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BET Republicans Sow Chaos at Central Middle School
Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 44 Weekly Newsletter Delivery It was an eye-opening budget season that just concluded, with the Central Middle School (CMS) construction plans thrown into disarray and […]
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As floods threaten Greenwich homes, leadership is lacking
Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 43 Weekly Newsletter Delivery In early September 2021, rainfall from Hurricane Ida sent a roiling flash flood into Pemberwick. Cars floated in garages, water inundated […]
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CT Democrats: the party of actual responsible budgeting
Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 42 Subscribe to Newsletter Ever since Ronald Reagan’s experiment with trickle down economics created a yawning budget deficit that doomed Greenwich’s own George “No New […]
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Failure of local leadership on CLIMATE change action
Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 41 Subscribe to the Newsletter! As a wealthy and highly educated community, situated along a coastline, you’d think Greenwich would be a leader in efforts […]
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You can help protect the integrity of our town legislature. Run for office!
Greenwich’s Representative Town Meeting (RTM), is a unique institution. Guided by an independent, non-partisan ethos for over 90 years.
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Republicans’ dismal budget starves our schools again
Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 40 Weekly Newsletter Delivery If there was any doubt about what Greenwich’s Republican-controlled Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET) values, it was obliterated Tuesday, when […]
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THE BUCK SHOULD STOP WITH THE FIRST SELECTMAN
If you receive the First Selectman’s weekly Community Connections newsletter, you may have read his claim this morning that our state representatives distorted his position on funding for Old Greenwich School. Oh really?
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Beware of red herrings with Old Greenwich School funding proposals
DON’T GET FOOLED by the sketchy, last-minute, Old Greenwich School (OGS) plan from Republican members of the Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET) members.
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The proposed BET budget fails our town. Here’s why we can’t support it
When crafting our town and schools budget, responsible planners should consider what’s in the best interests of taxpayers, plus what will help our children and families thrive. But once again Republicans on the BET Budget Committee backed into a bare-bones plan without any concern for what residents want or the town needs.
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RTM Thwarts Republican Effort to Overturn Vote in Greenwich
The Representative Town Meeting (RTM) soundly rejected a Republican-driven attempt to overturn a vote taken in January, one that took an outsized meaning when the far right objected to the outcome, which approved a $500,000 outside grant to our bipartisan registrars of voters.