Milford apparently thinks it needs to revise how it handles blight issues. Stamford, according to the same Connpost.com article has a process. Norwalk’s Common Council, hasn’t quite yet figure out that having a dedicated enforcement officer might pay for itself in the sheer amount of fines that could be issued for simple things like unsecured trash and obstructed sidewalks. When was the last time the Norwalk Common Council came up with legislation?
From Connpost.com:
The city may need a “blight czar” to enforce the existing regulations covering decrepit and unsafe buildings, according to some officials.
Lately, the Norwalk Democratic Town Committee has been making news for its rather unorthodox way of putting together a slate of candidates. The Hour has been publishing the internal salvos, chiefly Bobby Burgess whining about District B, yet there’s been a glaring absence of any sign of life amongst Democratic candidates for Mayor let alone council candidates. You’d think that some would be out there pimping themselves, and that fellow Dems would be out there rallying enthusiasm or something. But here’s what DTC chair has to say about the 35 select few that populate the DTC:
This little tid bit while Congress can’t figure out how to pass a $500 billion transportation bill:
Then there’s the fact the Americans are fully willing to pay more taxes to fund infrastructure investment. In a recent poll by GOP pollster Frank Luntz, a stunning 81 percent of people said that would pay higher taxes to repair and upgrade our infrastructure. But for some reason our government doesn’t want to take us up on it. Raising the gas tax is a perfectly realistic policy choice now with pump prices still relatively cheap. At higher levels, we won’t have this option. Options are blessings — let’s not waste this one.
Bill Maher hits the nail spot on. Where’s the audacity?
I mean, selling the personal part to stay popular, I’m all for it, but you got us already. We like you, we really like you! You’re skinny and in a hurry and in love with a nice lady. But so’s Lindsay Lohan. And like Lohan, we see your name in the paper a lot, but we’re kind of wondering when you’re actually going to do something.
And it gets better, Maher is missing George W. Bush:
I was pleased to read this article on how health insurance companies invest in tobacco companies.
Health and life insurance companies in the US and abroad have nearly $4.5 billion invested in tobacco stocks, according to Harvard doctors.
“It’s the combined taxidermist and veterinarian approach: either way you get your dog back,” saysDavid Himmelstein, an internist at the Harvard Medical School and co-author of a letter published in this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Normally I leave Norwalk to Turfgrrl, for obvious reasons. However I heard the title rumored tonight at the JJB Dinner (which was a good time) and it has already been posted over on Connecticut Local Politics. I didn’t see it, but I’m told The Hour has reported this as well.
I learned of the rumor when I was approached by a couple people asking if I knew who it was. What I later heard was that Bondi has been on the outs with his fellow Democrats for some time and things have been getting worse. Specifically, Bondi is not expected to be renominated by the Dems for this fall’s slate.
Not necessarily news to those who follow things political in Norwalk, but there you have it.
There is an announcement reportedly scheduled for 11:30 AM tomorrow morning. Norwalk RTC press release here.
First off, to the person who keeps posting the same comment without bothering to make it coherent, yes I am totally biased, not bios. Secondly, posting here by me has been light because I have little time. Thus rather than force everyone here to read your comment on every article you posted on, they have been placed in moderation until I place one in the appropriate article.
Today marked the opening of the BookExpo, the book publisher’s annual trade show. The last time I attended BookExpo was in 2005, when I made a strategic move to expand my publishing domain to include the “old media” replete with dead trees. Armed with nothing more than an idea and a business card I set out to figure out the travel guide industry. Four years later not much has changed. The bulk of sales are still in printed books, instantly out dated, only now accompanied by the latest buzz term, this year its iPhone. And iPhone or blackberry have since emerged as the digital distribution point that most people feel comfortable with, but how best to deliver information? That is the niggling question. The greater question is authenticity.
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Health and life insurance companies in the US and abroad have nearly $4.5 billion invested in tobacco stocks, according to Harvard doctors.
