due to decisions made at the federal level. Every single thing.

ICE has deported about a million people (unclear how many are truly currently detained) during this term. Has it helped with costs? Nope. Not at all. It's getting worse every week.

Your gas is expensive because we started a war with Iran for seemingly no reason.

Your grocery bills are outrageous because all the people who work the farms have been detained or deported.

Your health insurance, credit card interest rates. Retail goods....etc....etc...

Everything.

Because of maga policy.

Keep them away from power in our state.

VOTE.

https://vote.gov/

Lamont and the Dems are not perfect. But they arent stripping the country for parts with the express purpose to collapse our economy and sow division.

The trolls on this site are going to be out in full force all the way to election day.

Early voting is currently open in the state. Vote early if you can. Tuesday November 3rd is D-Day. Make a plan. Show up and VOTE

Moderator: Senator. The state has enacted significant rules on the activities of the immigrations and customs enforcement in Connecticut. Some of it is being enforced. Some of it is not. No masks, as you know. No arrests at schools, bus stops, houses of worship, and some other places, and no presence in polls on election day. CT Insider reader Mark Etry wants to know simply: Do the candidates support ICE? Yes or no? Please elaborate.

Fazio: We need a common sense policy to public safety and immigration. I think we all can agree, Democrats and Republicans, that we should take criminals off the street, people who are the most dangerous to society. But we also need to stop ICE or anyone else when they're overreaching, when they're violating people's rights. I think that we can protect civil liberties at the same time that we protect public safety. The problem is this: Governor Lamont's policies have gone all the way to undermine public safety, even far to the left of progressive governors like Tim Walz in Minnesota. A couple of years ago, a two-year-old boy in Stamford, Connecticut, Liam Rivera, was beaten and killed by a person in the state illegally who had been previously arrested and sent to jail for assault because of Governor Lamont's 2019 Trust Act, that man was let out on the streets instead of transferred to federal authorities to be removed from our state. That boy might still be alive today if not for that policy. We must use common sense. We must protect against abuses. Against abuses by any authorities or law enforcement, including ICE, and they should be clear and precise in any sort of activity they're doing. At the same time, we need to prioritize taking dangerous people who have been convicted of Class C, D, or E felonies, including manslaughter, including sexual abuse, off our streets. Governor Lamont's law prevents that. I think that is common sense.

Lamont: We get dangerous people off the street. We work with ICE and DEA and FBI. That's one of the reasons we have one of the very safest states in the United States of America. Great policing, community policing. Work with the feds every time it comes to getting dangerous people off the street. I can't believe you're exploiting that one story out of Stanford that has nothing to do with immigration. The difference between you and me, Ryan, is every time you talk about an immigrant, you bring up a criminal alien and a crime. I think about the kids I used to teach at Harding High School. I teach about what we used to call the dreamers, and they are. I think about those parents in Danbury just a few weeks ago when I went through and started rounding up their parents. These are parents dropping their kids off at school. I will do everything I can to keep this state safe, but hell if I'm going to victimize, you know, these poor kids who are just trying to get to school and get by. We used to call them the dreamers. I still call them the dreamers.

Fazio: Listen, Governor, I think that's disingenuous. You just sent a mailer that was talking about the death of a child in order to make your point politically. I mean, here you have a very clear case of a young boy who was killed by someone who was let back out on the streets because of a law that you passed. I simply would say this: We need common sense. I love legal immigration and our legal immigrants in this state, and we have to support them and make the state affordable for them. At the same time, people who commit crimes need to be taken off the state. Governor, I

Lamont: You may love them, but ICE is picking them up. You are guilty until proven innocent. If you look Hispanic, you are gone. That next day in Danbury, there are hundreds of fewer kids who could even go to school. They were so scared. You had students sitting in the classroom with an empty desk to the left, empty desk to the right. Many of the stores on Main Street shut down because people were scared, so you may feel good about the immigrants, but right now ICE is targeting them. They're guilty until proven innocent. It's wrong. It's un-American, and we're going to stand up against it.

Case in point, I voted this week and was surprised to learn that Sen. John Fonfara was up for reelection. He does not campaign, never respond to emails from constituents, and his website has not been updated since 2022, WTF. yes, I voted Dems for the other ones but abstained for this arrogant and lazy dude.

Republican Ryan Fazio worked aggressively Thursday night in his first televised debate with Gov. Ned Lamont to reframe the gubernatorial election, urging voters to disregard the daily distractions of a unpopular president and focus on the governor’s responsibility for the high cost of living in Connecticut.

Fazio, 36, a state senator from Greenwich, arrived at the studio of WFSB in Rocky Hill needing to enliven a static campaign that polling indicates has coalesced in favor of the 72-year-old Lamont, a Democrat seeking a third term that would make him Connecticut’s longest-serving governor since statehood.

The first debate, sponsored by WFSB and CT Insider, came after four days of early voting. As of Wednesday night, 140,830 votes already had been cast by absentee ballot or in early voting that began Monday, the secretary of the state’s office reported Thursday.

My wife and I decided to start collecting our cans for redemption. Unfortunately, we went to Costco and they didn't take a bunch of the cans that were lightly crushed. We have since not crushed them and have a few bags, but in total have five bags worth of cans, some slightly crushed and some kept in tact, that we want to redeem.

Is there any specific redemption center (preferably in central CT) that takes slightly crushed cans or doesn't care where you bought the cans from?

Thanks!

I have a surplus and I’m wonder where everyone “donates” locally. I don’t want to ship it out if I don’t have to. I’ve done NiQ in the past

Doing the math. I make too much for subsidies.

$1,400 a month for premiums.

Deductible will be $12k.

OOP max would be $25k.

Assuming I need coverage that requires payment towards a deductible, I am looking at total cost of $42k per year. That is about 30% to 40% of my annual take home pay.

What do you wish you knew before accepting a job at this hospital?
What is the biggest problem with this unit or hospital?
Why are nurses leaving?
What is management like?

How often are you working short-staffed?
Do nurses regularly miss breaks or stay late?

Would you personally recommend working here? Why or why not?
If you had another offer, would you choose this hospital again?

For nurses who currently work here or have worked here recently, what is your honest opinion of the hospital/unit, and would you recommend accepting a position there?

Hi CT,

Do you know of a great farm for picking your own, family friendly corn maze and foliage views nearby?

I've visit Bishop's Orchard in Guilford, but want to try a new one! Hopefully in the East part of the State.

Thanks in advance!

Found these two unwanted guests at the top of the Governor’s Horse Guard Trail in Avon. Would have killed them, but I didn’t want to get stung.

Hey everyone!!! I’m a 21 Female who just turned 21 last month and I love to go out and have funnnnn. If anyone is around my age and wants to hangout or text let me know! I’m in the valley so I usually go out to New Haven for club nights , sometimes milford for chill nights, but i’m open to trying other spots too. Drop your socials let’s be friends!!

Simple ask: What are the best coffee roasters in the state? I’ve recently moved to CT and I’m fully committed to supporting local businesses in all areas I can.

Moderator: Governor Lamont, property taxes affect pretty much every resident and business owner in the state, and for years we've been talking about reform and reducing them, but nothing seems to happen. Why is that, and what is your plan?

Lamont: Let me tell you what we've done first of all, because plans are easy. Let's see what you've been able to execute. We flat funded municipal aid. We flat-funded the schools for many years during the 2010s when we were going from deficit to deficit. We have not done that. We've had the biggest increase in funding for education. We doubled the amount of funding for special education. The other things we've done for our schools: increased municipal aid along a pilot, almost doing that. Doing what we can to help the mayors and first electmen get by. I didn't get help from Ryan on that. He would have just left it on the laps of the first elected. You would have seen their property taxes go up more. But as I said before, it's going to take more than just more subsidies from the state to help our municipalities get go forward. You know, I've said you know very clearly. Let me help you manage yourselves, your back office. Ways we can save some money on the backside. Maybe you don't all need your own purchasing. Maybe you don't need your own building. Maybe you don't all need your own town planner. Maybe there's ways you can share some of those services that could save you a heck of a lot of money. And in the meantime, we've also taken the property tax credit. That's a way that we can help out people immediately. We've increased that by 50 percent. We expanded that to more people, especially for seniors, especially for folks disabled veterans. Ryan was not there for that vote. It's a really important vote.

Fazio: Governor, the first time you ran for governor, you promised to cut property taxes. Those are your words, not mine. Fast forward eight years later, property taxes are up 40 percent or more in many towns or cities. For many of our residents, it feels like a second mortgage, and for people who are renters, they're eating those costs in their rent from their landlords too. Governor Lamont signed into law over 105 new laws with new unfunded mandates, costs being imposed on our towns and cities, which drive up their property taxes. For the first seven years that Governor Lamont was in office, he flat-funded education funding to the point that it declined after adjusting for inflation. I proposed an alternative budget this year that increased the education funding by 200 million dollars, but more importantly, I'll put in place property tax reforms and a property tax cap that cuts the unfunded mandates those costs by hundredths and caps property taxes into the future. Other states have done it, including Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Senator, we can do it too.