Category: GDTC Newsletters
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Finance board GOP goes rogue, kneecaps town services
Newsletter Volume 3 • Number 41 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Public schools set for the guillotine next An emboldened right wing majority on the Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET) ran roughshod over town projects Thursday, cutting and delaying initiatives on party line votes with little regard for constituents or consequences. The effort seemed designed to hit…
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DOGE chainsaw slashes into town budget
Special Edition Democrats stand fast but “nuclear bomb” budget cuts are coming In a surprise move, today the six Republicans who make up the majority on our town finance board dropped an unprecedented list of draconian cuts to our town’s proposed budget—cuts that would devastate everyone from seniors to school children, and ice skaters to homeowners…
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Political divide on town budget items reveals diverging priorities
Newsletter Volume 3 • Number 40 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Republicans hack at fire truck maintenance, sidewalk disability access, flood protection You don’t have to be an engineer to see that Greenwich’s Grass Island Wastewater Treatment Plant, poking out into Greenwich Harbor, will need to be protected against rising seas and stormwater flooding. A proposed project to ring…
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Public schools are under attack and local Republicans are tossing the grenades
Newsletter Volume 3 • Number 39 Weekly Newsletter Delivery From shuttering the US Dept. of Ed., to crippling Greenwich Public Schools, look no further than the GOP in our own town It’s a Greenwich resident who is dismantling the U.S. Department of Education, and the result could cost Connecticut $320 million, and Greenwich $3 million, in assistance aimed…
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The myth of tanking public school enrollment
Newsletter Volume 3 • Number 38 Weekly Newsletter Delivery A Republican fantasy floated each budget season Ah, the age-old myth of plummeting enrollment in our schools, a favorite bedtime story for those eager to slash school budgets, close schools and fire teachers. Once again it’s circulating among our town finance board. In a meeting last month, Republican Budget…
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Bipartisan support in town finance committee for clean energy
Newsletter Volume 3 • Number 37 Weekly Newsletter Delivery BET votes to take advantage of fleeting savings from Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act Greenwich taxpayers and the environment will be getting a break in the coming years, thanks to plans to install solar panels on the roof of the new Cohen Civic Center. The technology will save the town…
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Fear takes hold at local nonprofits as funding is in jeopardy
Newsletter Volume 3 • Number 36 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Greenwich charities “are going to feel it,” warns United Way CEO Local nonprofits are putting on a brave front as they face the haphazard ravages of DOGE cutting resources for organizations that help the most vulnerable, our survey of agencies and groups has found. With 28% of…
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Connecticut’s top lawyer comes out swinging in defense of your health, privacy and family
Newsletter Volume 3 • Number 35 Weekly Newsletter Delivery For William Tong, the fight to save CT research funding, protect your data privacy and preserve birthright citizenship is personal As the Trump/Musk agenda has rolled out, CT Attorney General William Tong is not taking its excesses lying down. He’s taking it to court. “This is a full…
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Governor wants to lower drug costs and help parents of preschoolers return to work
Newsletter Volume 3 • Number 34 Weekly Newsletter Delivery “God, the economy, and President Trump willing,” Lamont says Under the shadow of chaotic pronouncements from Washington D.C., Governor Ned Lamont unveiled budgetary priorities last week that focus on improving the lives of working class people, as the CT general assembly began setting its two-year budget.…
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In an emergency, BET approves retirement-age fire engine
Newsletter Volume 3 • Number 33 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Penny wise, pound foolish Republican ‘policy’ is to blame The Greenwich fire department has struggled for years to provide adequate fire coverage amid repeated funding rejections by Republican members on the Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET). That job became harder after a fire engine was totaled last…