So, you are now blaming the rail accident on a tax break for major oil companies? You also apparently believe that Rell gave major tax breaks to oil companies. I don't believe that we have any oil refineries in Connecticut. While the major oil corporations do conduct business in our state, I'd like to see evidence that the State of Connecticut gave major oil companies tax breaks. The State has control over State taxes, they do not have control over Federal taxes. That would limit the State to the PILOT (Payment In Lieu of Taxes) payments which generally are for colleges, hospitals and other State owned facilities within any given municipality. Oil companies would not qualify for that program. And anyway, Malloy cut that out of the State budget, so our cities will receive that much less from the State for having NCC and Norwalk Hospital in town. View Comment

Mr. Nelson, Clearly you either know nothing about how the State works or you think that Malloy personally came down and did the work. And since you cut and pasted your mis-information from another thread, I will do likewise. The facts don't change. Oh, yeah, and before Irish Girl claims there's a virus, please feel free to search a list of the CT Governors in your own choice of search engines. As I said elsewhere... The New York/New Haven line is managed by the Connecticut Department of Transportation: Office of Rails. Over the past five or six years, there have been major replacements and repairs underway. Both the New Canaan and the Danbury spur lines have experienced major work, as have a number of railroad bridges. Fairfield just opened a brand new second station not too far from where the derailment happened and it looks like Bridgeport may also be getting a second station. Those kinds of projects do not happen overnight. It takes planning and permits. As a matter of fact, let's talk a bit more about the work that has taken place on the New York/New Haven line. Here's what the webpage for ConnDOT:Office of Rails says: The Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT) with the Office of Policy and Management (OPM) developed a multi-faceted integrated approach to replace the current Rail Car Fleet. The ConnDOT proposal became Senate Bill 2000, which was signed into law on July 1, 2005. The $1.3 billion Transportation Improvement Program provides for the design and purchase of 342 passenger cars for the New Haven Line as well as a new rail maintenance facility and other public transportation initiatives. Specifically the first Transportation Package passed in 2005 included: $667 million for new rail cars on the New Haven Line, $300 million for new rail maintenance facilities, $187 million for “congestion mitigation” measures on Interstate 95 from Greenwich to North Stonington, $150 million for improvements to I-84 and I-91, as well as other state roads and highways, $7.5 million for new transit buses. http://www.ct.gov/dot/cwp/view.asp?a=1386&q=316722 Oh yeah, and Malloy was not the Governor of the State of Connecticut in 2005, Jodi Rell was. And back in 2000 when the proposals first came forward, Rowland was the Governor. Nice try. View Comment

Interesting how you dismiss FACTS as lies and propaganda. If Rowland and Rell were not governors in 2000 and 2005 respectively, who was? It wasn't Weicker, that's for sure. Clearly, you live in an alternate universe. I'm not sure where that is located and quite truthfully, I don't even want to know. View Comment

Steve, I agree with you but there are those who look at the posts and take what they read for gospel truth. Some of those who post try to prevent others from finding out the facts by stating there's a virus on any given link. Of course, anyone who has at least a working knowledge of computers and the Internet knows how to use the search bar for either Google, Bing or Yahoo. The thing that floors me is that these posters persist in putting up blatant lies that are so easily disproved simply by typing in something like "List of Connecticut Governors" or even ConnDotRail (the shortened form of Connecticut Department of Transportation: Office of Rails) in the search bar to actually find out the facts. And of course, once the actual truth or facts are posted, their response is is to call me a liar. I'm like..."For real? Is that the best you can do?" They gotta be wearing tin foil hats for sure. I have to admit though, my favorite exchange was about Rev. Mann when I mentioned she'd been recognized by the NPD for her contributions prior to the whole beach riot mess. Of course, the immediate response following that post was predictably that I was a liar. Oh, well, sorry guys, that statement came directly off her biography webpage. I laughed for about half a day over that one. And when Timmy runs out of snappy (ha!) replies or realizes he's been backed into a corner by facts, he flips over to the sex thing and posts 20 posts about his supposed sex life, which I'm willing to bet none of us are interested in. It's pretty sad really, but I'm not going to let Timmy & Co. get away with smearing people and mis-representing facts. By the way, how many user names is he up to these days? I lost count. View Comment

No, I thought it was you! View Comment

Oh, yuck! There's a virus on that page!!!!!!!! So, you are now blaming the rail accident on a tax break for major oil companies? And by the way, your original post spoke about the fact that RELL ignored the infrastructure and caused the train accident. Rell has not been in office since 2011. My calendar says it's 2013. You also stated that Rell gave major tax breaks to oil companies. I don't believe that we have any oil refineries in Connecticut. While the major oil corporations do conduct business in our state, I'd like to see evidence that the State of Connecticut gave major oil companies tax breaks. View Comment

Ah, our friend from La-La land checks in! Nice try! The link to Wikipedia is a list of our governors from a non State source and there is no virus at the State website. You can call it all a lie, but it does not change the fact that Malloy was not the Governor in 2000 when the legislation was passed for these projects or 2005 when the projects were funded. However, here's the link to the Connecticut State Library page listing all our Governors since the 1600. And neither the dates nor the names change. http://www.cslib.org/gov/ View Comment

And you know this how? The New York/New Haven line is managed by the Connecticut Department of Transportation: Office of Rails. Over the past five or six years, there have been major replacements and repairs underway. Both the New Canaan and the Danbury spur lines have experienced major work, as have a number of railroad bridges. Fairfield just opened a brand new second station not too far from where the derailment happened and it looks like Bridgeport may also be getting a second station. Those kinds of projects do not happen overnight. It takes planning and permits. As a matter of fact, let's talk a bit more about the work that has taken place on the New York/New Haven line. Here's what the webpage for ConnDOT:Office of Rails says: The Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT) with the Office of Policy and Management (OPM) developed a multi-faceted integrated approach to replace the current Rail Car Fleet. The ConnDOT proposal became Senate Bill 2000, which was signed into law on July 1, 2005. The $1.3 billion Transportation Improvement Program provides for the design and purchase of 342 passenger cars for the New Haven Line as well as a new rail maintenance facility and other public transportation initiatives. Specifically the first Transportation Package passed in 2005 included: $667 million for new rail cars on the New Haven Line, $300 million for new rail maintenance facilities, $187 million for “congestion mitigation” measures on Interstate 95 from Greenwich to North Stonington, $150 million for improvements to I-84 and I-91, as well as other state roads and highways, $7.5 million for new transit buses. http://www.ct.gov/dot/cwp/view.asp?a=1386&q=316722 Oh yeah, and Malloy was not the Governor of the State of Connecticut in 2005, Jodi Rell was. And back in 2000 when the proposals first came forward, Rowland was the Governor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Connecticut Nice try. View Comment

Broad, - you're right. I had to laugh. I grew up with the same issues. When we had backyard picnics, the salads containing mayo were only served in the house and if you had any, you'd better eat it quick 'cause Ptomaine would get you if you didn't watch out! For the life of me, I couldn't figure out why Ptomaine like potato salad and cole slaw so much. I think I was about 10 or 11 before I figured out that Ptomaine wasn't some monster from the black lagoon, but really food poisoning. Maybe that's why I prefer the German versions with oil and vinegar rather than mayo. Of course, today, we can actually identify the exact strain of E. coli or salmonella that caused the illness. The thing that scares me the most is that a couple of the last major outbreaks of E. coli have been traced back to green, leafy vegetables like lettuce and I think even tomatoes were identified as the source for one outbreak. How the heck did we survive back in the day?? View Comment

Sad, I'm not arguing with you, but I will say that I have heard Rep. Bruce Morris speak about this issue at length and he cautioned people that it's easy to mistake some situations, such as a child who lives in Norwalk returning from a visit with a divorced parent who does not reside in Norwalk. Also, there are magnet schools in Norwalk and the Center for Global Studies at McMahon. I think the CGS is actually regional, so the students come from all over the county. Actually, Rep. Morris probably would be the best resource to check with about the situation with the out of district students. Regarding Ms. McDowell and her unfortunate choices, you are correct that I did not know she had been registered at the Open Door, but I'm still not clear on why she had her son listed as living in the housing development with someone who was not related. And finally, I totally agree that the McDowell situation and this one are very sad. View Comment

We just recently donated a large amount of brown rice that had gone rancid to a friend's flock of chickens. (Take away - store brown rice in freezer) And I'm saving egg cartons for someone else who has more eggs than cartons. Right now, there are two large cake containers from past birthday parties that are waiting to be used as mini greenhouses. Our empty ice cream containers (a true sacrifice for the cause) are used for extra cooking grease containers. It's finally clicked with my family that milk that has gone sour is the basis for sour dough bread. So I get the recycling concept. But I would be cautious about food for human consumption. It's one thing for me to collect all the untouched olives and pickles from my family's plates at a restaurant and a whole different thing to take food from plates of diners you don't know. Food from garbage cans? To me, that an invitation for ptomaine poisoning, especially as the weather gets warmer. View Comment

You need to actually read the documents. Moccia and Marks had nothing to do with the McDowell situation. The investigation was started by the Norwalk Housing Authority because they had a tenant who was claiming an unrelated minor living in her unit. That is what triggered the investigation, not anything else. That tenant was also apparently running a pharmaceutical distribution business also, making her a less than desirable tenant. HUD had some very strict rules about this. That's what started it all, not Mayor Moccia, and not Superintendent Marks or anyone in NPS. If Ms. McDowell had registered with the Open Door, her child could have attended the school with no problem. But she didn't. View Comment

Ken, while I would agree with you most of the time, we spent about four months living in the neighborhood immediately adjacent to Fillow Street and I gotta say that I learned to avoid Fillow Street simply because it was too dangerous to drive in many weather situations. It's narrow, it's twisty and by God, it's down right scary sometimes in the snow and ice. I had two serious slides, one on wet leaves and one on black ice. That was enough for me. I don't think it's safe to have ANY kind of public facility, school, church, mosque, YMCA, library, on that road. View Comment

I hope she remembers to give Tanya McDowell our best when she gets to the Big House. View Comment

The prisons issue frequently these wonderfully svelte orange jumpsuits nowadays. So flattering and eye catching! View Comment

Hope you like the color orange, Ms. Wills, because it looks like that's the direction you are headed in. View Comment

"Viral" means when I'm waiting in a municipal office 15 miles away from Norwalk and I see it on the news crawl for Channel 8, then it turns up on Channel 12, and I hear about it on WEBE during the drive home. Then, the next morning, I see it on the Internet news and get two emails from out of state friends, asking me how close High Street is from where I live. That's viral. View Comment

For real? You think it was the Police Department's fault? Un - fricking - believable! View Comment

For someone with an allergy to eggs, a mix up like that could be life threatening. But at the same time, I understand where you are coming from. View Comment

Actually, you are the one who is the Spin Doctor because according to you, Moccia is responsible for what the State Department of Education hands down and the health care bill that Congress passed. Amazing, simply amazing. If you think this tax increase is high, just wait til the Affordable Health Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) kicks in. Trust me, you ain't seen nothing, yet. Oh, yeah, and by the way, Moccia had nothing to do with it. View Comment