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Early Addition: Connecticut, the Vibes State
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Published Dec 11, 2023
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Good Monday morning in New York City, where drivers with bogus license plates could undermine congestion pricing.
Here's what else is happening:
- Two NYPD officers who drove their SUVs into a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020 and were charged by the Civilian Complaint Review Board have been cleared of wrongdoing by the police commissioner.
- New Jersey-based Kars4Kids is suing Texas-based Cars for Kids for copyright infringement — even though the Texas one started first.
- Concerned drivers on the Staten Island Expressway successfully removed a runaway Chihuahua from traffic last Tuesday night.
- Connecticut, in an effort to shake its image as preppy and stuffy, is spending about $5 million on dual rebranding campaigns: "Make It Here" and "Find Your Vibe."
- SIN Club, a Lower East Side music venue that lasted six months before the police shut it down in 1983, sounds like it was a fun time.
- George Santos says he's raking it in on Cameo — so much so that he ordered pizzas for his friends at a bar last week.
- An asteroid is going to pass in front of the shiny star Betelgeuse tonight.
- The reason reality TV contestants act that way is because they're underfed, plied with booze and extremely sleep-deprived.
- What happened to Prince Louis' middle finger?
- And finally, there goes breakfast:
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