edited by: Judy Aron,
Connecticut Editor
The town leaf pickup crew came by this morning and vacuumed the leaves from the curb. As I always do I started thinking about the cost of the service.
I noticed there was one truck, with a driver, one vacuum operator, three rakers and two supervisors in town pickups. 7 people [...]
Video: 11-09-09 Town Council Swearing In/Organizational Meeting.
[...]Video: 11-09-09 Town Council Swearing In/Organizational Meeting.
I have been trying to post this for two weeks and finally got it up. Blip.tv was not loving this video and kept breaking it off around 20 minutes.
This is the swearing in of our newly elected officials. The Town Council selects a [...]
Will a tax revolt this be the ultimate trickle-down economic effect? Revenue is drying up not only at the Federal level but is now doing so, as was inevitable, at the State and local levels. I’ll go out on a [...]
Help support Bethel Temple Church Of God on Frank Street, in need of about $6,000 to replace stolen equipment.
Pastor Larry Pinkard will invoke the prophet Nehemiah from the pulpit Sunday — and tell a tale about how walls will be rebuilt on Frank Street.
The sermon will touch on the tale [...]
Few things are as detestable as exploiting certain groups for your own personal political gain. At the lowest levels of respectability would be the use of our nation's veterans of the armed forces to further your own political exposure.On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”
The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have [...]
Now for something totally different....It really doesn't matter how President Obama divides the Afghan baby, how he splits the difference between McChrystal and Biden. Because the war in Afghanistan has been lost.
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I say this because of one' [...]
Democrats' Obamacare will raise premiums and taxes, cut Medicare, and drive up the deficit. Is This the kind of health care reform the American people want?
In the following video, Senate Republicans remind us that Americans do not want higher premiums and higher taxes disguised as reform:
' [...]When the Pelosi/Reid left-wing Democrats took control of Congress on January 4, 2007, the national debt was $8,670,596,242,973.04 -- that's $8.67 trillion.
Today, the national debt is 12,039,319,107,488.80 -- more than $12 trillion.
That is a 38% increase in the national debt in the less than three year period that Speaker [...]
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, D-CT, is a front-line supporter of the government takeover of this nation’s health care system and spares no one from her lash who stands in the way.
DeLauro’s irrational conduct was just part of the Obama administrations confusion convention this week over breast [...]
The only thing bigger than Ralph Nader's ego is his delusion of significance. But whenever his political sideshow tent pulls into view and he begins unpacking its crates of unmitigated bullshit, I have to smile.
Small wonder, all roads lead to Rome. And our tax dollars. Somebody has got the manage and spend all that money! Interestingly, at the other end of the graph is Detroit. Isn’t that a coincidence! Giant sucking sound from the right to the left.
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Sometimes the facts are raw and the truth just is what it is. State Senator Sam Caligiuri, who is an excellent candidate for virtually anything, has totally stalled out in his race for the U.S. Senate. He is overshadowed by former Congressman Rob Simmons and the [...] I’ve been seeing a couple of catchy TV ads on recently for what appeared to be a new bank offering better than average terms and rates for depositors. You have probably seen the commercial in which the two girls get ponies, one fake and one real which exclaims that even [...]
Yes there is a poverty trap and it’s run by the government.
Consider the graph below, it shows a person’s take home after taxes (outflows) and government subsidies (inflows) as a function of the person’s income. As a person’s income increases from zero to roughly $40,000 a year the [...]
The recent decision by the Obama administration to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other accused masterminds of the 9-11 attacks in New York City is a mistake and should be reevaluated by the Justice Department.
Mohammed, or “KSM”, as the press refers to him, is by his own admission one [...]
Space shuttle Atlantis is safely in orbit with six astronauts and a full load of spare parts for the International Space Station.
Atlantis lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:28 p.m. EST.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News [...]
During the campaign, while this blog was suspended, a hearing was held on the FOI complaint I had filed against the the Real Estate Acquisition & Disposition Committee. The hearing was my first experience in such a setting and I’m happy for the experience.
I received notice from the FOI commission [...]
For those who think Sen. Chris Dodd is going to pack it, Monday’s announcement that Vice President Joe Biden is coming to town to do a $500 a head fundraiser is short-term proof that the senior Senator is going nowhere.
Last week, Sen. Dodd continued to get [...]
TOWN COUNCIL MAJORITY OFFICE
NOVEMBER 12, 2009
SPECIAL MEETING
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY CONTRACT re: 590 BURNSIDE AVE DALEY COURT
PRESENT Chair Richard F. Kehoe, Vice Chair William P. Horan, Jr., Majority Leader Marcia A. Leclerc, Minority Leader Donald H. Pitkin, Councillors Marc I. Weinberg, Barbara-Ann Rossi, Linda A. Russo, Eric A. Thompson and Susan P. [...]
TOWN COUNCIL CHAMBER
EAST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
NOVEMBER 9, 2009
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
R E V I S E D 11-16-09
PRESENT Chair Richard F. Kehoe, Vice Chair William P. Horan, Jr., Majority Leader Marcia A. Leclerc, Minority Leader Donald H. Pitkin, Councillors Marc I. Weinberg, Barbara-Ann Rossi, Linda A. Russo, Eric Thompson and Susan Skowronek
CALL TO ORDER
In [...]
Probably not.
For all but three years of the past 40, the federal government has run a deficit, and at the most basic level, the reason is simple. In their desire to be re-elected, congressmen are afraid not to spend more and more, and they’re equally afraid to [...]
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