Besides the independents, LTL carriers such as Forward Air deal in automotive transport as well.

Someone else mentioned uship, they are on that platform as well.

I've used TD for years, it's convenient for me and they haven't done anything to piss me off yet. I also have accounts at a couple of national credit unions such as Penfed.

That one would be worth of /r/RoastMe.

I would use Louie down the alleyway downtown for my banking needs before I would true M&T for anything. There have been a mass of horror stories in /r/Connecticut about them ever since they took over.

Just over the border in Agawam, MA there is Yankee Mattress Factory. They've gotten a lot of good reviews over the years. They'll even adjust the upper layer if you aren't satisfied with the feel.

>Did you not read? They paid dividends worth over $800 million dollars last year. Case closed.

The dividends go to the shareholders, not the executives. Also, $800M wouldn't even begin to cover the cost of New England alone.

>Also, side note since you seem unaware. Eversource in other states is separate operationally. That’s one reason why the performance of the company in say, NH, is better then in CT. They’re essentially joined at the very top, holding company level.

The levels of your ignorance on what you are trying to talk about is astounding.

NH, MA and NH are all operated until a central umbrella at Eversource. The costs I broke out (which you ignored in hopes that others would not notice they exist, or just haven't come up with a way to refute the truth) would exceed the dividends paid out in New England alone; the number you listed was for the company as a whole. Unless you want to pay licensed electricians the same as burger flippers, the math will never add up without massive price increases.

Ok, so let's bring on, somehow, another 2000 workers. The median pay for a lineman at Eversource is ~$45/hr. That is $187.2M. Now this doesn't include benefits. The average employee cost for benefits is ~32% of pay. That is another $59.9M bringing us to $247.1M/yr. Now this is all assuming they work a straight 40hrs/wk, which of course they don't especially during storms. A technician, especially with storms and regular job issues, can easily top 500hrs of OT a year. OT Pay, benefits, etc. tacks on another ~$92M/yr, bringing us to $339.1M.

Now tack of equipment. How many tens or hundreds of millions to get all the trucks and other equipment needed? A single line truck can easily top $300k-400k in cost. Just to give a comparison of another vehicle with a similar amount of hydraulics, the truck that picks up your trash every week goes for $600-$800k depending on body style.

To top it all off, this isn't something they could do in just one State and ignore all the others. For New England along, for simplicity's sake you can triple all those numbers.

So... assuming you COULD find thousands of people to hire AND find all the equipment they need, how to you propose to pay for it?

> A few days fix time for a storm in the middle of winter when temps are about to be in single digits and teens for a few days is completely unacceptable and incredibly dangerous because not everyone has generators, fireplaces, etc to heat their home.

And where did you expect them to pull all the thousands of extra employees and hundreds of extra trucks from? Out of their ass?

Almost every State is dealing with issues right now, most worse than here. Stop being so fucking entitled already.

> But with the rates we pay, you'd think we could have more workers and equipment in-house at Eversource to deal with this.

No company is going to keep a ton of extra employees around for something that happens once every several years.

Given the size of the storm, this is a case where no State can send help to another because they have their own problems.

Install in Vernon 2.5 weeks ago. 4 days from contact to install, tech was excellent and on time, 500/500 for $40/mo working flawlessly. Bye bye comcast!

They use the address searches on their site to gauge demand.

Star True Value Hardware in Ellington is still at $5/dozen for local farm eggs.

I'm going to ask my SIL and her hubby about this one as well. I know hubby is involved somewhat with local politics there.

Tolland County (specifically Vernon/Ellington) you have a Big Y, 2 Stop & Shops, Shop Rite, and Aldi. Slide over to Coventry and you get Highland Park Market as well, go to E Windsor S Windsor or Somers and you can tack on Geissler's.

We-Ha is Doubly Crunchy.

I most often get tailgated when I have 2 or more vehicles in front of me already going slow; in these cases I'll typically hang back several car lengths as it accomplishes absolutely nothing for me to be up the next guy's ass. I also leave this space so the asshole tailgating ME will have an additional space deterrent to keep from doing something insanely stupid like trying to pass 4 cars on a double yellow.

If on desktop browser, hit Ctrl-P to bring up the print view before the paywall pops up. You can then read the entire text in that window.

A Glastonbury homeowner is suing the town council, claiming it never should have authorized a developer to build 30 condominiums in a former warehouse along a busy local road.

Council members abused their discretion when they agreed to change the zoning of the old Consolidated Cigar warehouse on Hubbard Street, according to Leonard Factor’s lawsuit.

Changing the zoning last winter cleared the way for JS Advisors LLC, a Wallingford-based developer, to begin converting the building into condos. Nearby homeowners complained at the time that the project would worsen traffic, and Factor’s suit cites that as one of the reasons for the court to rescind municipal permits allowing the conversion. The council approved the project by an 8-1 vote last January, a decision he wants reversed.

Factor’s suit in Hartford Superior Court contends that adding 30 condos on a parcel of just 1.2 acres will diminish the value of his home next door. “The value of the property owned by plaintiff, and the use and enjoyment of his property, are adversely impacted by the council’s decision allowing for construction of the proposed development,” according to the suit filed by Factor’s attorneys, Timothy Herbst and Barbara Schellenberg of the Marino, Zabel & Schellenberg, PLLC.

The suit names the town council and JS Advisors as defendants; both have filed responses in court denying Factor’s allegations. This week, Judge Edward O’Hanlan directed attorneys for Factor, the council and JS Advisors to submit briefs in January.

The former Consolidated Cigar Corp. warehouse in Glastonbury in 2018. (Peter Marteka) Listen to this article

The property at the heart of the suit has been involved in controversy before. Consolidated Cigar built the roughly 50,000-square-foot warehouse in the early 1900s to store and pack tobacco, and the company went on to become Glastonbury’s biggest taxpayer for many years. It owned as much as 1,900 acres of tobacco fields in town in 1976, but left Glastonbury as the shade tobacco industry in Connecticut dwindled in the 1980s.

The three-story building at 38 Hubbard St. was considered for apartments nearly a decade ago, but neighbors argued that the proposal was simply too big for the neighborhood. Opponents rounded up 200 signatures on petitions for town planners to reject the proposal.

L.A.C. Group LLC had sought permission for 40 units, a mix of one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments, but the council approved only 31.

L.A.C.’s attorney said at the time that while 40 units were economically viable, it was unclear whether the company could construct just 31 profitably. Ultimately the project wasn’t built.

Last year, JS Advisors put forward a new plan, this one for building condos instead of apartments. Neighbors told the plan and zoning commission as well as the council that the scale was too large for the residential zone where the old warehouse stands.

The council set several conditions for development but approved changing the property to an Adaptive Redevelopment Zone. Factor’s suit contends that town planners wanted density and parking caps to be considered when evaluating proposals in the ARZ, but the council didn’t follow through.

“Had the regulations been properly amended in accordance with the commission’s unanimous recommendation, the council would have been obligated to consider an entirely different standard for density in connection with the applicant’s proposed development,” according to the suit.

Our last fill-up 2 weeks ago was $3.79/gal. We've been using the same supplier for years, paid by CC. Tolland County.

Anyone that thinks just building housing, rounding up people and sticking them in it are deluding themselves. Many people don't WANT to come in from the cold, for a multitude of reasons.

For housing specifically, these people often don't have the faculties (physical, mental or emotional) to maintain a residence. Without intensive support in multiple other areas of life to adjust (which there is nowhere near enough of to cover everyone), they are doomed to failure.

>"Housing without support sets up people to fail," said Tod Lipka, president and CEO of Step Up on Second, a housing and service provider in Santa Monica, California. "It has to be a transformative experience."

>The challenges formerly homeless people face manifest in various ways, he said. Some continue to pile their belongings in a corner, a habit born out of the need to keep their possessions safe. Others, accustomed to sleeping in shelters, wake up at 6 a.m. to vacate their apartments, forgetting that those rules don't apply to private accommodations.

>Lipka recalls one client at Step Up on Second who screamed loudly every morning around 3 o'clock. It was a trick the man learned while living on the streets to protect himself by keeping others away.

>"I was on drugs and all out of whack," she said. "It took me a minute to finally see that Step Up was exactly what I was looking for. It was complicated to trust people who were trying to help me."

>Building trust is just the first part of securing stable housing. Many people who have experienced homelessness protect themselves by refusing to believe their situations can change, Lipka said.

>"Most of these individuals never think they can get housing again," he said. "You harden yourself against the hope and disappointment."

>Once people accept help, they must tackle bureaucracy. Case managers work with people to secure documentation, such as IDs or Social Security cards, needed to apply for financial assistance. After the paperwork is sorted, people receive housing vouchers.

>Walker spent a year living in a hotel room before finding a permanent apartment through Step Up on Second. She said the time indoors was crucial.

>"I didn't really have any home training," she said.

>That included cooking and even shopping for food, Walker said. At one point, she asked her case manager about how to handle fish. Walker wasn't sure whether it should be refrigerated or how long it would last. She learned the hard way.

>"My whole apartment stunk," she said, laughing at the memory.

This particular story has a happy ending for the subject, but this is sadly far closer to the exception than the rule.

>After months, even years, of sleeping on the sidewalks, in tents or in cars, for some residents learning to live in an apartment was not as simple as unlocking a door and stepping inside. It meant living on someone else’s terms. It meant paying bills, cleaning, remembering their keys when they stepped out.

>Leaving the streets also meant abandoning the past and imagining the future, which could be a challenge for anyone whose focus had been hour to hour.

>To ease confusion and loneliness, residents invited friends over who were still homeless. Some found it hard to accept that they had been given housing and others had not. Guilt could sabotage good fortune, trigger old behaviors.

>A visit could turn into an overnight, then a few days, then a few weeks, and weeks would lead to eviction. Visitors had nothing to lose by behaving badly. In their jealousy and envy, they didn’t care about lease agreements. Nor did they care that they were being watched to see if rules were being broken.

They are always held either then, or around 1pm on a Tuesday when anyone that actually has a financial interest is at work.

> Ive never had any interest in going to /r/atheist

Imagine if the FDS and Socialist subreddits had a love child...

>A true atheist isnt "anti" religion, he just doesnt care to participate

Oh, they participate alright. Ever been into /r/atheist? Their favorite hobby is participating by blocking others from participating in theirs. They're some of the most vehement of all.

Atheists are actually some of the most militantly anti-religion of all. Can't say I know too many that are Republicans.

> Moron right wingers distrust any religion that involves head coverings.

"We're making the key decision now for our kids. It's religion decision time, you know, and I'm not bringing ‘em up Catholic, I've made that decision, ‘cause I was raised Catholic and NO WAY! Eh-eh. Nope. You know what, I can't bring my kids up in a church whose authority system is entirely based on the size of fucking hats, okay? That's apparently how the Catholic church is run. The bigger the hat, the more important the guy, right? Priests have no hats, cardinals have those little red beanies, the pope has a collection of big hats... God must have a HUGE fucking sombrero up in heaven, huh? "Look at me, I'm God! Look at the size of my hat, who else would I be?" "I don't know, lead singer of Los Lobos? I don't know! You tell me!" "-Denis Leary

Did you ever try any of the Station Modes? It allows you to restrict to a single artist, play deep cuts, new releases, and a discovery mode that specifically matches new tracks to your base selection.