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Tourism, School Programs Need The Rogers-Rich Merritt House 

by Ralph S. Bloom

The recent articles about defunding the Rogers-Rich-Merritt House project for Mill Hill Park prompts the following questions.

The house, due to its size and not the era in which it was built, is planned to occupy the last approved building site in Mill Hill Park - what will take its place?

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The Hour is reporting on the legislative outlook as expressed by varying state legislators at a Norwalk Chamber of Commerce breakfast conference. The views fell along a typical tax less/spend more philosophy.

Asked what value the state’s residents derive by paying high taxes, state Rep. Lawrence Cafero, R-142, Minority Leader, called the tax burden in Connecticut a “sad fact.”

In addition to the amount of taxes paid, Cafero noted that in a ranking by Expansion Management Magazine on the “business friendliness” of the country’s 50 state legislatures, Connecticut ranked last, as well.

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