After being turned down in 2005, Fairfield’s Black Rock Congregational Church has received permission for a major expansion from the Town of Fairfield’s Inland Wetlands Commission. At 85,000 square feet, the new church will be two and a half times as large as the present 34,000 square foot facility. Black Rock is one of Connecticut’s largest Evangelical congregations. Details here.
Although, as Tom Blumer points out in the NewsBusters blog, the media may be oddly reluctant to remember that there was a U. S. Supreme Court case – and a person – named Kelo.
Superior Court Judge Barry Stevens has ruled that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport must release thousands of pages of documents relating to allegations of sexual abuse by priests.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court ended nearly a decade of appeals by the diocese in its efforts to block public access to more than 12,000 pages from 23 lawsuits against six priests.
While the nation’s highest court ordered the diocese to turn over the documents, it let stand a lower court ruling that a small segment of the records dealing with priests’ medical records and seven priests not named in the lawsuits could remain sealed.
More here from the Connecticut Post.
She will be remembered well. Lt. Gov. Fedele will definitely be a candidate, as he states in this Channel 8 video.
Whoever wins will need our prayers for the thankless task that awaits – dealing with Connecticut’s seemingly intractable budgetary and revenue problems.
The income tax raised nearly $1.3 billion less than budgeted in the last fiscal year, which ended in a record $925.6 million deficit. The state government is covering that shortfall with borrowed money.
The current year is showing no signs of improvement.
Are we on our way to being the next California? Read more here at the Republican-American.
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Republican candidates prevailed in most major races yesterday and, as Vincent at Connecticut Local Politics points out, Connecticut exemplified the trend better than anywhere.
Like New Jersey, we are a deeply blue state, so to see the GOP win in places like Stamford and Norwich and Stratford shows that something major was going on last night. (The only town that completely bucked the trend was West Hartford. Come on folks, get with it.)
What happened was a revolt against overspending. The GOP runs best in the Northeast when it sticks to three issues — taxes, limited government, and crime. In this economic climate, the party pounded the financial management issue, blaming Democratic mayors and councils for overspending during a recession. It clearly resonated. For example, in my hometown of Fairfield, the RTM swung from 27-23 Democratic to 38-12 Republican, and the GOP won almost all the open board seats (finance, education) as well….
Sure, we are a blue state, and so is New Jersey. But just because we are Democrats doesn’t mean that we like seeing the government nationalize the auto industry, or take over the health care industry. Nutmeggers remain New Englanders, who believe in private enterprise, personal responsibility and thrift. Watching the government triple the deficit and have little to show for it (except for make-work featherbedding like the torn-up-for-no-reason Merritt Parkway) drives people of our mindset nuts.
I think this is sound analysis. It’s become far too easy to make bogeymen out of Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh – as if there were nothing at all a rational person could find troubling about that tripled deficit.