Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
63 Rockwood Lane, $4.495 million. It looks attractive to me, but it sold for essentially the same price — $4.4 million — in 20908, which makes me suspect that its age (it was built in 1941) may have caught up with it. Most house have appreciated over the past 16 years, even if only in inflated dollars.
vermont deserves him, but what did the rest of us do wrong?
Sanders, who will turn 83 before the November election, would be 89 by the end of his fourth term in January 2031, should he win reelection.
In his announcement video, Sanders argued for codifying “Roe v. Wade into national law,” “making sure all public colleges and universities are tuition-free,” and against funding for Israel in its war with Hamas.
Sanders easily won the Democratic nomination in 2018 with 94 percent of the vote and went on to win the general election handily against that year’s Republican nominee, Lawrence Zupan, and a number of third-party candidates.
106 Lockwood Road, $4.695 million. It will never win any architectural awards but that hasn’t stopped it from selling at ever-higher prices since it was built: $3,762,500 in 2021, and $3 million in 2019.
aiken road
39 Aiken Road, $6.495 million, 10 days.
616 Indian Field Road
616 Indian Field Road, Mead Point, $15.495 million, 10 days. The listing agent has declined, undoubtedly at her customer’s request, to provide any pictures of the house, so I’ve supplied one that gives its approximate flavor — maybe.
we all want and need 8 bedrooms, but 11 baths? asking for a friend.
Also in Mead Point, and after 712 days, 16 Windrose Way has a contract. Its current asking price is $13.750 million, a shade lower than the $21.5 it was hoping for so long ago, but there it is.
58 Close Road has taken its third price cut, and as of today you can snap it up for just $5.995 million instead of the $6.749 it would have cost you in February. The owners paid $6.250 million in 2007, if you’re counting.
don’t like the brick look? photoshop is your friend
i can’t help but wonder whether the zebra, rather than an abattoir castoff wouldn’t be more effective here — the zebra has a solid track record in successful staging, while the dead cow look is still on its initial test run
your president here
Bob Hogem, Red State:
Trump continues to take to the airwaves and to Truth Social to lambaste the judge, the jury, and the entire process. Merchan keeps fining him, but he doesn’t seem to care. It was almost comical to hear the judge on Monday virtually begging Trump to stop talking because he really really doesn’t want to throw him in jail. He knows how it will look.
At this point, you can’t help but wonder if the presumptive GOP presidential nominee is playing high-stakes poker. He almost seems to be saying, “Jail me, Juan—see how that plays.” Polls have consistently shown that Trump’s approval ratings have shot up since all the lawfare against him started ramping up. MSNBC nitwits and their ilk breathlessly prayed for a mugshot of the former president, but when it came, it didn’t do what they thought it would. It only made Trump more popular as Americans realized that corrupt processes were at work.
But what would happen if Biden’s chief political opponent was arrested and tossed in the slammer? How would the electorate react to that? One can’t help but wonder if Trump wouldn’t mind that outcome, seeing as he keeps talking despite Merchan’s order to stop. My guess is the American people, or most of them anyway, would be disgusted, and Trump’s popularity would only continue to grow as Biden flounders on the national and international stage. We would see even more how depraved the anti-Trumpers have become, how they’ll do almost anything to bring him down. He’s running for the most important job in the world—the presidency of the United States—yet he’s not allowed to comment on the folks trying to silence him or the corrupt system that is being used to try to destroy him? It doesn’t seem like America, and We the People feel it.
Will he come out Tuesday and continue to flout the gag order, virtually baiting the judge into more penalties—possibly including jail time? My guess is yes. I can’t claim to know his motivations, but it’s entirely possible that jail time is exactly what he wants.
Granted, a huge slice of the voting public would cheer his jailing, just as it did his indictments, and corporate media would celebrate, but the picture of the former and possibly-future president rotting in a Rikers Island jail cell would create an indelible image, viewed around the world and across our nation, and confirming our transformation into a banana republic; I don’t think the majority of voters will stand for that. We find out today.
Reminder: the biden administration kept public schools closed for 18 months in compliance with the NEA’s demand
Alright, I made up that last item, I think, but their demands are impressive nonetheless.
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is negotiating a new contract with the public schools system and is understood to be calling for an extra $50 billion to pay for wage hikes as well as other demands such as fully paid abortions for its members, new migrant services and facilities and a host of LGBT-related requirements and training in schools.
To put the figure into context, the total base tax receipts for the state of Illinois last year were $50.7 billion.
The … demands are being made despite its members delivering underwhelming results for its students, with only 21 percent of the city’s eighth graders being proficient readers, according to the last Nation’s Report Card, which provides national results about students' performance.
Union President Stacy Davis Gates’ …. plan calls for members to bank at least 9% wage increases each year through fiscal year 2028.
The average salary of a teacher in Chicago Public Schools is $93,182, according to research by the Illinois Policy Institute, a conservative nonprofit think tank. Therefore, the average teacher’s pay will increase by half to $144,620 in the 2027-2028 school year, it says.
That figure would equate to more than double the median household income in Chicago, according to Census Bureau statistics.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the CPS budget will exceed $9 billion this year, up nearly 30% from $7.4 billion just five years ago. Much of that increase is reflected in teacher salaries, which are among the highest of any big-city teachers in the country.
Last school year, the district spent more than $21,000 per student, far above the national average of $14,347, according to census data.
While the figure might seem far-fetched, the union holds tremendous sway in city politics with deep ties to Mayor Brandon Johnson.
Johnson is a former CTU legislative coordinator who was put forward by the union to run for mayor. As of June 30, 2023, CTU had funneled more than $2.6 million into Johnson’s campaign while he received more than $6 million from teachers unions altogether, according to the Illinois Policy Institute.
The leaked demands also address "disparities" in health care with a call for 100% coverage benefits for abortion care, 100% coverage benefits for fertility including full coverage for storage of embryos and any other frozen storage needs.
But the union also wants more taxpayers' funds to go to migrants in its far-reaching plan – earmarking $2,000 to be given to each migrant to help with academics, transportation and mental health counseling.
The union also wants each of the 646 public schools to have a "newcomer liaison" for new students as well as migrant students and unused school facilities to be converted into housing accommodation for migrants.
There is also a whole host of other social justice provisions the union wants, including making sure workers and educators are trained annually on LGBTQ+ issues as a qualification in their job description.
The union also wants to mandate that every school in the district has at least one gender-neutral bathroom.
Additionally, it wants the board to adopt policies that would prohibit any member from being compelled to tell parents when a student rejects his or her sex, according to the documents.
What’s the solution here? Well CBS has made an astonishing discovery:
For 17 years, St. Mary’s has had a 100% graduation rate and a 100% college acceptance rate. The all-girls private school has no entry tests, just high expectations and strict rules. https://t.co/fpMtGwntYn pic.twitter.com/pLGTPAQLGw
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 5, 2024
It’s no wonder the teachers unions and their wholly-owned subsidiary, the Democrat Party fight so hard against non-union schools in the inner cities.
The porn attack is against Disqus, not this site — users all across the net are yelling about it. My webmaster guru has turned off the ad feature on FWIW (the only “ads” were the porn pop-ups, and they weren’t paying anything anyway), and that should cure it, but he warns “it might take some time to propagate into their (Disqus’s) system”, So you fans of the ads, enjoy them while you can, and for those readers who don’t, if there are any, relief is on the way. We hope.
Governor Kristi Noem to ‘adjust’ memoir to remove description of supposed encounter with North Korean dictator
Ms Noem wrote of her apparent encounter with the authoritarian leader during a passage in which she described travelling to “many countries to meet with world leaders”, according to a review in The New York Times.
“I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. I’m sure he underestimated me, having no clue about my experience staring down little tyrants (I’d been a children’s pastor, after all),” she wrote.
After a wave of public scepticism over the claim, Ian Fury, Ms Noem’s spokesman, clarified it was one of two “small errors” that would be changed.
Pro tip: you should have lied about the first one, Kristi, and told the truth about the second.
GOLD BAR BOB IS BEING REASSIGNED
Afghanistan's top diplomat in India, Zakia Wardak, has resigned her post after she was caught by airport authorities smuggling nearly $2 million worth of gold into the country. The White House will appoint her junior senator for New Jersey, while simultaneously appointing Senator Bob Menendez to Wardak’s position as Afghan Consul-General to India. “There will be no noticeable difference in Washington or the Garden State,” Biden spokesman John Kirby assured reporters during a press conference today announcing the move, “and because India is closer to Egypt than Trenton is, Bob will be better able to serve his own constituents.”
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