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captainXdaithi t1_j6ebqox wrote

Reply to Bring back the whalers!!! by iwanttobehappy2022

Not gonna happen. CT is too small, and the NY Metro area has Rangers, Devils, Islanders, while the Boston side has Bruins.

Also, the rights to the Whalers name and the franchise rights are with Carolina. They moved the team from Hartford and rebranded. Carolina even wears the Whalers gear at special throwback games, and they sell the merch to this day.

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buried_lede t1_j6ebmvc wrote

Reply to comment by Unfairly_Banned_ in A Statement from Commissioner and Colonel Concerning the Memphis, Tenn. Incident (released 01/27/2023 7:57 pm) by BobbyBuzz008

They really know how to game their body cameras now. They say if not for the street camera, they might not have been able to piece this together.

They turn away, they use audio to make it sound like they are struggling when they’re not (“stop resisting!” when they’re actually lying there unconscious. ) It’s ridiculous. Sure didn’t take police long to figure that out

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maxanderson350 t1_j6e9dq6 wrote

Reply to comment by irocgts in Anyone have experience with DFC/Fostering in CT? by irocgts

We had to do that - we sat for month after month with zero communication from our worker at one point (immediately prior to approval) and had to complain. Another time, we were approved but our worker forgot to book us "in the book" and thus we sat for nearly 6 months without a single call about a placement.

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buried_lede t1_j6e6vty wrote

Reply to Credit union recommendations by CorruptedLife95

Ah, gee, you mentioned the one category that isn’t competitive at credit unions. Their savings acct interest rates and CDs are usually not competitive with banks. They offer great interest on checking accounts that are active though, unlike banks. I have totally free checking and make interest on it, so basically I am being paid by them to have a checking account. That’s common at credit unions.

For savings, though, I would look for high interest savings accounts at banks, especially online banks like Amex or Marcus or capital one.

I do recommend credit unions for every day checking, car loans house loans, personal lines of credit. Connex is good, Sikorsky is good too. There are a few good ones here

Edit: for investment accounts, don’t use newbies like Robin Hood and also any that charge you for trades, like Merril Lynch. Open an online account at one of the solid standard brokerage houses. Examples: Fidelity, Charles Schwab and TDAmeritrade all have user friendly platforms with just tons of guidance and analysis/research into securities to get you started. You can open an account with a dollar and they are free to buy and sell stocks and ETFs etc.

Brokers like Robin Hood offer so little. Their users run around the Internet scratching together research on potential stocks to buy and their security is untested. The others I recommended allow access to reports for free that would otherwise cost a small fortune to subscribe to from dozens of sources

Look for promos too. Fidelity just had one (maybe still going) where they’ll put $200 in your account if you open a new account with $50

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johnsonutah t1_j6e52wk wrote

Reply to comment by Kolzig33189 in Are electric supply rates expected to drop again mid-year? Does a frugal homeowner need to check rates 2x/year to make sure they're getting the best deal? by sadswirlofme

If you want to decrease eversource costs in CT, then convince Vermont / New Hampshire to run new transmission lines down from Canada (they previously shot this down) so we can access cheap hydroproduction electricity.

Or convince New York / PA whatever states west of us shut down the natural gas pipeline that would’ve delivered us cheaper energy.

Sadly CT has little option to improve its situation

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solomons-marbles t1_j6e3c6e wrote

Reply to Bring back the whalers!!! by iwanttobehappy2022

As someone who was there watching games with less than 1/4 of the HCC occupied, it’s never going to happen. The league doesn’t want a team in small market sandwiched between larger markets. I don’t see them adding more teams in the distant future either. There was a plethora of reasons the Whale left. Attendance & fan support was only one.

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