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June 15th Referendum Absentee Ballots Available

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Published June 4, 2010 at 6:00 a.m.
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Absentee Ballots for the upcoming Referendum on June 15th are available in the Town Clerk’s Office, Room 313, Town Hall ... Due to the limited time-frame, State Statutes do not allow Absentee Ballots to be mailed, so you have to go get them in person ... The Town Clerk’s office is open ... Monday and Wednesday 8:30 – 4:30 p.m, ... Tuesday 7:30 – 4:30 and ... Thursday 8:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.; ... Closed Fridays. (mostly because we need more money for the schools and can't afford to

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Homeless LGBT(etc) Youth in CT

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Published May 3, 2010 at 1:41 p.m.

True Colors, Inc.May 3, 2010 Three homeless LGBT youth who need you, or someone like you, with room in their hearts and their homes.Youth need homes in Danbury, Putnam and Waterbury/ProspectM* is an 18 year old gay boy, currently in hair design school in Danbury.  When he came out to his mom, she threw him [ ... ] ...

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Book Review: Rev. Martin Luther King's Assassin

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Published April 29, 2010 at 9:56 a.m.
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Ray seemed an especially unsatisfying suspect. A lifelong but not especially successful crook (he had spent almost half his adult life behind bars), he was clever enough to engineer his escape—by squeezing himself into a breadbox going out on a delivery truck—from a maximum-security prison in 1967. On the other hand, he was so witless that after shooting King, he had no escape plan more elaborate than jumping in his car and driving away. Even so, he managed to elude law officers for two

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4.37% Increase: $126.7 Million Requested For West Hartford School Budget

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Published March 6, 2010 at 12:12 p.m.
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The town council is planning to draft its version of the budget for March 9, followed by a combined passage of the board’s and town’s budget on April 27. In the meantime, budget wrangling has begun in earnest ... From West Hartford News ... After a zero percent increase to the Board of Education’s budget last year, rising medical liabilities and pension costs for retired employees are the major driving factors for a proposed budget that contains a $5.31 million increase for the 2010-11

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Local woman enters race for 3rd District

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Published Dec. 1, 2009 at 8:25 p.m.

Milford native Peggy Rogers announced her intention to enter the race for the GOP nomination to oppose popular long-time Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-03). Mrs. Rogers (above, introduced by Wally Houk) spoke for about three minutes, then worked the room to speak to individuals and small groups ... She said she was running because "what an ever-expanding government will end up with is ...

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Movie Review: 'Crazy Heart'

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Published Nov. 25, 2009 at 3:56 p.m.
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First-time director Scott Cooper, who wrote the screenplay from a Thomas Cobb novel, gives his cast (which includes Duvall, in a small but tasty role) lots of breathing room. What he prizes in this character study is not originality, but authenticity. From the songs Blake sings (written by Stephen Bruton and T. Bone Burnett) to the light in the eyes of his aging groupies, the details feel right ... gets to you like a good country song—not because it tells you something new, but because it

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Yup. It's a bloodbath.

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Published Nov. 3, 2009 at 8:39 p.m.

OK, I guess the current makeup of the Board of Alderman did such a terrible job lowering taxes and maintaining services that they, along with the Democratic majorities on Planning and Zoning and the Board of Ed needed to be destroyed ... This may be the worst use of rabble rousing since the looting of the Library at Alexandria.A balloon just burst somewhere in the room ... It's the most depressing ...

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My Brother's Keeper?

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Published Oct. 29, 2009 at 2:49 p.m.

Once again, it's time for everyone to chill out on health reform. Last week, four people went into a room to talk. One, Chris Dodd, supported a public option, one was against a public option, one wanted anything that would get past the 60 vote filibuster so a bill could be signed, and a fourth couldn't be pinned down. When they walked out, a public option had survived -- a testimony to Sen ...

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And the gloves come off… #CTGOPBattleRoyale

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Published Oct. 19, 2009 at 11:15 a.m.

Recently, it started to look at bit like CT GOP Primary contenders Rob Simmons, Sam Caligiuri and Tom Foley had made a “Gentlemen’s Agreement” to lay off each other and instead aim their collective barbs at the $30 million dollar elephant in the room, Linda McMahon. But appears that’s gone by the wayside. After Simmons [ ... ] ...

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The Hill's blog confirms Himes fund raising

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Published July 9, 2009 at 5:40 a.m.

Late yesterday "The Briefing Room" (one of the blogs of "The Hill", which reports on Congress) confirmed the fund raising numbers with the Himes campaign that I posted yesterday ... From The Briefing Room:First term Democratic Rep. Jim Himes (Conn.) raised $520,000 in the second quarter and has hauled in over $1 million since Election Day last year, according to a Democratic source familiar with ...

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