Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
153 Lockwood Avenue, Riverside, $2.589 million, pending in 6 days.
34 Cedarwood Drive, $8.5 million, pending in 10 days. Purchased new in 2008 for $7.375, I’m a little surprised that its price hasn’t increased more than this.
Mark Madoff’s former house at 411 Stanwich Road, which he sold for $5.750 million back in 2001 as part of the divorce from his first wife, was further renovated and expanded by those buyers and put up for sale this past September for $13.750 million. Under contract by December, it sold yesterday for $11 million.
Buyers have a Palm Beach ZIP Code, but that’s no guarantee that they intend to make Greenwich their primary residence; in fact, given what’s being planned for Greenwich by the Hartford Democrats, they’d be fools to do do.
Mamdani rolls out $2.3M day care pilot for NYC workers with hefty $60K cost per kid
“On average, day care costs in the city for infants come in at $26,000 and $23,400 for toddlers, according to the city comptroller’s office.
City Hall didn’t respond to questions about the soaring cost to the city compared to private center-based programs.”
No matter how much billionaires’ wealth is confiscated, there will never be enough to pay for things like this.
John Stossel:
Child care got expensive — more than $13,000 per child, per year. [And far more than that in NYC — see above - ED]
So many people want government to pay for it.
My state just agreed. New York will fund free child care. Yay!
But wait … what government does isn’t free. Taxpayers pay.
And taxpayers pay more because “government rules have unintended consequences,” says Carrie Lukas of the Independent Women’s Forum.
Washington, DC, day-care teachers must have a degree in Early Childhood Education. That can take two years and cost $22,000.
“Of course you’re going to have to pay a lot more,” says Lukas, “when you’ve asked people to invest tens of thousands of dollars in degrees.”
Many government rules are just dumb.
Illinois says providers must offer coins for pay phones.
Providers must have “one crib with mattress, sheet, and blanket per infant” — but wait! Illinois also says, “Soft bedding . . . shall not be used.”
Which is it?!
Illinois bureaucrats told us their rules are “being updated.”
Red states have dumb rules, too.
Oklahoma’s regulations specify the exact number of items providers must have: two nesting, stacking and interlocking toys per one to two kids, two toddler pounding toys, two support pillows, three squeaky toys, two knobbed puzzles, three wrist or ankle bells . . .
Really. Oklahoma’s regulations go on for 180 pages!
“Policymakers talk about the lack of affordable care,” says Lukas, “yet here they are layering on regulations that make it impossible for people to come and fill that need. This pushes good people out of the industry.”
It also stops good people from providing in-home care.
“In-home day care is often what parents want most,” says Lucas. “Places that most replicate that comfortable, family-supportive environment.”
In-home care used to be the most common form of child care, but not anymore.
“Regulations make it really hard for someone who has their own kids, who’s already going to be staying at home, to invite other kids to that home,” says Lucas.
Michigan requires a license to take care of even one other child.
Getting that license can take six months and requires CPR training, infectious-disease training, child abuse training, a six-hour orientation, an environmental-health inspection . . .
“Those rules don’t help kids as much as raise costs,” says Lucas. “Fewer people enter the market, and parents are left with fewer options.”
Lukas is raising five kids, but she says the rules would discourage her from ever trying to offer home care.
“There are things that no family would ever comply with. I would have to go into my cabinets and find every cereal box and make sure it was in a sealed container . . . “
Delaware’s regulations say: “Food must be stored in closed or sealed containers . . . ”
Also, endless government rules don’t guarantee safety. Missouri’s Adventure Learning Center had a license. Teachers there were caught telling 3-year-olds to fight.
Real crooks ignore government rules altogether, as Minnesota’s day-care scandal showed. Incompetent government rarely checks.
“Here they were,” says Lukas, driving the law-abiding centers out of the day-care market, but in the meantime, “funneling millions of taxpayer dollars . . . letting money flow to those who weren’t providing any care at all.”
“There should be no regulations?” I ask.
“A background check for a day-care provider is a reasonable requirement, but other than that, I think we really should be trusting parents, not government, to make the decision on what makes sense for their child . . . . Parents, not government, care the most about kids.”
Activists and politicians always think more rules make things better.
More often than not, they make things worse.
Old Whine (r)
I read her 4-volume “Wonderland Quartet” back in 1975 in a BC English class; they were pretty good reads — the sort of stuff you’d expect to read in a college English class — but when I tried one of her later works a couple of years out of school and realized I was done with her.
Done, that is, until today, when I see that the 36-year-old author of Wonderland is now an addled 87-year-old whackjob.
Sad.
(to his credit, T***p has kept very quiet about the "assassination attempt" in Butler PA. likely, he is embarrassed about its staginess & doesn't want to draw any more attention to it. among numerous theories is the theory that it was "staged" but not rehearsed & much went… https://t.co/IKZGPJN2K5
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) April 18, 2026
"… wrong, not least that it looked so awkward, amateurish.)"
Oates make no mention of Corey Compertore (shot dead); David Dutch (damage to liver and broken ribs, numerous surgeries); and James Copenhaver, (wounded, unspecified injuries), as some of those “things that went wrong”, probably because (a) they were Trump supporters and (b) she’s embarrassed to — it completely undercuts her unhinged rant.
when women and small boys can’t be found, needs must
Via Remix News (emphasis added):
A 19-year-old Afghan national has been arrested and charged following a series of brutal sexual attacks on goats and sheep in Pennes-Mirabeau, a municipality in Bouches-du-Rhône, near Marseille.The suspect was taken into custody by the anti-crime brigade (BAC) on the night of April 9-10, 2026, after local sheep and goat owners alerted police. Since early 2026, several owners had discovered their animals injured, with incidents reported in both February and March. The animals had their legs tied and showed clear signs of rape, according to French newspaper La Provence.
After multiple similar episodes, the owners installed motion-sensor cameras on their properties in an attempt to identify the perpetrator. The footage revealed the silhouette of a young man visiting their livestock at night, and the images were handed over to police, who were eventually able to identify a matching suspect.
Related: Germany: Gang Rapes Hit Record High, Up to Half Committed by Migrants
It’s not just the sheep without a shepherd — literal or metaphorical — on duty to protect them.
The ponies also get it.
Last year in Germany, a shocking case has emerged from the beautiful town of Oberneufnach in Bavaria, which involved a 52-year-old Turkish asylum seeker allegedly breaking into a stable and sexually abusing ponies.
The man, who is from a refugee shelter in the nearby town of Anhofen, was arrested after he was caught on surveillance video.
The man broke into the horse farm at 6:45 p.m. while the family was having dinner. They heard the dog barking and then looked on surveillance monitors, where they saw the man in the stable with his pants down on top of one of the animals.
The boyfriend then ran to the stables to chase down the man, but he had already fled the scene. He continued his pursuit of the suspect though and eventually caught him. Police arrived and placed the man under arrest.
In 2023, a 27-year-old suspect was arrested after he was caught on a surveillance camera raping a pony at a stable south of Hamburg. The 18-year-old pony, which is named “Carrie,” was abused by the man at 1 a.m., with footage showing the man calmly walking onto the property and starting to attack the defenseless animal…
Even the petting zoo at the park has not been safe. In 2017, a Syrian migrant raped a pony there in front of children.
“My babysitter was out with our son in Görlitzer Park. They witnessed the man sexually assault the pony,” one woman told Berliner Morgenpost at the time. The babysitter took a photo of the man as he raped the pony and provided it to police. The migrant was banned from the petting zoo in response, but it is unclear if he was ever charged by police.
Benjamin Bartee:
Curiously enough, try as I might, I have not been able to find any denunciation of the migrant rape of farm animal phenomenon in Europe by PETA, the world’s preeminent animal rights organization.
Surely that oversight can’t have been a political calculation.
Th irony of Murphy sharing the stage with the samenclown who sat idly by while Somalians looted Minnesota is delicious
Total disgrace.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 18, 2026
Democrat Chris Murphy slanders President Trump and America overseas:
“Want to bring you greetings as well from a nation that is in crisis…this is the most significant threat to American democracy since the Civil War.” pic.twitter.com/qTfZl2YXaW
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) virtually addressed the attendees in pre-recorded videos.
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker has proposed a new $1-per-ride tax on Uber and Lyft, with the money marked to go toward the Philadelphia school district. Not surprisingly, the rideshare companies, as well as many residents, are against the tax. Parker held a press conference where she scolded Uber and Lyft for trying to tell her who to tax.
How dare the people who elected me and for whom I work criticize me! I’m the Philly mayor dammit and I’ll use the power of my office to take your money by taxing your Uber rides whenever I want!
— Phil Holloway ✈️ (@PhilHollowayEsq) April 18, 2026
Respect my authority! Or else! pic.twitter.com/bNfxQXsLEG
To be fair, the mayor is understandably concerned about the rampant illiteracy plaguing her city.
And maybe not so funny after all she is, after all, supposed to be running a city of 6,000,000 souls, including her fellow illiterates.
back to horse and bussy days
A lengthy article detailing the failure of electric school buses and then moving on to municipalities that bought their own; same story, writ large. This tiny excerpt pretty much sums up the situation:
Ninety-six million dollars’ worth of electric buses sit idle across South Florida, some parked in a landfill, others lined up at the Homestead Air Reserve Base.
...Across South Florida, dozens of electric buses purchased with tens of millions of taxpayer dollars remain parked and out of service, more than a year after they were pulled from the road.
Right now, no one knows exactly what comes next.
Ever Green:
Democrats have been hiding Kamala, but she just had a press conference and talked about yellow school buses and my goodness they really can’t let her talk in public about anything. pic.twitter.com/rbFKFJALyM
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) October 26, 2022
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