r/Connecticut

In other news, I spent most of my morning finding a new oil guy.

We need add these thing to the rail plan

Uconn rail service

Middletown rail service

Maybrook line rail service

Norwich Rail Service

write this in the survey to build ct rails

37M in the Waterbury area. Recently finding myself needing to rebuild my social life a little. Most of my friends are married/coupled up now, and over the years our interests and schedules have naturally gone in different directions.

I also just started fresh with a new Reddit account and figured I might as well use it to actually connect with people and find some new things to do instead of just mindlessly scrolling lol.

I’m into golf, live music, breweries, coffee, random day trips, sports, etc. Not really looking to sit at a bar alone and hope for the best. I’d love to find things where showing up solo isn’t weird and you can actually meet and talk to people.

I’m good with Waterbury/New Haven/Southington/Hartford or driving somewhere within reason. Meetup groups, golf leagues, trivia, classes, events, volunteer stuff…whatever! What have people around my age actually had luck with?

Basically trying to get better at saying “fuck it” and going somewhere alone instead of waiting for friends to be available. Open to making new friends, meeting new people in general, and seeing where life takes me.

For as long as anyone can remember, Connecticut Republicans have largely been out of power, which leads them to make a lot of comments and accusations of Democratic corruption. However, the call is coming from inside the house. Capitol Dispatch is publishing a series of articles this week and next about the Republican Culture of Corruption bubbling under the surface of the state GOP. Some of it is well known. Other parts may be a little less public. You can check out our research and check our work at https://capitoldispatch.substack.com/

My condolences to the several hundred people in Southington and Waterbury who will almost certainly be laid off as redundant over the next year or so. My guess is this will be like the M&T merger where branch employees and salespeople / account managers stay, but all back office support will be gone. Having worked at Webster for several years and knowing people who still work there, I’d say good riddance to bad rubbish, but in this economy and job market that isn’t fair, even a job with a company that treats it’s employees are poorly as Webster does is better than being unemployed right now.

I live in District 149 (western Greenwich / northern Stamford) and wanted to know what my state rep actually voted on. I couldn't find a complete record anywhere, so I built one.

It covers all 754 House floor roll calls Rep. Tina Courpas (R-149) cast in the 2025 and 2026 sessions, parsed from the General Assembly's roll-call PDFs. 654 Yes, 99 No, one absence, and 30 votes against her own caucus. Each entry says what the roll call was actually on, because 114 of them are amendment votes rather than bills, and a tally alone can invert what a vote meant. Every bill also carries its outcome and a plain-English summary written from the CGA statement of purpose or the OLR analysis, with the official wording and a link to the source kept alongside it.

https://tina-courpas.ivotehowiplease.com

I have no affiliation with any candidate, campaign, or party, and this isn't an endorsement or a criticism — it's the record with sources. Committee votes aren't included; the state records those separately. If you find anything that doesn't match the CGA record, tell me and I'll correct it.

Cumberland Farms used to be my go to convenience store for the cheap store brand chips, cheap fountain drinks, cheap coffee.

Now the store brand chips are gone, fountain drinks and coffee no longer cheap, and even the gas is more expensive than average.

What happened? Did they get bought out?