Fairfield County residents will enjoy a Christmas Concert with Pivot Ministries at the Norwalk YMCA, 370 West Avenue, tomorrow from 6 pm to 8 pm. This great event, will include a Christmas Carol Sing-a-Long. Admission is free!
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And according to Rasmussen, Senator Dodd would lose to every Republican, even Peter Schiff, whose financial media stardom hasn’t resulted in any name recognition in Nutmegland.
Former GOP Congressman Rob Simmons is still his toughest opponent, leading Dodd 48% to 35%. Seven percent (7%) prefer some other candidate in this contest, and 11% are undecided. Those figures are a slight improvement for Simmons since September.
The newest Republican in the race, Linda McMahon, the ex-CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, earns 44% of the vote to Dodd’s 38%. Eight percent (8%) opt for another candidate, with nine percent (9%) not sure.
Long-shot candidate Peter Shiff, the widely-known president of Euro Pacific Capital, is essentially even with Dodd and holds a one-point edge, 40% to 39%. In their race, eight percent (8%) like some other candidate, and 14% are undecided.
Tags: 2010, connecticut, dodd, election, McMahon, politics, senate, simmons
More hard choices coming up. These are only some of the first.
Chantal Kouoh’s voice cracked Tuesday as she said how disappointed she was to be shut out of a state-subsidized nurse-training program because of budget cuts.
“I feel like a part of my life is gone,” she said to an audience of other students, state legislators, journalists and nurse advocates at a press conference at the Legislative Office Building organized by District 1199, New England Health Care Employees Union.
“As a single mother with a very low income, I really can’t afford to go to a private program.”
Tags: budget, connecticut, economy
Heath Fahle at Connecticut Local Politics summarizes our State’s problem as only a taciturn New Englander can do: we have no money.
Tags: budget, connecticut, economy, taxes
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, local governments and state agencies….
“It is deeply painful even to suggest these cuts – and yet they are unquestionably necessary,” Rell said in a written statement released with her budget plan. “State government cannot afford, literally or figuratively, to allow this budget – which has only been in effect a few short months – to grow any further out of balance.”
Many of Rell’s proposals will require legislative approval, and she said she would call lawmakers back to the Capitol to enact cuts soon. A Senate aide said they anticipated reconvening what has come to seem like an endless budget debate sometime in mid-December.
Democratic leaders did not immediately respond to the substance of Rell’s proposed cuts, saying they would spend the coming days reviewing her plans with their colleagues.
More here at the New London Day.
Tags: budget, connecticut, economy, rell, taxes
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.”
Read more here if you can stand it.
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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 of Connecticut. Come and sing the New Song with us!
Time and Location: Saturday, November 28, 2009, 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, at Wellspring Church, 222 Lincoln Street, Kensington (go to www.wellspring.net for directions).
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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 April 29, 2010 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Covenant Church of Easton, 1 Sport Hill Road, Easton, (at exit 46 off the Merritt Parkway). To register or for further information please contact Jan Buchanan, call2disciple Northeast Coordinator at 203.383.9320 or email jbuchanan at arielpawleys.org.
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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 limb and predict that the local level is where the pushback on taxes will occur, not only here but nationwide.
Here’s a little foreshadowing of the fun that awaits us in 2010: a number of stories from around the State which show us why we are about to become California – or one of many Californias.
The Town of Winchester uncovers a “mystery” problem:
The town of Winchester’s budget situation is so bad that there may not be enough money to make payroll next month, according to the newly elected Winchester Board of Selectmen, which voted to set up a process that would allow the town to borrow up to $2.5 million against future tax payments in order to keep the town running.
The process involves using tax-anticipation notes to pay for budget shortfalls, which may reach a critical point next month. If the town goes ahead with the plan, a special town meeting and referendum would be required to allow the town to borrow against future proceeds.
Mayor Candy Perez said she first heard about the seriousness of the budget problem on Nov. 4, (emphasis added) the day after this year’s municipal election, when then-Town Manager Keith Robbins said the crisis was bad enough to warrant tax-anticipation notes. Robbins submitted his letter of resignation to Perez a week later.
In Naugatuck, there are some unhappy days at the Board of Ed, and a $2 million shortfall looming.
Teachers overwhelmingly condemned the performance of embattled Superintendent John Tindall-Gibson Thursday, while the school board continued to search for ways to make up a projected $2 million budget deficit.
The Naugatuck Teachers’ League voted 320-8 in a symbolic gesture to show they have no confidence in the 62-year-old school chief, who has been here since September 2006.
We know where that ends.
And looming Statewide… a projected $3.2 billion shortfall in 2012, according to the State’s Office of Fiscal Analysis. (Click to download as PDF or view above.)
Tags: budget, connecticut, economy, naugatuck, taxes, winchester
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 of two houses of worship attacked by evildoers, one in biblical times, one in 2009.
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