I’ve been seeing the “normal” amount id normally see I believe

I'd love to see the use of these cameras expanded - would make the state much safer for drivers, pedestrians, construction workers, and cyclists.

I am also fine with enforcing work zones, but my only concern is that some of our existing speed limits are well below the normal flow of traffic rate. Anything “automatic” could create huge fines for people who were just going with traffic.

For example on 95 in Stamford and Norwalk I think the posted speed limit is 45mph, but of course traffic often goes 75mph+. “Going 75 in a 45” makes you sound like a lunatic driver, except that it’s just a normal highway. Add work zones to that and it could mean crazy tickets.

Here that would be ridiculously abused. People making $75k per year would get thousand-dollar tickets and people making a million + would just make a phone call and get out of it.

CT needs to do a lot more too. Housing, occupation, etc. You can't take someone's life away, brand them a criminal, and then expect them to re-enter society. Our priorities are trash.

They aren't running an experiment here. They're basing their reasoning off of research that's already been done.

I play in a CT based band and know a lot of other bands that are making awesome music in our state.

If you need any recommendations, let me know. I mostly specialize in heavy and weird music.

And my question was how do you know. It seems like we're just running around in circles like a dog chasing its tail. I said any fentanyl bust is a good bust and if we are able to get information on those who are bringing it into the state, even better. We can both agree on that, right? If so, then this conversation is over

It’s perfect

Yeah, I'm a SE CT native and I love that it's so easy for people in my area to get a job that pays really well. It's just a shame that the work they do can't be put towards constructive rather than destructive purposes.

If we ever did cut Pentagon funding, we would definitely need a WPA-type program to scoop up the dislocated workers. At the end of the cold war the government did no such thing, and my hometown was devastated by EB layoffs. "Thankfully," eventually the country became paranoid enough again for the company to thrive, but I do hope that if that needle ever moves in the other direction then workers are given much more support.

North Stonington does not exist anymore lol. Guess we got annexed

Maybe, my point is that they don't specify. There are a lot of fentanyl busts going on over the last few days across the country as part of a huge federal operation. If you look at all of those stories, the highlighted picture is a table full of drugs despite hundreds of guns also being seized. In this one case, they are highlighting the guns and not the drugs. So my guess is these guys are not very high up and that these are small fish.

I have worked in social services. Yes, it is ugly and discouraging. I, myself, was an abandoned child in foster care, born to a single mother enslaved by alcoholism. My foster parents were the sort that look virtuous and benevolent but they were abusive and bigoted.

Years of teaching has taught me that helping others with patience, boundaries and forgiveness increases the odds of a positive return rather than diminishing it. Respect has to be given first so one can recognize and return it.

It isn’t a walk in the park but it is a necessary journey. It is neglect and abuse that creates these people and neglect and abuse will not cure our problem with them or each other. The outcome really does depend on the input.

Dave Chappelle approves.

I used to live right across the Thames from the Navy base in Quaker Hill, and then in downtown NL directly across from EB. I always appreciated that in any nuclear war I would've been one of the "instantly vaporized without even realizing it" people. Unfortunately, I've moved over to Middlesex so I'm definitely more in the "slow painful death" zone now.

I have. Years ago, like late 90’s. I was told I needed both plates and at the time my car didn’t even have a plate mount in the front.

Exactly, I agree we should abolish all drug laws.

One guy got busted in Hartford last summer for sale of 2 stolen firearms and sale of narcotics. Plus he had warrants for shooting at his girlfriend's house. He was supposed to do 3 years. He's out, already.

Wouldn't that be proof of the exact opposite? Besides, they might not be yet higher up on the ladder but who knows? One of them might have the balls to snitch

You win 🥇 😆

Dude, message me. The contractor is in Tolland.

It just gets most people to slow down. Without a cruiser there, many people don't care.

Such a shame. Now all those guns will go to waste.

I know it's not the group bringing it in because they are bragging about guns instead of bragging about dealing a substantial blow to the fentanyl situation.

Gotta love the moving of the goalposts too