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P&Z Watch: Two of Three Cancer Center Applications Approved; Third May Be Approved with Conditions

“If you’re successful, there may be a lot of stress in these areas. You may find that you are parking deficient and you may find that you have brought in a lot of traffic…What troubled me the most about this process is everything is based on your operating assumptions.” – Margarita Alban, P&Z chair Continue Reading →

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Attorney General Tong Urges Court to Protect Key Provision of Voting Rights Act

“It is beyond obvious in this moment that we cannot rely on the U.S. Attorney General as the sole legal defender of our right to vote. For more than half a century, citizens have had the right to file lawsuits under the Voting Rights Act when their rights were violated. Those protections are more important now than ever, and Connecticut joins with states across the nation in urging the court to protect our rights to vote in fair elections free from discrimination.” CT Attorney General William Tong Continue Reading →

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Greenwich Wears Orange to Honor Victims and Survivors of Gun Violence

According to First Selectman Fred Camillo’s proclamation, the day honors the birthday of Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old high school student who was shot and killed as an innocent bystander in a park in Chicago in 2013. Her friends honored her memory by wearing orange on her birthday because hunters wear the color orange to protect themselves. This year would have been Pendleton’s 28th birthday. Continue Reading →

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Hopeful Democratic Candidates for November: New Faces among Familiar Ones

Moor introduced a team of fellow candidates, Rachel Khanna for Selectperson. Also, Matt DesChamps, Laura Erickson, Stephen Selbst, and Doug Fenton for the Board of Estimate and Taxation; Bob Chaney and Veronica Chiavaroli for the Board of Education; Meghan McCreary for Town Clerk; and Hale Bayram for Tax Collector. Continue Reading →

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