You can report whatever you want. Users who innocently post low-value content may find their posts removed. We remove pizza poster spam on sight and perma-bam the account posting it, but since they're bots they just keep popping up.

I'd like to see a minimum guaranteed payment for servers. If wage plus tip income is less than minimum wage, the business makes up the difference. In addition to providing some assurance to servers, this would maintain an incentive for servers to go above and beyond.

Wow. You certainly put some words in my mouth there. I think we could do all of the above with some planning and commitment.

For what it's worth, we're stuck with cars, and no amount of utopian pipe dreaming is going to change that. Find a way of unwinding 75 years of building our communities -- and literally our whole country -- around the automobile, and we can talk about buses and bikes as primary modes of transportation.

So yes. By all means, build bike lanes and bus lanes and pedestrian streets, but if we want to attract suburbanites to New Haven's stores and theaters and restaurants (and I'm old enough to remember what the city was likebl when suburbanites wouldn't come near downtown), we're going to need good parking options that meet their various needs.

I think we can do all of the above. There is a lot of wasted roadway capacity in downtown New Haven. Everywhere I look, I see broad streets that accommodate two lanes of traffic in each direction, plus parking, and still manage to become choke points because of standing bases, delivery vehicles, and inefficient traffic management. We can do better.

They could have learned that from 5 minutes of research as well. What I'm getting at is that it seems like they didn't even do the bare minimum research required to locate the main thing they were apparently looking for, the Yale campus.

It's like they Googled New York City, found themselves in Staten Island, and complained there's nothing to see.

So I'm going to be blunt.

You drove all the way here, but it sounds like the only research you did was to look up "Yale" on Google Maps.

Even a little bit of planning would have gotten you to the Sterling Library, Beineke, Woolsey Hall, the Grove Street Cemetery, the Yale Art Gallery, the Center for British Art, and half a dozen other places within a couple blocks where of where you were. And that's not even counting non-Yale destinations like Louis Lunch, Wooster Street, and East Rock Park.

Hope you come back, but next time, maybe read up a little first.

Both have their role. If I get a craving for Arethusa on my way back from the train station, a garage is not a great option.

We can have a long discussion about the difference between how people ought to behave and how they actually do behave. We live in a car-centric society; I'd love to be more like Copenhagen, but for the foreseeable future, we have to play the cards as they lay.

There is a role for street parking, just like there is a role for garages, bike lanes, pedestrian throughways, outdoor dining, etc. Frankly, I think we use our downtown streets inefficiently. I'd like to see more of all of the above.

Street parking is important, and it helps drive up downtown foot traffic. Many people prefer it for short errands, as opposed to parking lots or garages, which are perceived as less convenient and .ore expensive.

I can say from experience that street parking is much harder to find than it was 25 or so years ago, when I could reliably find a spot across from Blockbuster Video on Chapel Street on weekend evenings.

I recently had the experience of driving around the city for close to half an hour looking for a spot at midday on a Thursday.

I'm a big fan of outdoor dining and would hate to lose the steps forward we've made since 2020. But we can't brush off the importance of street parking.

Botswanas and Big Bad Johns back in the day. Murdervan. George Baker in his prime, and, for sheer musicianship, Rohn Lawrence with Jay Rowe back when they did Tuesday nights at the old Rudy's on Elm Street. I'll back up whoever mentioned Pencilgrass, too.

It certainly used to be. If it is somehow less cool after spending 3 years and $160 million to renovate it, I would count that as a pretty massive fail.

Yale has a fair number of students from non-traditional backgrounds, including older students, as well as graduate students and faculty who carry backpacks and hang out in coffee shops. You might feel like you stand out, but I assure you, you'll blend right in.

You could also head to the Public Library or go to Westville, where the coffee shop denizens are more likely affiliated with SCSU.

No one "blames" the gun. We don't "blame" the car for automotive deaths. We regulate automobile manufacturers, enforce the rules of the road, and license drivers.

Shouldn't be an issue anymore. For a long time, it was a cop bar, and they were pretty picky about who they let in. Women were not allowed. (The reasoning supposedly was that the cops would go there after work, and if their wives knew they were at Contois, they could be sure they weren't messing around.)

It was real low-key. There was no sign or neon lights. My brother moved into an apartment right across the street in the late 1990s, and he didn't believe me at first when I told him there was a bar there.

The first few times I went in, I'm pretty sure they were keeping thge door locked, and I probably wouldn't have set foot inside except my friend had a connection. Even so, if memory serves, everyone stopped talking and stared at me. The owner -- I believe the father of the current owner -- was reputedly an ex-Navy Seal, and he certainly looked the part. Things got friendier once he got to know you.

Things got a lot more relaxed under the current ownership. They put in a low-key sign 10 years or so ago. And to my knowledge, they welcome anyone, male or female, as long as they behave respectfully.

The ads paid by customers are generally promoting efficiency and conservation programs that are funded through hidden taxes on your bill; Eversource is mandated to run the programs, advertise them, and notify customers about where the money comes from.

Eversource would have to pay for ads that simply promote the company using shareholder dollars.

Serious offer: If you shoot me an image of the itemized delivery charge on your recent bill, and the one you are comparing it with, I will identify what has changed to cause your delivery charge to triple.

Nope. Just used to work in the business (not for ES) and am constantly amazed at how little people understand about this subject. My only goal is to correct factual misinformation. (Ask me about the distribution rate increases both Eversource and UI are proposing, and you'll get a very different kind of answer.)

(By the way, having perused my history, are you really accusing a 15-year Redditor with 55k karma and a long comment history in dozens of subs of being a "burner" account?)

Tell me, oh CT energy guru: What, exactly, is a "production rate"? And why would delivery rates change in response to oil or gas prices? (Is it possible you are just throwing out terms to make it sound like you know what you are talking about?)

Supply prices are adjusted 2x a year to reflect what it costs Eversource to procure electricity supply on the competitive market. Usually, the Jan. 1 adjustment is an increase, and the July 1 adjustment is a decrease. Obviously, when energy markets are haywire, that trend may fall by the wayside.

Fuel prices are generally down from where they were a few months back, so supply prices ought to follow that this summer. But because of the way CT utilities have to procure supply for their customers, it could take a while for lower prices to get fully baked in.

Keep an eye on competitive supply options in the months ahead, since there are likely to be some deals. But continue to compare over the longer term because Eversource's Standard Offer often falls below competitive supplier prices after prices rebound from a drop.

Troll account.

There is really good Italian food in New Haven that is NOT pizza. Adriana's and Consiglio's are stalwarts of the local scene.

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Get a slice of Domino's and leave it under a heat lamp for an hour. Taa-daaa! New York pizza.

I'm sympathetic, but I think the solution is a review of light timing and maybe some blinking reds during the wee hours. When people start to see stopping at red lights a suggestion, it can get to be an awfully slippery slope.

https://www.ctinsider.com/connecticutmagazine/news-people/article/The-History-of-the-Mafia-in-Connecticut-17040323.php