Carsten Smythe
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It's almost 10 hours into the Housing Committee meeting to dicuss bills to move to the floor for a vote of the entire assembly. 35 BILLS! Started with Dummy Bills went to public hearing and said nothing and now has some language that has been dumped in from a few other bills
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Restoration Proposed after “Devastating” Unauthorized Cutting and Wetlands Violations https://t.co/fNmnEaWet6 via @GWCHFreePress Hey @GovNedLamont - any comment on your illegal clear cutting of trees to improve the view at your house in Greenwich? @CTGOP @GreenwichRTC
greenwichfreepress.com
A total of 186 trees over 4-inch DBH were removed; others were limbed, plus an unquantified amount of shrubs on Ashton Drive properties including Governor Lamont's. Some tree cutting stemmed from...
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Biden DELAYS menthol cigarette ban under political pressure https://t.co/mnpuLCpjth via @MailOnline Who put out their Kools on my carpet?
dailymail.co.uk
The Biden administration proposed an outright ban on menthol cigarettes, but is now expected to put off a final rule until March, amid political pressure and diminishing African American support.
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Day #42 for the Hamas Hostages. I guess were going to have to wait for their release until the Inauguration Day of a real President. Just like in 1980-81. #JimmyCarterRedux
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Sorry, but whoever cast Hercule Flambeau from Father Brown as the baddie made a mistake. #AroundTheWorldIn80Days
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Maybe they don't need that new $16 billion tunnel to Penn Station after all......
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These five people are allowed to tweet but one of America’s oldest newspapers can’t https://t.co/yVeeajLEBh
#FoxNews
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Hundreds pack St. Marks Place to drink, party despite coronavirus https://t.co/mU4T6cxD3p via @nypost No NYPD intervention here but @NYCMayor never seems to miss an opportunity to chase kids from the playground.
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NYPD Chief of Department speaks out, 'outraged' at Gov. Andrew Cuomo https://t.co/gAINYgNfXa via @nypmetro @GinSecurities - that's comforting - even those they arrest are immediately released due to bail reform since looting (absent a gun) doesn't count
nypost.com
Chief Terence Monahan said he had slept for only three hours since the fifth night of protests and that all his guys are "cut up" from struggling with troublemakers in the city.
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Kid from Greenwich. Andover grad. Leaves Dartmouth senior year to enlist because it’s the right thing. Dies of his wounds calling in arty on VC to support his ARVN unit. This is why we have #MemorialDay
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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain accepting the surrender at Appomattox. Painting in our yacht club lobby as the 5th Corps flag with the Maltese Cross was the basis for our club burgee.
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Going to follow the Clinton playbook I see. Next up, a donation to their new foundation.
Canadian billionaire Frank Giustra providing luxe hideout for Prince Harry, Meghan Markle https://t.co/ps9sV4cCTs
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Chelsea Clinton’s IAC Stock Is Now Worth $9 Million https://t.co/uP8V5w2Jv6 via @BarronsOnline
barrons.com
Clinton, who joined IAC/InterActiveCorp’s board in 2011, has seen the value of her shares surge. The stock of the Internet-brands firm has trounced the S&P 500.
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Got to hand it to LA - Police Protective League beats NYC's Patrolmens Benevolent Association as a union name hands down. The LIRR's Brotherhood of Car Men is the muni union GOAT though. #muniland
“If this allegation is true, then the behavior exhibited by this officer is not only wrong, but extremely disturbing,” the board of directors for the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the police officers’ union, said in a statement
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Surprise, surprise - the Dems in the CT Assembly don't want to go on the @GovNedLamont debt diet. Time for CT GO bond spreads to widen a little. #muniland
Here are the highlights of the new state spending proposal:
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May have to extend my trip to the UK next month - Oxford Union debate for 4th week (May 23) is "This House Prefers Trump's Foreign Policy to Obama's" Should be entertaining.
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Who says "The Big Lebowski" wasn't realistic?
A school note left in a stolen car with a student's name on it led to the arrest of a 15-year-old on larceny charges.
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So yet another CT Gov election where the deciding Dem victory margin comes from "late ballots" in Bridgeport or New Haven. Why aren't there every any late ballots from Greenwich?
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If "white kids get better LORs than Asian kids" is the best that the head of admissions can do to explain the historic skewing of their personal ranking data, @Harvard should just give up now.
The latest from @nellgluckman at the Harvard admissions trial: What happened when the university's dean of admissions took the stand.
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