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How a trade war’s ‘self-inflicted chaos’ affects you
Newsletter Volume 3 • Number 45 Weekly Newsletter Delivery BET Democrats offer observations based on decades of financial expertise After 100 days of Trump, how much are his whipsawing, on-again, off-again tariffs costing you? Recently Yale’s Budget Lab calculated about $4,900 per year at the checkout counter. Retirees’ savings squeezed But to Matt DesChamps, one of your elected…
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Homegrown heroes
Newsletter Volume 3 • Number 44 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Greenwich youth take the lead for our planet While some elected Greenwich elders debate the semantics of a climate emergency, its youth are already knee-deep in solutions. For this next generation, the question isn’t if we act, it’s how soon we can make a difference. The Compost…
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GOP disappears the cans it kicked down the road
Newsletter Volume 3 • Number 43 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Erasing future spending from the books set to cause mill rate shock For decades, Greenwich has kicked the can down the road on maintenance and development for everything from public buildings to public safety. A report by the nonpartisan League of Women Voters found that we have a $1.5…
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THE 6 VERSUS THE 60,000
Newsletter Volume 3 • Number 42 Weekly Newsletter Delivery Finance board Republicans’ power grab exceeds their authority Last week’s town budget, which was passed with “nuclear bomb” cuts and without a single Democratic vote, targeted everyone from seniors in the Witherell nursing home and children in our public schools to ice skaters looking for a new…
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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…