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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…

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…