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Sunday, December 13, 2009
State Sen. Mary Ann Handley, D-Manchester, announced Friday she will not run for another term, leaving the Fourth State Senate district open to a potential Republican pickup in 2010.Sunday, December 13, 2009
State Sen. Mary Ann Handley, D-Manchester, announced Friday she will not run for another term, leaving the Fourth State Senate district open to a potential Republican pickup in 2010.
Handley, 73, who was one of most pro-public sector union legislators at the Capitol, sited a desire to enjoy more time in her community. [...]
Saturday, December 12, 2009
What we know about climate change. Lifted from the Cato Institute’s Website by Andrei Illarionov. Worth the read, the whole thing.
As the Copenhagen Climate Conference is taking place, it is appropriate to clarify once again what is more or less accurately known about the climate of our planet and about climate change.
Obviously, a [...]
Monday, December 7, 2009
The aim is to give a new as yet unnamed U.N. body the power to directly intervene in the financial, economic, tax and environmental affairs of all the nations that sign the Copenhagen treaty.
The reason for the power grab is clear enough: Clause after complicated clause of the draft treaty requires developed countries to pay [...]
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Just some interesting statistics from the November 2009 Marlborough election.
There were approximately 1150 voters who turned out at the polls out of about 4,200 who are registered, which was a 27.4% turnout.
The registered voters in Marlborough are comprised of:
Democrat: 32% (Up from previous years when it used to be about 29%)
Republican 24% (Down from previous [...]
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
The Chinese News media is rather fasinated with the Tiger Woods crash and possible extra affairs of the billionaire golfer. Lacking real video, they simulated the accident.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Just months after the new budget was passed. You may remember Connecticut was one of the last to pass a state budget. Unlike the Federal Government, the state government does not have a Federal Reserve nor currency printing presses and can not by law run a deficit. At least you have to [...]
Thursday, November 26, 2009
A movie of San Francisco, 1905 driving down market street.
At this point in time (1905) there were less than 1 billion people on the entire planet. The average life expectancy? in the U.S. was 47 years and there were only about 8000 cars. We’re all looking at people who earned a living on 22 cents [...]
Monday, November 23, 2009
That we could succeed by concentrating, for example, on complex financial instruments while abandoning the industrial base that sustained so many American families.
I clearly remember over 20 years ago as I drove to my job at UTC, an elected official announcing that Connecticut’s future lay in the service industry, not manufacturing. Who made that [...]
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Pope Manufacturing Company is a manufacturing company started by Albert Augustus Pope in Hartford, CT. The company began with the introduction of the “Columbia High Wheeler” bicycle in 1878. Pope bought Pierre Lallement’s original patent for the bicycle, and aggressively bought all other bicycle patents he could find, amassing a fortune by restricting the types [...]
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Staffers on Capitol Hill were calling it the Louisiana Purchase.
On the eve of Saturday’s showdown in the Senate over health-care reform, Democratic leaders still hadn’t secured the support of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of the 60 votes needed to keep the legislation alive. The wavering lawmaker was offered a sweetener: at least $100 million [...]
