NOTICE
On December 9, 2009, Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless (“Cellco”) filed an Application with the Connecticut Siting Council for the installation of a wireless telecommunications facility in the Town of Woodstock, Connecticut. The installation would consist of a 100’ x 100’ leased area and a 50’ x 75’ fenced compound [...]
Have you ever wondered why you never see Connecticut mentioned?
More Data Available for RI
The folks at the Ocean State Policy Research Institute pulled together a website for Rhode Islanders to provide feedback on the federal stimulus project. Taxpayers may cast your vote for the project that you feel are [...]
Even in the worst of times, schools have money to spend
Chicken Little is alive and seemingly employed as a finance analyst or reporter for an education interest group. If one relies on newspaper headlines for education funding information, one might conclude that America’s schools suffer from a [...]
I attended the informational meeting on the Highway project on 12/1 where Mr. Audet put forward the slide presentation and argument for the bond, and quite frankly, in my opinion, the case was not in any way made for the scope of this project- nor was there the specificity I [...]
Want an early glimpse at your town’s spring budget brawl? Listen to what’s happening in Naugatuck.
Due to a number of staggeringly stupid decisions by its elected overseers and “professional educators,” the borough’s school district is running a deficit of over $2 million in the current fiscal year. That’s nearly 4 [...]
Update: from -Connpolitics.tv (WTNH)
Update 2: More on the cuts headed to cities and towns
Update 3: State’s Budget Problem: No Money -Connecticut Local Politics
For those who missed this morning’s “In Our Opinion” on that bastion of conservatism, the Norwich Bulletin, they gave another run down on Connecticut’s sorry financial [...]
Update: Glastonbury Goes Green as does East Hartford, Manchester, Bloomfield...the list goes on...
Update 2: Maine DOT material usage stats
This poorly conceived money grab deserves your attention Woodstock citizens.
First, let’s take a look at the minutes of the meetings that have been conducted over the last two years or so- they [...]
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 24 Nov 2009 at 05:51:54 PM GMT is: $12,025,222,873,469.89
The estimated population of the United States is 307,346,401, so each citizen's share of this debt is $39,125.96.
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $3.83 billion per day since September 28, 2007!
Concerned? Then' [...]
Update: New London Day-
Rell plan would cut budget by $337M: Governor's targets include aid to towns, programs for poor
Over the summer hardly a day went by without headlines of the financial disaster that had been created by over-spending in California – over regulating and over taxation didn’t' [...]
At a time when the phrase “trillions of dollars” is casually tossed around, $224,702 is still a lot of money.
According to “www.recovery.gov,” the website set up to flack the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), that’s the sum federal agencies have sent to Connecticut for every job the stimulus package [...]
Last week’s election showed what can happen when elected officials blatantly oppose transparency. Voters in Greeley Evans School District 6 rejected a tax increase after a member of its school board not only publicly opposed transparency, but also testified against a school district transparency [...]
From an anonymous reader, and hilarious-
Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science.
The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by [...]
While I was somewhat disappointed in Tuesday’s results, it was not totally unexpected. Running as an independent in Woodstock is more than a bit of an uphill battle but it was encouraging to see that a number of people have been paying attention, reading what has been written and listening [...]
Tools of the trade for old "Doc" John Leavitt:By Dave Richardson
Municipal elections are less than a week away, and though there are only a handful of seats being contested, the strain is starting to show.
With seats on the BOE and BOS essentially settled as there is only one candidate for each seat, most of the focus has [...]
Foreword:
Dowd Muska strikes a theme in this article that has been prevalent in Woodstock for many years. If you think that it’s different in our little town- think again.
Even more stunning is the recent rationale on the other side of this debate- after years of denial of the obvious and [...]
BIO:
Born and raised in Putnam, resident of Woodstock since 1975
· U.S. Army Veteran 1966-1969
· Graduate of the University of Connecticut – Chemical Engineer
· Rogers Corporation 1970 through retirement in 2004
Last positions held:
· 15 years as [...]
Bill and his wife Lois discovered the Quiet Corner 20 years ago and have lived in Woodstock for 5 years. In that time Bill has volunteered for:
Charles M. Super has lived in Woodstock since 1998. He is a professor of Human Development and Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut, where he also served for a decade as Dean of the School of Family Studies, and as the Director of the Division of Health and Human [...] 
Margaret Wholean served Woodstock as First Selectman from November 2005 through November 2007 and as Board of Finance Alternate from 2004 to 2005. About one year ago I commented in a letter to the editor on the extraordinary year end spending by the Woodstock BOE – nearly $300,000 in checks written on the last day of the fiscal year, a $700,000 increase in spending during May and June, a bump over the baseline [...]
Burning all the public-policy studies that document Connecticut’s affinity for Big Government would probably keep the 3.5 million denizens of the Nutmeg State toasty this winter.
Add another to the pile. The Goldwater Institute, an Arizona-based think tank, has released the first-of-its kind attempt to “broadly identify those states most [...]
For the uninitiated, it might appear on the surface that Woodstock has its stuff together and that the respective parties represent core values of their constituencies; however, the lines have never been more blurred and the cracks in the façade are ever widening. The splits that exist within both parties [...]
Over the last several years I have been observing and commenting on the budgeting processes and spending as managed by the Woodstock Board of Finance. During that time I have uncovered, and made public, numerous irregularities that have at times raised serious questions about the budgetary process and validity of [...]
The brilliant Lawrence Lessig on Congress and the dependence on money:
Right now, special interests have more influence over our political system than regular folks because of our broken campaign finance laws. These special interests pump millions of dollars into congressional campaigns [...]
From an anonymous reader...
Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007.
The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, approximately two thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes, a middle-aged [...]
The furor over Pratt & Whitney’s possible transfer of work done at the East Hartford-based Connecticut Airfoil Repair Operations and Cheshire Engine Center to facilities in Georgia, Japan, and Singapore offered a teachable moment to state policymakers.
The moment quickly passed. Pols preferred to stick with what they always do [...]
Is this the most incredible case of incompetent budgeting ever seen? – not just missing the budget, but if these kinds of expenditures were needed and not recognized YEAR AFTER YEAR until after the budget was approved, "incompetence" doesn’t even come close to describing this situation.
Equipment
2007 2008 2009
Budget [...]
Fair warning: This one will depress you.
Americans for Tax Reform has issued the 2009 edition of its annual "Cost of Government Day" report. The analysis is a tabulation of how long it takes the "average American worker" to "earn enough gross income to pay off his or her share of" [...]
After several years following Woodstock finances and the Woodstock Board of Finance through several budgeting cycles I have decided to run for a seat on the Board of Finance as an independent candidate.
While I have had some success in nudging spending back toward more reasonable levels by raising numerous questions [...]
When I was a kid I took over a small Courant paper route and built it into one of the largest in the state and won just about every carrier contest and prize offered- trips to DC, bikes, sports equipment, etc. This is back when the Courant was a real [...]
Rep. Joe Courtney
on
Health Care Reform
Thursday, August 6 at 6:30
Woodstock Academy Student Commons
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