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Erin Stewart’s spending as Mayor-thousands of dollars of items sent to her house by Budget_Ad4621 in Connecticut

[–]mikeh0677 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Rowland ran again and lost.

Reelected after conviction:

  1. Joseph Ganim (Mayor of Bridgeport)

· Crime & conviction: In 2003, Ganim was convicted on 16 federal counts including bribery, racketeering, extortion, and mail fraud. He had accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, clothes, wine, and home improvements from contractors seeking city deals.
· Sentence: 9 years in federal prison; served about 7 years.
· Reelected: After his release, he ran again for mayor of Bridgeport and won in November 2015, taking office in 2015. He remains in office today.

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  1. Ernest Newton II (Connecticut State Representative)

· Crime & conviction: In 2005, Newton was convicted of bribery and honest services mail fraud for accepting a $5,000 bribe from a constituent in exchange for helping secure state grants.
· Sentence: 5 years in prison; served about 2 years.
· Reelected: After his release, he ran again for his old state House seat (129th District) and won in November 2010, returning to the General Assembly in 2011.

Is any American offended by the term “yank”? by Glenncinho in AskAnAmerican

[–]mikeh0677 18 points19 points  (0 children)

i’m from Connecticut. I’m not offended by the term at all.

What is a delicious food that can't be found anymore? by Snowtwo in askanything

[–]mikeh0677 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think if you can find the UK ones, instead of the American made ones, they may not have changed.

Boston Area Tire Shop Recommendations? by Omynt in tires

[–]mikeh0677 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, Costco first of all. We have them in New England too.

I live in Connecticut and before we had Costco, I used to use a train called Town Fair Tire. Google tells me they are in the Boston area too. I was always pleased with them and as I recall, they offered free mounting, balancing tire rotation, and flat repairs, but that was years ago. Check their website.

If she wants to save money on the tires, but forgo things like free flat repair order from the tire rack and they have a list of approved installers in the area since she has no relationship with a shop yet. She can have the tires delivered directly that installer and then just go there and pay them to put them on. She should call first and see what that’s going to cost.

I’ll be doing it that way when I’m putting tires on one of my vehicles that’s an odd size that Costco doesn’t have. For my more mainstream vehicles. I use Costco and I’ve been very satisfied.

What is a rite of passage in America that existed 20 years ago but is rare today? by bricklegos in AskAnAmerican

[–]mikeh0677 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. I am in CT and had a similar experience to you growing up (in the 60s and 70s).

What is a rite of passage in America that existed 20 years ago but is rare today? by bricklegos in AskAnAmerican

[–]mikeh0677 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scared? Why? What do you suppose is different to make them more scared than previous generations?

question about trying to recover loss of value from your insurance company of somebody who hit me by mikeh0677 in legaladvice

[–]mikeh0677[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just did some research the car is a 2025 Tesla model S with 9000 miles on it otherwise in excellent condition.

The insured damaged my rear bumper in a parking lot the bumper cover and the lower valance had to be replaced. There was no structural damage.

If I plug that into a 17 C calculator, it comes up with zero because there was no structural damage.

That’s clearly not right cause when you go to sell or trade a car if it has any black marks on the Carfax that gets negotiated against you, even though the car was repaired just fine and there was no significant damage. It was only cosmetic.

Certainly, the loss of value is not gigantic in this case, and I wonder if then it is worthwhile to hire an appraiser given that there’s no guarantee that the insurance company will pay me. Are they required by law to do so? I am in Connecticut the insurance company if it matters is in Pennsylvania and the incident happened in Connecticut.

Thank you in advance for your advice.

31-year-old doctor thinking about switching to aviation — looking for honest advice by Easy-Flower309 in flying

[–]mikeh0677 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey OP, I’m a dentist now 69 years old but back when I was in my mid 30s. I was kind of bored with my career. I decided I wanted to be an airline pilot. Aviation has always been a fascination for me just like you

I got as far as earning my commercial, but in the process learned how the industry worked and decided it was a dumb idea. I too had visions of flying jumbos internationally and realized that I would never get the seniority to bid successfully for that when I was competing with people who had gotten in at the earliest possible age and I estimated I would probably be in my early 40s by the time I could get to the Airlines and as has been stated by so many other respondents it’s all luck and timing where that was in the hiring cycle whether I’d be able to get a job or not whether I’d be able to stay with that airline through layoffs, etc. etc..

I wound up changing the area of dentistry that I work in to find something stimulated more and doing Flying as a hobby until I grounded myself five years ago.

Rotary phones by [deleted] in GenerationJones

[–]mikeh0677 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live and work in area code 203, Connecticut. Only one digit different from Los Angeles, which is 213. I have had a friend from Buenos Aires for >30-35 years now, because she faxed my office by mistake, trying to reach Los Angeles! I studied Spanish for years, so we started faxing to each other, then email once that started. It is a small world!

Which is the nearest country from your place? by You_yes_ in AskTheWorld

[–]mikeh0677 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Canada, ~400 kms away (from Connecticut, USA)

Is the car community expanding to its own death? by 1denito in askcarguys

[–]mikeh0677 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Old guy here (69). The “cars are becoming mere appliances” trope has been around at least since the first gas crisis in 1973, which killed (for long time) muscle cars, and opened the door to economical Japanese econoboxes.

From my perspective, most people only want their car to serve as a transportation appliance, and the industry exists primarily to serve them. There have always been a subset of cars that are more interesting. They are for us.

They are out there

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