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I’m in-to the Charter Revision Commission that is

Thursday, June 21, 2007

I learn from the Mystic River Press that I have in fact been appointed to the Groton Charter Revision Commission. The split is 5-4 Republican, but in my experience Groton is one of the few places where party affiliation doesn’t tell you that much. We have some reasonable Republicans and some loony Democrats (I’m not […]

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The Republican brand of sympathy

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

I’m writing once again from the great State of Maine, where I was delighted to find that the place my sister is renting has wireless internet, so I won’t have to be visiting the good Sister Mary Catherine after all. Before I left this morning, I had a chance to briefly scan the Courant, and […]

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Girding for (possible) battle

Monday, June 11, 2007

I have remarked before that the Town of Groton, where I reside, has a governmental system quite a bit more complex than that outlined in the Constitution of the United States. We have a Town Manager, a Town Council, a Representative Town Meeting, and a Board of Education, not to mention seven fire districts, the […]

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Groton Federation of Democratic Women event

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Yesterday the Groton Federation of Democratic Women, over which my wife presides, hosted a “tea”. The object was to raise money, which they did, to as great an extent as we can ever do in Groton. The usual suspects were there, including State Comptroller Nancy Wyman and Attorney General Dick Blumenthal. The event took place […]

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Lou goes to Jim in friendship

Monday, June 4, 2007

It seems like you can’t go away for even a few days. If you do, you miss something good. Take this weekend, when folks in Connecticut discovered that Senate Minority Leader Louis Deluca (R-Naturally) was arrested and has now pled guilty to misdemeanor threatening charges. I was in Maine, and missed the unfolding story, an […]

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The Day exposes a lending scam

Sunday, May 20, 2007

The headline story in this morning’s Day (Predatory Lending Shatters Dreams Of Dozens Of First-Time Home Buyers) about a local lending scam is a good piece of journalism. Not only did the Day expose an egregious swindle, but it got the AG’s office to investigate, and hopefully, put an end the careers of some of […]

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The outlook isn’t brilliant in Norwich

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Like most people, I can point to very few concrete ways in which I’ve made a big difference, but by dint of my political activities I can claim a few. I’ve often joked that my gravestone will identify me as the man who kept baseball out of Groton, because I was instrumental, both in public […]

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Health Care Rally in Hartford

Sunday, May 6, 2007

My son Peter sent this picture from the Health Care Rally in Hartford yesterday. You can click on it to view a larger version. I’m somewhat embarrassed to say that we turned down his invitation to meet him up there. For reasons that don’t bear getting in to, I’ve been driving back and forth to […]

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Turning back the clock in Groton

Monday, April 30, 2007

I’m sure I’m not the only Grotonite who has noticed the undeveloped land so incongrously tucked between the library and North Road, across the street from Fitch Middle School and a stone’s throw from the Dairy Queen. It looks like an old farm and I’ve always thought that it was a miracle that it had […]

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