Happy New Year to all. Enjoy the day and use the comments for whatever is on your minds.
Happy New Year Open Thread
by turfgrrl
January 1st, 2008 · 13 Comments
Tags: Current affairs
13 Responses so far ↓ “Happy New Year Open Thread”
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Norwalk Police Department can’t count the number of employees and I believe they only asked for enough free federal grant money that ran out after 42 patrol cars. The oversight is going to cost hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to finish the rest of the cars. The similarities between departments are interesting
simply found this on another thread maybe its time to talk about this as well.
anyone?
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25 minutes into the new year stabbing or slashing at the homeless shelter. Because we are privy to a lot I’m sure we will read what crime did happen last night and where.Seems this year weapon of choice may be the knife.I hope our safety will be an issue as well.
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Happy New Year Turfie! How about a New Year’s Resolution thread? I’m sure that would cull some creative responses.
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Hiya Watchdog. Sure we can do a New Year’s Resolutions thread.
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Blogger’s arrest causes stir, but little change
The advocate sends a message
hey at least its news
also made you look
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I have been debating with myself whether your post is a scare tactic, ignorance of the legal system or light-hearted humor.
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simply light hearted humor
like when i read the thread Norwalk: Generating Our Own Electricty and found this comment
I am not making this up. NASA has a program to zap electricity to earth to meet human electric needs by putting solar panels on the moon. The problem isn’t the technology but getting the panels to space
so I simply added
HOUSTON - The space shuttle Atlantis’ mission to the international space station likely will be pushed back a few more days or weeks as engineers study problems with electrical connectors and the extension cord to Norwalk Ct.
(the shuttle was actually pushed back)
There are some things in this city that need our attention and when humor is questioned i then question where we are as a city.
Lets not forget we have funeral tommorrow a man who was well liked came from a decent family and while we are out here bitching about the BOE and not enough police there is family seeking some sort of closure friday.
reading the news today we are spending all kinds of funds given to us
Shays Ensures $5.6 Million For Dredging in Norwalk
Norwalk: State Releases Funds $1.8 For Reed-Putnam Project
then we have
Hal
will brief the Common Council’s Public Works Committee on his 2008-09 operating budget request. At $19.6 million, his submitted budget is up nearly 20 percent from 2007-08 spending.the
Chief Rilling announced that the police department has used about 65 percent of its overtime budget and we are not at the fiscal year midpoint.
The DPW is the only budget we are concerned about correct?
The we read about the top money earners in the city.
The poor bastards that get flooded get
DPW chief seeks $18.7M Request does not include money for Five Mile River
then we hear
The Norwalk High School renovation could face an $809,500 shortfall that would require remaining contingency money and dollars from other school projects
the we hear
“We have to understand that when we first established these budgets, when we did that survey with Gilbane (several) years ago, the cost of everything was a lot cheaper,” Moccia said. “We’re not spending more money. We’re trying to reallocate to finish. And I agree, it does get frustrating.
I heard nothing about any of this at election time now nothing is funny anymore.
It would of been nice if the ones running for mayor could of addressed any of these issues it would of been nice to see someone with some insight in our budgets.Maybe the election would of had a different outcome maybe not.
Theres more but why drag this post out.
So if I can induce some humor in this city of ours I try.
I took no offense from you asking my intent but if you were a news paper and the local blog was cutting into your profit and readership I’d put an article in about bloggers as well.
see always a moral to the story but the long way around it.
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The land of the free…ish.
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Teachers are in phase II. The blog is all yours to do with it as you please.
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Reuters) - Neighbors of a former IBM (IBM.N) plant in New York state sued the company on Thursday, saying it released chemicals into the air, ground and water for nearly 80 years that caused birth defects and cancer.
Some 90 residents of the upstate New York towns of Endicott and Union say that from 1924 to 2002, IBM dumped chemicals including trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene near the Endicott plant where the computer giant was born.
Geeee i wonder if anything was dumped where the computer was born?
See after 80 years someone may still help clean up the mess , something to think about in Oyster Park maybe.
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From today’s NY Times:
The View From Darien
Joining Forces to Stem FloodingBy GEORGIA KRAL
Published: January 6, 2008DARIEN
FOR weeks at a time last year, Vanessa Wood’s property here looked more like a pond than a backyard. Mrs. Wood and her family live along Stony Brook, which flows from as far north as New Canaan and into the Long Island Sound. In the past year it has overflowed its banks four times, damaging Mrs. Wood’s house, garage and two motorcycles.
“There was a lake around my house,” she said. “It looked like a big swimming pool.”
Mrs. Wood — one of dozens of Darien home and business owners severely affected by flooding — started a blog last spring, DarienFlooding, to inform residents and those outside Darien about the problem. Last month, Mrs. Wood, with Laura Giobbi, another resident whose home was damaged, decided to join efforts with a nonprofit group, Save Darien’s Wetlands.
The merger helped to re-energize the group after the death of its founder, Lee Fingar, last July. The group’s new focus is to rally homeowners who have been affected by floods and to demand that the town come up with solutions to protect homes and businesses, particularly by enforcing stricter building regulations.
While Darien has a history of overflowing watersheds, many factors have contributed to the recent flooding. Peter N. Hillman, chairman of the town Environmental Protection Commission and the Flood Erosion Control Board, pointed to significant residential and commercial development in town. He said that Darien was 98.5 percent developed, a figure he called astounding.
Climate change and aging infrastructure have also played a role, Mr. Hillman said. Darien is a coastal town and much of inland Connecticut naturally runs into it, he said. “Water has to go down the drain,” Mr. Hillman said. “And some of our rivers start considerably far north and west of town.”
Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Giobbi and others say that rampant development, which they blame for the increased flooding, could have been avoided. “The town allowed overdevelopment, and drainage was never properly addressed,” Mrs. Giobbi said.
David Keating, the assistant director in Darien’s Planning and Zoning Department, said that for years there have been regulations on commercial development, new subdivisions and special permit uses (churches, for example) in residential zones. The regulations say detention systems must be in place to deal with added runoff.
But what has not been covered are additions to existing homes or the tearing down of homes to build bigger homes, which often happens in Darien.
Mr. Keating said that the Planning and Zoning Department was discussing how to regulate residential property development.
The town has discussed ways to control flooding for years. Flood studies were completed as far back as the 1950s, Mr. Hillman said, but the cost of fixing the problem was deemed too high, so smaller projects were completed instead.
“If some of the suggestions or recommendations made 50 years ago had been implemented, yes, we’d have less flooding,” said Evonne M. Klein, the town’s first selectwoman.
To address the current flooding, the Environmental Protection Commission and the Planning and Zoning Commission drafted a five-year plan in April that calls for ensuring that existing culverts and catch basins are properly maintained and fixing areas prone to flooding, starting with Stony Brook, where Mrs. Wood lives.
Mr. Hillman said the project would cost about $20 million. “Every taxpayer needs to prepare for an increase in property taxes,” he said.
The town has also applied for loans from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to buy two properties damaged by floods, Ms. Klein said; the federal agency would pay 75 percent of the purchase price, and the town would pay the rest. If the money is awarded, the homes will be demolished and the property will be owned by the town and used for flood control, Ms. Klein said.
In the meantime, Save Darien’s Wetlands, which has about 15 members, continues to raise money and meet.
“This is the gold coast of Fairfield County,” Mr. Hillman said. “This is not the way our system should work.”
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Anonymous 7:11am: Excellent post!
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welcome all
do you know maybe which company make the most cars in the world
thank you
