Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
One Hobart Drive, purchased for $5.5 million in 2008 and on the market this time since May, 2018, when it started at $4.995, cut its price today to $3.425. Decent home, custom made in 2002, location and price seem against it.
A cautionary note for anyone looking at roofing choices: the listing now states that a new cedar roof has been installed. Sixteen-year-life span for a roof costing over $100,000? Ouch.
Did this zebra give its life in vain?
6 Stanwich Lane, 19 days on market asking $1.895 million, has a contract. This sale reassures me, because the house should have sold quickly, at this price. Stanwich Lane is that very nice, quiet loop at the bottom of Stanwich Road, so close to town, with quality homes as neighbors. And, while the charms of this 1929 house were somewhat hidden when it was last on the market in 2013, you could see what it had been and could be once again. These owners brought it back, priced it well, and it sold; no surprise here, and that’s good news for other Greenwich homeowners thinking of selling their homes: there aren’t very many well-priced, under $2 homes for sale right now, and there are buyers actively seeking them. Make yours one of them, is my advice.
And a very nice yard, too, just as a bonus.
Who KNEW?
“Sales still slumping for big homes in Greenwich’s backcountry”. The paper’s bold admission demonstrates the corporate owner’s fierce determination to speak truth to power — or to the local Greenwich real estate firms who provide the bulk of GT’s advertising revenue — and is available only to the fifteen readers that comprise its “inside the paywall” constituency, but you could have heard the same news here, for free, since 2008.
49 Wildwood
49 Wildwood Drive sold Friday for $1.2 million. It started off in September, 2017 at $2.395, and lingered in that price range for too long. It looks like a deal at its closing price.
18 Tait
And 18 Tait Road, Old Greenwich, sold for $2.545. Odd little house, it wasn’t helped by last year’s opening price of $3.590.
Martha Stewart wrings her checkens’ necks because global warming or something
"My daughter eats no meat whatsoever. Her children eat no meat so we're going away for Thanksgiving this year because there's no turkey. We're going to Costa Rica," Stewart said during the Metropolitan Cooking and Entertaining Show on Saturday.
"I have eaten, as a result, much, much less meat than I ever have before and I don't miss it one bit. I also very much like to experiment with the new Beyond Beef and the Impossible Burger. They're good. They're tasty and they serve a very serious purpose and if we can get rid of a lot of the factory farming that we're doing -- I haven't had a piece of chicken in a long time unless it's my own chicken," she added.
Stewart explained why she does not rely on factory farming.
"I do raise chickens and when they stop laying eggs they become the soup or they become the stock," Stewart said. "I don't mind that because I know what they've eaten and I know I'm not polluting the universe so it's important to think about it and I think the larger the population becomes in the world, the less we have to rely on factory farming."
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"We really better start paying attention. It's tragic what's going on. California is a total tragedy. Australia now is burning up. I was in Tasmania last Christmas. The day we left the fire started and they burned for almost a month burning so much of that beautiful territory so it's really important that we really start taking it seriously. I don't want to preach but I care about it a lot," she added.
“I think the larger the population becomes in the world, the less we have to rely on factory farming." ? What does that even mean?
But we’re sure that she won’t be flying to Costa Rica next week, just as she eschewed jet fuel to visit Tasmania, so perhaps she’s borrowing Little Greta’s carbon fibre sailboat to cruise the Caribbean? Whatever her means of transport, here’s hoping she stays there.
Related, and a foreshadowing of what they have planned for the rest of us: Vegan parents accused of starving their 18-month-old son to death on raw food diet
The mom told officers that the family was vegan and her four kids were on a raw food diet that consisted of mangoes, rambutans, bananas and avocados.
Rising to the occasion
Joanna swomley describes her org’s positions on a NorthWest firehouse, eastern civic center, and property taxes — “those aren’t our concerns”
Swomley was first elected to the RTM in 2017. She rejected any claim that Indivisible is meant to be a political party of any kind and instead said partisan problems were coming from groups like Fiscal Freedom.
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Swomley and Indivisible co-founder Nerlyn Pierson, who unsuccessfully ran for the RTM late in the election as a write-in candidate, rejected the idea that Indivisible Greenwich is “a left-wing anything.”
“Regrettably, just as with national politics, some in town scapegoat, fabricate and then perpetuate fringe conspiracy theories so they have a boogeyman to rally against rather than confront the real issues,” they said in a joint statement.
Here’s what their website says they are:
This time two years ago, we were lost, angry, and scared. Donald Trump was on the verge of taking power, and we all knew that no one in Washington was prepared to stand up to him. In that moment, we began the original Indivisible Guide with these lines:
Donald Trump is the biggest popular vote loser in history to ever call himself President-Elect. In spite of the fact that he has no mandate, he will attempt to use his congressional majority to reshape America in his own racist, authoritarian, and corrupt image. If progressives are going to stop this, we must stand indivisibly opposed to Trump and the Members of Congress who would do his bidding. Together, we have the power to resist - and we have the power to win.
Looking back, we think this holds up pretty well.
In 2017, we made Congress listen. Indivisibles went to town halls, die-ins, and district offices. We defeated TrumpCare, rallied for immigrants, and turned the Republican tax cut for the rich and corporations into an enormous political liability. We stiffened Democratic spines and weakened Republican resolve. We couldn’t stop everything — but we did stop a lot.
In 2018, we remade Congress. Indivisibles endorsed candidates, registered voters, phone-banked, and knocked doors. We dragged our friends, family, and strangers to the polls. Drop by drop, we built the blue wave. As a result, this Congress will feature a new generation of bold, diverse leaders, and dozens of Trump-supporting Republicans are out of a job. To be sure, the new political reality is complex, and we didn't get everything we fought for. But we know our next steps, and we're not giving up.
Keep ‘em down in Belle Haven.
Eco-Warrior Jane Fonda cheers from the balcony as her movie star friends are arrested
Fonda explained that she can’t afford to be arrested because it would interfere with the filming schedule for her TV show and besides, “there are cockroaches in the city jail”. She also claims to take trains instead of planes (bullshit) and would recycle, “if it weren’t so hard to do in Beverly Hills.
Look, as long as her intentions are pure and her 81-year-old heart’s in the right place, who can criticize?
To be fair, her antipathy towards US jets is longstanding
It’s not politics, it’s patriotism!
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