Ex-CTLawyer

@Avram in MD
French Onion Soup is NOT designed for dairy, it is a beef based soup full of onions with a crouton or piece if crusty bread across the top that the non-kosher world finishes with Gruyere cheese melted on top.
Imitation kosher versions may have a pareve soup base instead of beef and cheese melted on top,
or beef based soup with imitation pareve cheese on top.

Personally I prefer just the beef based soup with all the onions and crusty bread to dip in the bowl. Not a fan of cheese

Guess it doesn’t serve as the public town square in my town.
I polled fellow active members of town government and the party Town Committees. None have active accounts. Some used it in the past but gave up on it because of overload.

Much more going on in the 40 or so town specific Facebook groups. Don’t know many using Instagram, I gave up my account 3 years ago. I used it to follow friends, never posted. The under 25 crowd seems to like Tik Tok, but I have never viewed it, and probably won’t.

Now that government meetings and public hearings in our town are live, I am seeing loads of townspeople I haven’t seen for 2 years. Nothing like sitting over a cup of coffee and discussing the local government, schools, budget, etc

no, but I don’t eat or like it the rest of the year, either

Profiteers are using this war as an excuse for raising prices. In most places there is no food shortage, but many may have a shortage of money necessary to purchase the same foodstuffs as in the past.

Just as the US has strategic oil reserves, it has food reserves. The USDA may have to stop paying farmers not to grow crops and pay them to grow food crops (by subsidizing fuel and fertilizer and transportation costs.
There will be more buy local pushes going on.

Trump, who stated this week he is Proud of Putin?
Trump. Putin’s puppet, who owes untold millions to Russian banks
I am thrilled to have voted for Biden, so Trump lost

@screwd….
Why is requiring the Covid Test legal for those who want to enter the USA?

let’s start with the easiest:
Read the Preamble to the Constitution and when you get to “promote the General Welfare” it is game, set and match.
We have the federal system for the stated reasons in the preamble and societal health falls into the General welfare.

No case citations needed.

Don’t want to take the test, don’t enter the USA, don’t want to wear a mask? Instead of buying cheap seats on Spirit or Jet Blue, try NetJets and charter.

@Participant
More years ago than I care to admit, I won a prize in law school for top performance in Aviation Law. I have never practiced that kind of law, but I am an aviation ‘geek’

No airline exists in the USA that does not a Federal operating license. All commercial pilots licenses are Federal, not state (like your drivers license). Planes operate under FARs…Federal Aviation Rules

The FAA governs airline activity and has the power to approve, ground, fly, etc.
Thus all airline operations are subject to all Federal regulations, laws, mandates, etc.

All determination of entry into the country is Federal, now Customs and Immigration is part of ICE.
One cannot be stopped from traveling from state to state by private conveyance (car, boat, walking, private plane), BUT as soon as one boards a public conveyance licensed to carry passengers to cross state lines, then due to the Interstate Commerce Clause in the Constitution all powers belong to the Federal Government.

Now the carrot and the stick moshul.
In the 70s many states lowered the legal drinking age to 18 (NY was already there, but CT and most others were 21). Highway deaths among the young skyrocketed, Congress could not pass a federal minimum drinking age (it was 21 on planes and trains for the control reasons stated above), SO, the Federal Government said to the states if you don’t raise the drinking age to 21, we will cut off all federal highway funds to your state. It worked.

$12 an hour is ridiculously low in 2022. Here in CT minimum wage is $14 an hour. If I could trust this cleaning person in my home with my possessions he/she had better be worth and paid far more than minimum wage. We have been paying $25 the past year, and during the worst of the pandemic in 2020 and early 2021 were paying $40.

Rewrite, edit and publish copyrighted material may be theft and/or violate the copyright laws.
If YWN wants to do its own reporting fine, but of it subscribes to newswire services, it is not free to change things as you wish.

Golabki……………….

@Lostspark
I am not a moderator of the CR

There is not enough room to post why I don’t like Trump (and his spawn). Biden is a better option, but not THE better option.

I am a Zaidy, but still actively practicing my profession. My house may be mortgage free (because I paid it off on schedule over its 20 year term), but I have many mortgages on properties I own. In fact, yesterday I closed on a property and another mortgage. With rates at historic lows and rents at historic highs, it makes sense for me to borrow to finance these new acquisitions.

@EJMBRO
or should I call you bigot?
Youngest CTL daughter was born and adopted in China. All of our grandchildren are fluent in Mandarin, taken as their foreign language requirement, as it is more useful in their professional lives than French or Spanish.
You have no clue what is going in in China.
Major areas on lockdown to stop spread of Covid. Vaccination and masks are mandatory, period.

I’m glad you think VP Harris will be President in the future. I have been a delegate to the National Democratic Convention for decades, and I don’t think she will the party’s nominee. As long as President Biden stays healthy, she will not be President.

Your fear mongering is disguting

If your child or grandchild is playing the sport, perhaps on a school or camp team, not showing up, watching and shouting encouragement is dumb.
Watching professional sports may be a waste of time.
Taking my grandsons to see minor league or college baseball in the springtime is time well spent in a wholesome environment

@guteyid
“‘its 100 percent true that vaccines WORK’
Not true. End of conversation.”

They work, no one posted that they are 100% effective.
Some vaccines work better than others

@CoffeeAddict
Have you ever seen me mention CRT?
In my school days it referred to a Cathode Ray Tube…..the picture screen of your television or computer monitor

@Gadol
doesn’t sound like there is a drasha from the shul Rav when there are 11 separate minyanim in 11 separate rooms each with 100 participants

@amom
I discussed both public and day school salaries here in CT in my comments.
My mother spent her 40 year career in the public school system ending up as Asst Superintendent of Schools for Special Education. She retired in 1984. Back then the Jewish Day schools and local yeshivos would not admit that there were Jewish children who needed Special Ed and did not accept them as students.
In 1962 my mother approached the Director of Jewish Education for the Community Council in New Haven (H. Henkin) and offered to teach a Sunday school class for Jewish students with mental retardation (back then the basic diagnosis of special ed students, way before Autism and the spectrum were en vogue). He refused, saying those children should not be out in the community. She approached Yale University and was offered a classroom free of charge. he ran a Sunday program for Jewish students without regard to how religious the family and its practices were. By 1980 the local day schools and after school Hebrew Schools were employing Sped teachers and she stopped the Sunday program. 18 years with no salary, just love.

OOT, teachers at day schools and yeshivos get paid far more than in Brooklyn and Lakewood. I remember all the years on the synagogue boards I put in…general rule of thumb: the closer to Brooklyn the lower the dalary you have to offer teachers and Rabbis

@AbbaS
“so electricity not used is lost.”
It is not lost, it does not disappear in thin air.
The excess electricity we generate goes to our local power company. Unlike your post’s assumption, they don’t buy it at the selling rate. They bank it and a running balance appears on out monthly bill.
So when we use power from the utility in bad weather, at night, etc. we are withdrawing KHW from our savings account.
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Generation by wind farms and hydroelectricity may be a better solution for a utility to produce electricity, but not for an individual. Our town’s zoning would never allow windmills of requisite height in the backyard of a home on a typical 1/2 acre plot. All windfarms and hydroelectric production do is reduce costs for utilities and cut down on fossil fuel waste. I am in favor of Nuclear production, but that’s for a utility not a homeowner.

Last year, we were guaranteed 30,000KHW production by the company who installed the solar on the main house in the compound (all our buildings have solar), we produced 47,000KHW. We have enough banked to carry us through a stormy winter. I love when I open the utility bill and it is only for the minimum $11.46, prior to solar this house bill was $650monthly in winter and $1300 in summer.

@Romain
My experience with teachers’ salaries in the USA, has been as the son of a public school teacher, the brother of a day school teacher. As an Adjunct professor at both University and Law School
As a member of the Board of Directors who negotiates salaries and makes sure there is enough money to pay those salaries.
Excluding the adjunct professorial work, all the other teachers’ salaries are based on the school year: X dollars for the year, paid biweekly or bimonthly.
Part time specialists are paid by the course taught.

I have never come across American teachers paid by the month. In fact in public schools the pay is paid out over 10 months bi monthly (how teachers hate 5 week months and love February) UNLESS the teacher elects to receive less each pay period and receive payments over the summer break. This makes budgeting easier for the teacher.

The average teacher in our local public schools with a teaching license, bachelors and masters degrees and 10 years experience is being paid about $90,000 for a 185 day work year.
A teacher with similar qualifications in our local day school would earn about $50,000, but only teach a half day. Our local day schools don’t hire teachers without 4 year college diplomas.

@yungermanS
Farina is the major ingredient in kishke

@AbbaS
There is no state property tax, it is municipal. The tax credit is assigned by the property owner to the company providing/installing the rapid charging station. This is the same system that got us our solar at no cost out of pocket.
Our local mall had had the public charging stations for a year or two. Car owners insert their credit or debit card to pay for a charge.
My solar system produces more than enough to sustain rapid charge, but in most cases we charge overnight at a slower rate

Mrs. CTL and I leased an Electric Jaguar I-Pace to replace her Lincoln whose lease expired recently. When comparing costs it was similar to a new gas powered Lincoln of similar size and equipment/trim.

We have full solar in the CTL compound and sell excess to our local utility so it will cost nothing to charge. The mfg of rapid charge stations who is in the process of installing 4 at the CTL office building will also install a double unit at the compound at no cost.

Right now in CT there are state programs that make the cost of a rapid charge station free to the building owner,
Our town is considering changes to the zoning rules that will require every new commercial building to have as many rapid charge stations as required handicapped parking spaces.
All new residential (1-4 family) construction will be required to have one rapid charging station for each two units. Again, all at no cost to the owner.

We realized that we typically don’t drive more than 50 miles in a day, so range is not important to us.

@Lostspark
It is not a sacrifice, I am giving nothing up, as I established that schedule/regimen when I opened the CTL firm. I hung a shingle upon passing the bar exam and never worked for anyone else.
You have made comments on my billing rate previously, but fail tp understand that billings do not equal profit. There are rents, salaries, taxes, insurance, utilities, etc. That are paid out of revenue.
As senior partner, my non-court rate is a modest $500 hour, modest because here in Fairfield County most name partners charge more in 2021. I am not greedy. My in court rate is much higher. That said, not every minute or hour of the working day is billable, and at this stage of life I enjoy a certain amount of pro bono work.