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Newsletter Volume 2 • Number 51 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Celebrate and salute those who gave their lives for us This weekend we welcome the return of summer vacations, the Town Party, and outdoor barbeque at the beach. Some cheer holiday sales too. We’d like to remind you to also take a moment this Memorial Day…

Newsletter Volume 2 • Number 50 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Don’t underestimate what Democrats can accomplish with a unified delegation at the state capitol. If you have a seat at the table, that impact can be measured in dollars. That’s how Democratic state representatives Rachel Khanna (D-149), Steve Meskers (D-150), and Hector Arzeno (D-151) managed to…

Newsletter Volume 2 • Number 49 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Nick Simmons has been a student of bipartisan politics for much of his life. Bipartisanship was something of a family affair in the Simmons household. His father took him to the Republican National Convention at age 10. (Event highlight? Nick met “The Rock.”) His mother took…

Newsletter Volume 2 • Number 48 Weekly Newsletter Delivery We can’t do anything to fix a flawed budget, but the RTM can pose revealing questions It’s a shame that Greenwich’s annual budget dance has become a farce. After months of meetings by our Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET), the Representative Town Meeting (RTM), the…

Newsletter Volume 2 • Number 47 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Stopping toxic “forever chemicals”: one more reason the public sector matters “Government is not the solution, it’s the problem,” is a tiresome Republican trope that’s been used to quash everything from regulations protecting the public from Wall Street money manipulators, to COVID health measures. So when…

Newsletter Volume 2 • Number 46 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Democrats split their vote 3-3 on the town budget to send a message about inadequate funding for critical needs, while rescuing a few important projects from the ax. By the Democratic members of the BET This week, the six Democrats on the Board of Estimate and…

Newsletter Volume 2 • Number 45 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Republicans ax a specialist who would pursue energy efficiency initiatives that could save “tens of millions of dollars” Long before the threat of global warming made conserving energy critically important, there was a different reason to do so: to save money. So it’s baffling that Greenwich’s…

Newsletter Volume 2 • Number 44 Weekly Newsletter Delivery But elections have consequences: Republicans use tie-breaking vote to force unpopular cuts Just months ago, a town survey found that traffic, transportation and schools topped residents’ concerns about Greenwich. Improved road safety became the backbone of First Selectman Fred Camillo’s re-election campaign. Yet in the last…

Newsletter Volume 2 • Number 43 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Christina Downey wants to harness the energy of Democrats for the most crucial election of our time There was a time, not so long ago, when Christina Downey didn’t like partisan politics. After leaving a New York City legal career, she became active in numerous PTA…