I’ve gathered all the trash posts into this handy list o links. Just to make it easier to find them all as various people piece together the story. Start at the bottom and work your way up.

http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/08/05/holy-confidential-batman-morris-blasted-for-meddling/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/08/01/norwalk-dems-need-to-look-at-the-real-trash/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/08/01/brown-reveals-morris-gave-her-crra-letter/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/07/31/brown-keeps-digging-a-hole/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/07/29/lionel-hutz-strikes-again-political-silly-season-arrives/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/07/25/norwalk-rtc-goes-after-brown/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/07/22/common-council-meeting-of-july-22nd/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/07/22/lawsuits-and-prayer-vigils/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/07/21/council-now-has-to-vote-tommorrow/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/07/18/transfer-station-hearing-thoughts/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/07/17/yet-another-public-hearing-on-a-garbage-contract/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/06/24/poop-happens-ii-and-more-on-garbage/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/06/23/the-truth-about-trash-and-nimbys/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/06/19/much-odor-about-trash/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/06/11/common-council-meeting-of-june-10th/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/06/10/biggest-whopper-of-the-year/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/06/04/trash-is-in-the-news/

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The Movie. At least the trailer. From the director who brought us Wordplay, the smart film about people who live to solve crossword puzzles, we get a big budget feature on economics.

Most of the time we point fingers at the poltical flunkies of all flavors who have spent our way into a $9.5 trillion dollar deficit. But it starts with us. Every time we buy something manufactured in China, or India or where ever, we are in fact contributing to the national deficit. How we got there, and that shopping cart of made elsewhere consumables is just as much a contributing factor is answered in the movie.

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Today the Mayor held a press conference to announce that at long last, the Solid Waste disposal contract was signed with City Carting. Technically, the Mayor did it yesterday, but today he announced it. So no staged ceremonially signing. Instead, the Mayor was armed with documents and ain’t-got-no-statisfaction with State Rep. Bruce Morris. And Amanda Brown too.

“As you know we had a long process to determine who would handled our trash over the next five years,” explained Mayor Richard Moccia. Moccia explained that the contract was signed after a thorough review by Holland and Knight, the law firm hired by the Common Council.

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The Norwalk RTC has posted the documents obtained as part of the FOIA request of Amanda Brown. They are interesting is that the chain of headers is worth looking into. That would be geek-speak for looking at who sent what to whom. But that will come later as it will take time to review and assess. But I am somewhat disturbed after the first reading that in typical Norwalk fashion, the thrust of investigation has been brought down to the local level as if the rule of law somehow doesn’t apply in Norwalk.

For those interested the link is here.

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