We engineering students all were taught to take these classes to beef up our GPA. So, we took Astronomy, Photography, Scuba, Sociology, etc. It beat the heck out of Calculus III, Differential Equations, Statics, Mechanics,
I was a night shift janitor at a small university while getting my civil engineering. My time at school was very limited ( i needed to sleep at least 3 hours a day) so I was limited on the electives I could take. History of Architecture and Fortran programming were the closest I could get to "easy A" electives, and they were anything but easy for me.
Thankfully the core classes of Junior and Senior year were very interesting for me and I did really well in them.
Youre the type of motorist who is going to make the toll revenues fall short of projections because youre likely to modify your behavior (change your route, drive less frequently on the toll roads, etc.) in response to the tolls.
Connecticut already charges a sales tax on cars, an excise tax and gas is taxed not just once, but there are TWO gas taxes.
All this money goes into the general fund. It does not go into the transportation fund as promised. If Connecticut put the gas tax money collected towards what is was promised to go to, we’d have the best transportation infrastructure int he world.
Connecticut already charges a sales tax on cars, an excise tax and gas is taxed not just once, but there are TWO gas taxes.
All this money goes into the general fund. It does not go into the transportation fund as promised. If Connecticut put the gas tax money collected towards what is was promised to go to, we’d have the best transportation infrastructure int he world.
From Hillary’s pork bellies to hundreds of murders to billions stolen from Haiti, these people will never be convicted of anything. Meanwhile, ‘Orange man bad.’
We had to do a ton of "Bush Patrol" work when I was int he USCG. Any time Bush 41 was in his Kennebunkport house as VP and President, we're be all over the place in 41'ers and on the buoy (note proper spelling) tender on which I was stationed.
It wasn't bad duty, but were were told not to let anyone photograph us fishing, which we did a lot of while on patrols.