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Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 52 Weekly Newsletter Deliver If there ever was a time that Donnie Romeo regretted being a constable in Greenwich, he’s not saying. Not even when a woman sicced her wild pig on him after he served her papers. “It chased me all the way back to my car,” Romeo chuckled.…

Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 51 Weekly Newsletter Deliver By Stephen Selbst. Stephen is a Democratic member of the Board of Estimate and Taxation. He also serves on the Old Greenwich School Building Committee. Reprinted from Greenwich Free Press. Republicans on the Board of Estimate and Taxation claim they support the public schools. But their…

Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 50 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Many Greenwich residents were deeply disappointed with the FY ‘24 budget that passed the Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET) this year on a party line vote. For too long, the Republican-led BET has allowed short-term, politically motivated decision-making to dominate the process and neglect proper…

Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 49 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Connecticut lawmakers passed a bipartisan $51 billion budget last week which includes the largest ever middle-class tax cut, while boosting support for local school districts. The bill passed 139-12 and was signed into law by Governor Lamont on Tuesday. “This budget will deliver the largest personal…

Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 48 Weekly Newsletter Delivery For their annual Lincoln-Reagan fundraising dinner, the Greenwich Republican Party (RTC) has invited a long-shot presidential candidate who promises to go “farther than Trump” in carrying out the same dangerous, bull-in-a-china-shop agenda.  Vivek Ramaswamy has big ideas for remaking America –  the constitution and laws be…

Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 47 Weekly Newsletter Delivery It may be that local Republican leaders are running out of communities to attack, so they’re aiming for one group anyone with an ounce of common sense wouldn’t touch – Greenwich moms. To be fair, they’re lashing out at the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) and the…

Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 46 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Connecticut legislators eschew partisan bickering and act on gun violence prevention, reproductive freedom, health care access, cutting fees to consumers and more. In a week where Republican-led states continued to chip away at individual freedoms, the CT legislative assembly took a different tack, passing bills to…

Newsletter Volume 1 • Number 45 Weekly Newsletter Delivery When the Representative Town Meeting approved the town budget last week, that marked the end of an annual ritual, a long and torturous one this time, but for none more so than the Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET). As our town finance board, members of…

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 potentially delayed. Call it a success for the Board of Estimate and Taxation’s Republicans who threw everything they could at the project from its inception. …

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 boilers and furnaces, muck washed away family belongings, and residents rushed to higher ground to escape the rising torrent. Flooding in the Pemberwick section of…