COMMENTARY: Weston's ATBM: Where are all the people?

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Written by Nina Daniel, Weston for Fiscal Responsibility
Thursday, 18 March 2010 11:58

In a democracy, decisions are not always made by a majority of the people. They are made by a majority of the people willing to show up to make themselves heard and to vote — a very different thing!

   

EDITORIAL: Double header

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Written by Kimberly Donnelly
Thursday, 18 March 2010 11:57

Think of March 23 as Two-for-Tuesday or Two-for-One Night at the Weston Middle School cafeteria — not for the meals, for the meetings.

   

COMMENTARY: Get counted! Return your census survey

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Written by Jim Himes, U.S. Congressman
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 15:53

This week, families across Connecticut will receive in the mail a short, 10-question form from the 2010 Census. I encourage everyone to complete their survey and return it promptly.

   

SENATE CIRCLE: Spending cap not just words, it’s the will of the people

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Written by Toni Bocher, State Senator
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 15:52

The General Assembly responded to the state’s budget crisis in 1991 by creating the personal income tax, and calmed fears that this new tax would lead to out-of-control spending and irresponsible tax increases by promising to adhere to a spending cap.

   

EDITORIAL: Making sense

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Written by Kimberly Donnelly
Wednesday, 03 March 2010 14:15

The country has been immersed in endless discussion of late about health care reform. Insurance bids received for Weston town and school employees are evidence that what is actually needed is not health care reform, but health insurance reform.

   

COMMENTARY: The IRS is not a faceless bureaucracy

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Written by Doug Shulman, Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service
Wednesday, 03 March 2010 14:11

On Feb. 18, a small plane was intentionally crashed into a building in Austin, Texas, where almost 200 IRS employees work. This wanton act of violence took the life of Vernon Hunter, 68, who served his nation as an IRS employee for almost three decades.

   
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