Governor Rell
Governor Rell is proposing steps to reduce the budget gap:
In an attempt to halt the 2010 budget’s slide into deficit, Gov. M. Jodi Rell released a $337 million package of proposed budget cuts Tuesday afternoon, slashing funding to programs for the poor and sick, [...]
This poorly conceived money grab deserves your attention Woodstock citizens.
First, let’s take a look at the minutes of the meetings that have been conducted over the last two years or so- they can be found -HERE-. "Methodology" is not a term that can be used to describe these proceedings.
The immediate concern [...]
Connecticut Republican Party Chairman Chris HealyThe traditional Thanksgiving story is that some time in the fall of 1621, the settlers at Plymouth, Mass., held a feast to thank God they'd survived their harrowing first year in the New World.
They invited neighboring Indians, who had taught them agricultural skills critical to their' [...]
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 24 Nov 2009 at 05:51:54 PM GMT is: $12,025,222,873,469.89
The estimated population of the United States is 307,346,401, so each citizen's share of this debt is $39,125.96.
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $3.83 billion per day since September 28, 2007!
Concerned? Then' [...]
Oy vey.
“Students and their families should not have to choose between attending graduation and being subjected to proselytizing religious messages,” said Alex Luchenitser, senior litigation counsel for Americans United, in a statement Wednesday. “Yet that is exactly the choice that the Enfield Schools impose on students and their families.”
From Connecticut House of Prayer:
This is a morning of prophetic and/or “harp & bowl” style of worship and intercession. As described in Tommy Tenney’s book, we spend one day each month “chasing after God”…..chasing the One Who chases after us! A New Song is being released in the land [...]
Covenant Church of Easton will host an interdenominational Bible study presented in four, 15-week segments covering a range of topics, including: Discipleship Defined, Created and Called by God, The Disintegration of Relationships, The Grace of God Provides a Way of Escape, and others.
Courses are held Thursdays beginning January 14 through [...]
Update: New London Day 10/27/09-
Rell plan would cut budget by $337M: Governor's targets include aid to towns, programs for poor
Over the summer hardly a day went by without headlines of the financial disaster that had been created by over-spending in California – over regulating and over taxation' [...]
From: New Fairfield Citizen-News, November 18, 2009
Stop Digging
Why It’s Time To Try A Different Kind Of Budget
Not even two months have passed since the new state budget was implemented, and yet the State of Connecticut already finds itself $624 million in the red.
To remedy this situation, [...]
Rasmussen reports Obama's Presidential Approval Index fell to -15. Another record low.
Rasmussen's Obama Approval Index has now been in negative double digits for nine straight days. Last week the index stood at the previous record low, -14, for three consecutive days.
According to Rasmussen, support [...]
From the Washington Post
And so it came to pass that Landrieu walked onto the Senate floor midafternoon Saturday to announce her aye vote — and to trumpet the financial “fix” she had arranged for Louisiana. “I am not going to be defensive,” she declared. “And it’s not [...]
The town leaf pickup crew came by this morning and vacuumed the leaves from the curb. As I always do I started thinking about the cost of the service.
I noticed there was one truck, with a driver, one vacuum operator, three rakers and two supervisors in town pickups. 7 people [...]
Video: 11-09-09 Town Council Swearing In/Organizational Meeting.
[...]Video: 11-09-09 Town Council Swearing In/Organizational Meeting.
I have been trying to post this for two weeks and finally got it up. Blip.tv was not loving this video and kept breaking it off around 20 minutes.
This is the swearing in of our newly elected officials. The Town Council selects a [...]
Will a tax revolt this be the ultimate trickle-down economic effect? Revenue is drying up not only at the Federal level but is now doing so, as was inevitable, at the State and local levels. I’ll go out on a [...]
Help support Bethel Temple Church Of God on Frank Street, in need of about $6,000 to replace stolen equipment.
Pastor Larry Pinkard will invoke the prophet Nehemiah from the pulpit Sunday — and tell a tale about how walls will be rebuilt on Frank Street.
The sermon will touch on the tale [...]
Few things are as detestable as exploiting certain groups for your own personal political gain. At the lowest levels of respectability would be the use of our nation's veterans of the armed forces to further your own political exposure.On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”
The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have [...]
Now for something totally different....
From The Onion...
