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Daily Archives: May 12th, 2010

Vindication

From the Day: The town’s Representative Town Meeting voted Tuesday night to cut from the 2010-2011 budget any appropriation for the Groton Long Point police force. Groton Long Point had requested $208,000, about 31 percent of its police budget, and the Groton Town Council included that request in the budget it passed last month. The […]

I’m rethinking…

My support for the Audit the Fed legislation, that is. It passed the Senate 96-0. It’s a bad sign-that unanimous vote. I’ve noticed in the past that substantive legislation that passes unanimously or near unanimously usually brings trouble. Consider the Patriot Act (though we can take some comfort from the surprisingly large numbers of Dems […]