Posts under ‘Politics’

Well, the House narrowly passed the 1,995 page “Affordable Health Care for America Act” close to midnight on Saturday night. There was no 72-hour online version of the bill, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi had promised. There was no “open door” discussion with C-SPAN in the room, as candidate Obama had promised. And click here to [...]

The Greenwich Post will be endorsing Democrat Bill Grad for Tax Collector in tomorrow’s paper. The Officer of Tax collector is a three way race this year between Democrat Bill Grad, Republican Tod Laudonia, and Republican turned Democrat Rick Novakowski,who is running as an independent after being defeated by Grad in the Democratic primary.

THE FOLLOWING POST BY THIS AUTHOR APPEARS ON the Fox Forum. [If the Fox Forum link doesn't work, cut and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/10/16/frank-trotta-fox-news-pandora/] Pandora is a free Internet “radio station” customized for the individual listener. It bills itself as a “new kind of radio station that plays only the music you [...]

For the second time in as many months, the new Superintendent of Greenwich Schools has proven himself a pragmatic realist and not a starry-eye ideologue.  How refreshing. Last week Sidney Freund, the Superintendent of Greenwich Schools, nixed a contest encouraging kids to ride bikes to school.  The Democrat candidate for First Selectman criticized the Board of [...]