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LWV of Greenwich program -
YouTubed: http://www.lwvg.org/
Weston LWV looking into significance for Weston of Indian Point
repermitting.
Read here a report
from reliable group, 2011, received from LWV of Greenwich.
26th
Senate District - Reapportionment
- 2012 over, here.
2012 Weston streets by name and
district plus map.
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FALL
CONFERENCE 2011 picture story...
CABLEVISION
supported this event, came with reporter.
Quick link
to complete video.
Keynote speaker
CT
Commissioner of Economic and Community Development Catherine Smith with
new slides and a
spectacular and inspiring presentation of where Connecticut is and
where we have to go - and how!
Panel
Christopher Bruhl, President, Business Council of Fairfield County
Joseph Carbone, President and CEO of The WorkPlace
Hon. Martin Looney, CT State Senator, Majority Leader and Co-Chair of
Jobs Growth Roundtable
Michael Meotti, Executive VP for the Board of Regents for Higher
Education
Moderator
Kay Maxwell, former President, LWVUS
Co-Sponsored by the UCONN West Hartford campus School of Social Work
This is not the first Fall Conference on a related subject - link here to Fairfield
League's report from 1999
LWV of Weston videotaped this event.
Copies available soon;
online version link below..
2 hours 32 minutes
Best viewed with
Internet Explorer, which will automatically open Windows Media Player
and
begin playback without waiting for the large download to
complete.
For Cable and DSL users:
http://www.lwvweston.org/LWVCT12-3-11CableVersion.wmv
(381 Megabytes)
For Dial-up Modem users: http://www.lwvweston.org/LWVCT12-3-11ModemVersion.wmv
(58 Megabytes)
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2011 VOTER SERVICE
- LOCAL ELECTION REPORTS
LINK TO LWV OF WESTON 2011 VOTERS GUIDE AS
PUBLISHED IN THE FORUM
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IN HARTFORD...
LEGISLATURE ACTS ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE!!!
Background:
WITT
link; Weston LWV "Forum on Demand" story
here.
ONLINE
SPECIAL EVENT STILL PHOTOS AND STORY
Before
the voting by unions
(rejecting give-back deal), but after Long Session ended, the LWV of
Weston
held its VIDEOTAPED Legislative
Wrap Up 2011;
AT
LEFT...SPECIAL
SESSION OVER NOW: "What happened?" League asks legislators
Cities
and towns winners, unions losers; Senate votes to curtail
benefits in future; but wait...
SEBAC (unions) changes rules for a
re-vote - simple majority only now required.
HOUSE BILL PASSES IN BOTH CHAMBERS:
AN ACT CONCERNING THE BUDGET FOR THE
BIENNIUM ENDING JUNE 30, 2013.
http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=6701&which_year=2011
SENATE
BILL ON CURTAILING BENEFITS PASSES, NOT TAKEN UP BY THE HOUSE
http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=1301&which_year=2011
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Friday May 6 - LWV
of Weston Annual Meeting at Red Barn; Betty Hill International
Forum 2011 REPORT
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REFERENDUM STORY HERE (Budgets, YES, YES; NO
on Cemetery)
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SPEAK
UP 2012 VIDEO
LINKS:
1 hour 44
minutes 25 seconds
THREE STORIES INSPIRED BY SPEAK UP IN
THE FORUM
SPEAK UP
2012 photo essay
Thoughtfull questioning on Legislative
Session (l) and FORUM-anointed hottest subject, Humvees (r)
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LWV
of Weston "SPEAK UP 2011" snow date had standing room only crowd!
Bravo
LWVCT - it was a was a great event!!!
Click here for more.
THE BIG FINALE! VIDEO
ONLINE
HERE
A rousing performance and sing along
to "Pride and the Passion" in honor of the League of Women Voters
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LWVCT CONVENTION 2011 REPORT
HERE
Saturday May 21, 2011
LWVCT Convention
At the Graduate Club, in New
Haven
LWVCT CONVENTION: Luncheon at
left; afternoon Plenary Session at right
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Video
now online here
FALL CONFERENCE 2010 LOCATION
South Congregational Church not a sponsor.
LWVCT
FALL
CONFERENCE 2010
One
Year Later: Health
Care in Our Country and Our
State
Interesting
sidelight:
health care issue in today's news: http://www.ctmirror.org/print/14673
A SUMMARY OF THE FALL CONFERENCE
2010:
The presenters were Jacob S. Hacker, the Stanley B. Resor
Professor of Political Science at Yale University and
Kevin Lembo, Comptroller-Elect, who had held the position of state
Health Care Advocate and was co-chair of
the SustiNet Health Partnership Board of Directors. Kay Maxwell, Former LWVUS president,
moderated.
Professor
Hacker discussed the future of health care reform on the federal
level and what that would mean for
Connecticut. He has written an excellent book about all of this,
which was available.
Mr.
Lembo, Comptroller-elect, described SustiNet and informed the audience
about the
specifics of the SustiNet
Board’s upcoming recommendations to the General Assembly for
implementation.
The
responders were Stephen Glick of the Chamber Insurance Trust and
Frances Padilla, the VP Program, Policy
and Administration for the Universal Health Care Foundation of CT
(the organization that helped design SustiNet).
Written questions were collected from the audience during the
presentations and submitted to Kay Maxwell. The
entire conference was video recorded; DVDs will be distributed to
local leagues.
Link
here to
more background info and a video of the event
Want a DVD?
Click
here for
news of how to obtain one!!!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS
- full story
here.
“The league has fought for 90 years to improve our system of
representative government and impact public policies
through citizen
education and advocacy,” said Helen Z. Pearl, president of the New
Britain area League of Women
Voters and a founding commissioner of the
PCSW.
NEW
TOWN PLAN NEWS HERE
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LWV
OF WESTON, CONNECTICUT -
PUBLICATIONS:
NEW CHARTER
DOCUMENT SOON?
NEW for 2012 is Know Your Town Directory,
available at online here or on
the Town of Weston Website...
WESTON
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Numbered prints by Mary O'Reilly Sowinski for
sale
(some
still left!) depict Weston in 1979!
Notecards
commissioned by LWV of Weston available from the League;
- Test your knowledge of Weston...what is depicted in
the print above?
- Is this scene still there?
- Why is this view of particular importance for
Westonites?
With
the
economy turnng down, this was a very important forum:
"MUNICIPAL SHARED SERVICE: THE
ROAD AHEAD"
A
Symposium Presented by:
- The Connecticut
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
- The Connecticut
Office of Policy and Management
- The League of
Women Voters of Connecticut
October
30, 2007, 7:45am-12:30pm
Central
Connecticut State
University, Student Center, Alumni Complex
Watch the
condensed version here:
Take a tour of the
Capitol with
official
League Guides--"Capitol
and Information Tours" (C.I.T.)
