Feb. 24 through March 3

Written by Greenwich Post Staff
Wednesday, 23 February 2011 10:28

Thursday, Feb. 24

7:30 a.m. — Retirement Board, Gisborne Room

9 — PTA Council Wellness Committee, Mazza Room

5 p.m. — Parking ticket hearings, Mazza Room

5:30 — Men’s Softball, Cone Room

7 — Board of Education, New Lebanon School

Friday, Feb. 25

9 a.m. — Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET) Budget Committee Department Review, Cone Room

9:30 — Board of Realtors, Meeting Room

10 — Parking ticket hearings, Mazza Room

Monday. Feb. 28

9 a.m. — BET Budget Committee Consolidation Day, Cone Room

5:30 p.m. — Nathaniel Witherell Board Meeting, Nathaniel Witherell Board Room

7:30 — Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Agency, Meeting Room

Tuesday, March 1

8:30 a.m. — Board of Assessment Appeals, Mazza Room

4:30 — Fire Department Staff, Cone Room

7:30 — Downtown Planning Committee, Meeting Room

Wednesday, March 2

8:30 a.m. — Board of Assessment Appeals, Mazza Room

9 — BET Budget Committee Decision Day 1, Cone Room

Noon — Selectmen’s Nominations Advisory Committee, Gisborne Room

7:30 — Architectural Review Committee, Cone Room

7:30 — Republican Town Committee, Mazza Room

7:30 — Representative Town Meeting Public Works Committee, Gisborne Room

Thursday, March 3

8:30 a.m. — Board of Assessment Appeals, Mazza Room

9 — BET Budget Committee Decision Day 2, Cone Room

10 — Board of Selectmen, Meeting Room

5 p.m. — Parking ticket hearings, Mazza Room

7 — Conservation Commission, Meeting Room

7 — Time for Lyme Support Group, Mazza Room

All meetings take place at Town Hall unless otherwise noted.

State Public Budget Hearing Calendar

Monday, 21 February 2011 17:17

Appropriations Committee – Public Budget Hearings

Wednesday, February 23

6:30 pm, LOB Room 2D

Subject matter: General Government, Regulation and Protection

Thursday, February 24

6:30 pm, LOB Room 2C

Subject matter:  Conservation and Development

Friday, February 25

6:00 pm, LOB Room 2D

Subject matter:  General Government, Transportation

Monday, February 28 5:00 pm, LOB Room 2C

Subject matter:  Higher Education

Tuesday, March 1

6:30 pm, LOB Room 2C

Subject matter:  Elementary and Secondary Education

Wednesday, March 2

3:00 pm, LOB Room 2C

Subject matter:  Health and Hospitals

Thursday, March 3

6:30 pm, LOB Room 2C

Subject matter:  Judicial and Corrections

Friday, March 4 5:0 pm, LOB Room 2C

Subject matter:  Human Services

Information: http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/menu/CommDocList.asp?comm_code=APP&doc_type=pha

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Lessons from the Presidents

Written by Andrew Szabo
Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:00

In this series, we have examined the economic policies of U.S. Presidents since Herbert Hoover. It’s time to sum up and look to the future.

Several patterns have emerged. The first relates to “coalition building.” We have seen how politicians stir positive and negative elements into a customized brew that is meant to energize their supporters. The positive elements state “who and what we are for,” the element of affinity in politics. Since the New Deal, the Democrats have championed the working class and lower middle class and their interests. The Republicans have identified themselves with the business class and upper middle class. The negative element, “who we are against,” the stirring of social resentment, has been more volatile as to its targets. Prominent periods of negative politics include the McCarthy era and the Nixonian era.

A cure for a common scourge

Written by Joe Pisani
Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:00

When modern science isn’t solving problems like preventing an asteroid attack on Planet Earth or developing more effective pesticides to stem the bedbug invasion of New York City, it concentrates on really important challenges, like ending a scourge that has afflicted mankind from Julius Caesar to Bruce Willis — male-pattern baldness.

An estimated 40 million American men — two out of three — suffer from some baldness, along with 30 million women.

The good news is experts predict a cure within 10 years, which means guys won’t have to shave their heads anymore to look like Mussolini or Sinead O’Connor.