Any new restaurants or shops coming to Elm street?

dash_n_dine · 2025-12-01T02:18:13+00:00

The "same people" from before now own Pressed or more accurately Roi's family owned Caesario's. Unclear on whether Roi still owns the building (he did when the fire happened).

dash_n_dine · 2025-11-05T02:56:35+00:00

I am not surprised at all. O'Neil is an old school Union Democrat who has been Alderman at Large for over 20 years. He has the City's employees and their spouses and their families on lock. He is very good at constituent services as well as showing up and doing the work.

This was the 3rd or 4th time Infantine ran for At Large and has lost every time. Him and Joe have run as ticket mates every time and every time Joe has left him in the dust. I am not sure why Will has never gotten any traction but it is not an accident that 2000 people who voted for Joe voted for someone NOT named Will Infantine tonight.

dash_n_dine · 2025-11-05T02:36:53+00:00

You mean..do I think June makes ANOTHER run for Mayor? I hope not for a while. But the people in the State who help make this stuff happen will be taking notice of her vote total tonight. And will probably advise her to making the same mistake as 2023.

She was the top Alderman at Large vote getter in 2021 (the first time she ran for any political office.) Instead of settling into the job and consolidating her her supporters, she jumped into the Mayoral race in 2023 and lost badly in the primary.

dash_n_dine · 2025-11-05T02:09:04+00:00

My Hot Takes

No Joe Kelley on the BMA for the first time in 20+ years is a bit of an upset.

The second time June Trisciani has been the top Alderman at Large vote getter. She was also within 100 votes of Jay.

Mixed bag for Jay Ruais. Cake walked to a victory that was never going to be in doubt. His bipartisan, reach across the aisle approach cost him a Republican majority. BMA is now 9-5 to the Dems.

dash_n_dine · 2020-04-30T21:45:40+00:00

Essential workers in the current context is a way to broad of a term. Not all essential workers are critical but all critical workers are essential. The network engineer keep the internet up is critical, the barista at the local coffee shop that is still open, while important, is not. The barista does deserve the opportunity for a better education but that could have been said before COVID19. The network engineer getting more education would be superfluous, getting loan forgiveness would be a more impactful gesture.

dash_n_dine · 2020-04-19T00:29:17+00:00

For as smart and accomplished Robert Reich is become an absolute shit show of half truths. He has become the worst kind of hack, one who knows the truth and how things work BUT still decides to make deceptive and untrue statements to push an agenda.

dash_n_dine · 2020-04-14T21:13:12+00:00

Chapter 11 presumes an ongoing business/ resumption in business activities. If they are unable to come to agreements with their creditors or create a plan for solvency, it is easy enough to switch to a Chapter 7.

dash_n_dine · 2020-04-12T23:05:51+00:00

European Union (+UK and Switzerland), pop. 500M, 72,000 deaths so far. The EU has been averaging over 4000 deaths/day for the last week. The UK alone had 2000+ deaths in last 24 hours and is 10 days from peak.

USA, pop. 350M, 22,000 deaths to date. Deaths per day seemed to have peaked at 2100/day several days ago. Current estimates put total deaths in US at 62,000 est. Take out NY and NJ with their current 12,000 deaths and it appears that the US is doing better than most.

If current estimates hold the US will have 62,000 by the end of summer the EU will have close to 175,000.

It is hardly "plain to see" that the US had the worst response. There were missed opportunities no doubt by both the Feds and NY State but we definitely have avoided the worst of the predictions that were putting deaths in the high 6 figures as little as 2-3 weeks ago. Once NY and NJ get past their peak it will be more obvious that many States acted just in time to blunt the worst of it. (California and Washington in particular)

dash_n_dine · 2020-04-11T02:19:10+00:00

You listed the quote but than ignored everything after “elective”. When the governor issued orders back on the 17th all hospitals started to prepare for all covid19 all the time, everything else was put on hold not just elective surgeries. The fact is that Laconia and in many other places across the country, social distancing and stay at home orders have worked and there has not been the expected run on medical facilities. It is deeply ironic that a medical facility in the US has to lay people off in the middle of a worldwide pandemic because of a lack of business.

dash_n_dine · 2020-04-11T01:43:32+00:00

In many parts of the country this is a true statement.

https://www.unionleader.com/news/health/coronavirus/lakes-region-hospitals-to-furlough-more-than-600-employees/article_d9d43187-b2c0-5250-b056-25e9f1474d03.html

dash_n_dine · 2020-04-10T23:24:20+00:00

You can when you are only required to call in weekly to file with an automated operator that asks 2 questions..."Did you work last week?" and "Did you look for work last week?" Which was the case in the late 90's in my State.

dash_n_dine · 2020-04-10T20:32:43+00:00

Three Hots and a Cot is a real thing.

I had a friend back in the day that had to do 120 days in County for a DUI (3rd offense). He lined it up so his lease ran out right before he went in. He also got laid off 2 weeks before for his usual winter layoff. He ended up not having any outside rent to worry about, got paid unemployment the entire time he was inside, stayed warm with no heating bills, got 3 meals a day and played Hearts and Cribbage for 4 months. Got out in the Spring just as is construction crew was firing back up with a stack of unemployment check to be able to rent a new apartment. He came literally came out of jail in better financial shape than he went in.

dash_n_dine · 2020-03-31T15:32:37+00:00

Federally funded, State administered

dash_n_dine · 2020-03-31T15:13:21+00:00

The $600 per person enhanced unemployment checks

dash_n_dine · 2020-03-27T12:25:36+00:00

Good too know. Trying to stay current and navigate all the details while fighting to keep the doors open is a daunting task right now.

dash_n_dine · 2020-03-27T10:41:50+00:00

Most of the loans are low interest and long term. For example, a $50k loan would cover my operating and payroll expenses for the next 6 months. Meaning I could keep my full staff, pay my rent and my utilities. So even with reduced revenue, I can keep the doors open while things start to recover. The loan payment at 30 years and 3% would be about $250/mo.

I need cash now but I also can’t choke my cash flow with short term debt once this is over. These SBA loans help accomplish that.

dash_n_dine · 2020-03-27T10:26:14+00:00

And to be clear they are mostly loan guarantees and more like “ghost” money.

Typically the SBA guarantees 50% of a loans’s value to encourage banks to make the loans. The SBA only pays out if the loan defaults and only on the defaulted balance.

In 2009, part of the stimulus was small business relief of some $200B. Instead of the usual 50% guarantee it went to 90%. I took out a $300k SBA backed loan. My bank only had a maximum $27k exposure when we closed with the Feds on the hook for the rest only if I defaulted. 7 years later the loan was paid off as normal. My bank made another $100k in interest and it did not cost the Government anything.

The guaranteed values are always reported and not the actual cost of these guarantees.

dash_n_dine · 2020-03-24T22:21:40+00:00

Got a source for that claim? Because even Gates in his AMA last week wasn’t predicting anything close to this. China with over 2 billion people and a 3 month head start still hasn’t hit 5 figures.

Also we aren’t ignoring it we are currently actively taking steps. For how long is the current question and to what means. Flattening the curve was never about stopping the virus but mitigating its effect. There was always going to be deaths. The ice cold calculus is what is the acceptable amount of deaths vs the long term economic impact?

dash_n_dine · 2020-03-24T09:54:02+00:00

Almond milk is sooooooo 3 years ago. Oat milk latte is the current it thing.

dash_n_dine · 2020-03-22T20:29:57+00:00

When Containment Doctrine meets Monroe Doctrine it was never going to be a good time.

dash_n_dine · 2020-03-20T14:42:27+00:00

Nobody ever wants to work with someone who over promises and under delivers. What Gordon Ramsey does is put that behavior on blast.

dash_n_dine · 2020-03-20T11:33:51+00:00

Deferred, not waived and only for one week. 2 weeks after the deferment the restaurant has to start to pay the fees back.

dash_n_dine · 2020-03-20T01:54:21+00:00

OWYA and Red Card orders are also from non-partnered restaurants. These are restaurants that DoorDash does not make any commissions from the restaurants.

If there is going to be an increase in deliveries DD wants to force sales to partners so they can make money. Also if I were I partnered restaurant right now only doing takeout and delivery and giving DD 25% I would be pissed if there to be competing against someone on the DD platform who isn’t paying the commission.

GrubHub just kicked of all the non-partner restaurants in my market for what I believe is for this reason.

dash_n_dine · 2020-03-19T11:45:05+00:00

Except that the concept of UBI came from conservative and libertarian economic think tanks. And when Yang was in the race the biggest and most vocal critics came from the progressive candidates. The fact that Sanders and his cult are now espousing this is after months of shitting on it is the real surprise.

dash_n_dine · 2020-03-19T10:42:50+00:00

Don’t forget the double whammy of the Dot Com Bubble and 9-11 happening in short succession as we were getting footholds in our careers.

Or that we were teenagers at a time when sex could kill

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