

The real story about grocery prices in Connecticut
How do you feel when you read this headline in our local paper: "Thanksgiving dinner costs in Connecticut keep customers on edge," You would expect sticker shock at the grocery store, wouldn't you? Further into the story, the reporter writes that overall grocery prices have increased by +31.9% during a period between Oct. 6 and Nov. 9. Does that make sense to you? Turns out, the reporter did not get the time frame exactly right. The period covered in the CT Insider Grocer
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Connecticut's housing crisis - a created problem that will likely solve itself
This excerpt from The Red Line , written by a smart Greenwich resident, Red Jahncke, contains data that demonstrates the housing crisis in Connecticut is self-imposed and it will not last long. He expects that the onerous housing bill that was rushed through the Connecticut legislature and is now on the Governor's desk, will prove unnecessary. The Red Line, November 24, 2025. The Democrats' recent one-day emergency session of the General Assembly suspended genuine democrat
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Armed robber of Greenwich bank finally arrested
It was January 25, 2017 around 4:30 pm. Jose Luis Martinez, age 28 at the time, from Iowa, robbed the Patriot National Bank at 100 Mason Street in Greenwich at gunpoint. Police tried to stop him, but he got away. He fled the scene in a stolen truck that he crashed and abandoned and then ran on foot into a residential area of Port Chester. He got away with an undisclosed amount of cash and no one was injured. Three weeks before the Greenwich bank robbery, on January 5, 201
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Making a splash: Greenwich's $60 million Olympic pool dream
Last week, the Greenwich school board heard a presentation about options to renovate or rebuild the GHS pool. The pool feasibility study was presented here. For $8 million you get a renovated pool and 1-2 year relocation during the process. For $60 million you get a brand new Olympic sized pool and eight new relocated tennis courts. The pool was constructed in 1968 and is significantly out of compliance with current codes. Compliance issues include diving height clearanc
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CT Senator Chris Murphy turns up the heat with F-bomb
It started with this video produced by six Democrat lawmakers encouraging the military to defy orders. The video provoked the President to call it "seditious behavior, punishable by death." Here is the transcript of the lawmakers' video: "We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community who take risks each day to keep Americans safe. We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now. Americans trust their military, but that t
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