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What Connecticut’s Nitrogen Credit Exchange Costs Us

May 5, 2010

The State of Connecticut is playing at being a sort of “reverse Robin Hood” by taking money from cities that cannot afford to upgrade their wastewater treatment plants and giving it to the municipalities that have been able to afford the upgrade. What’s worse is that while I’m sure that this exchange was conceived with the best of intentions, it has become just another tax; a tax that cost the users of the Danbury wastewater treatment plant $1,108,335 in 2009, and gave Stamford $961,118.

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Foreclosure: Day of Reckoning

March 22, 2010

Congress and Connecticut state law makers have conveniently pushed off their “day of reckoning” by making a foreclosure action take longer. This hurts us all because the foreclosures have not been halted, they will still occur…and a balloon of bad debt is growing above our heads that will burst soon.

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