Levers and Pulleys

Note: This is cross-posted over at the Cheshire Town Post.
On July 19th it was demonstrated that the Cheshire Herald web poll allows participants to vote repeatedly without detection. Two days later a staff member acknowledged the problem.
Unfortunately, The broken poll continues to run without modification, and the disclaimer printed in the recent issue remains […]

Note: This is cross-posted over at the Cheshire Town Post.

Cartoon by Craig Houghton
And, in case you haven’t heard about the (surprise!) hotel, here’s a front-page Record Journal article on the subject.
Many thanks to Al Sanders for sending along the article and asking this question:

Many of the people that wanted the I/C zone to remain unchanged […]

Note: This is cross-posted over at the Cheshire Town Post. I’ll often be doing that. This is still my primary blog for local or political issues. The CTP is an open forum for everyone, and over there I’m just another poster (or, I will be once people get used to writing their own posts).
Two days […]

Earlier this month, Chris Murphy stood by the entrance doors of the Cheshire Stop & Shop. He shook hands, answered questions, and lent an ear as part of his “Congress on Your Corner” campaign.
from his initial “Congress on Your Corner” mailing:
Over the next two years, working together, we can reinvent how government works. […]

Please drop by to visit, and register for, The Cheshire Town Post . It’s an open forum where residents provide all the content. Councilman Tim White’s blog, Tim White Listens, has done a great job of bringing Cheshire together for discussion. In that tradition, I am hosting the Cheshire Town Post in order to provide […]

Some of you may have seen this house. Follow the example!

A poster on your property is a starting point — people will see it and they’ll want to know more. Be sure to only post these on your own property. My thanks go to Al Sanders for providing the signs, the pictures in this post, […]

At the risk of sounding a bit bitter, I have no idea how the same webmaster that only links to the very last set of Planning and Zoning minutes managed to add a brand new hyperlink to the side bar. It’s for the Proposed Revisions to Cheshires Plan of Conservation and Development and Zoning Regulations. […]

Freedom River (1971) is narrated by Orsen Welles and written by Joseph Cavella (screenplay) and Warren H. Schmidt (parable). I’d bother convincing you how timeless and relevant this short film is, but Schmidt drives home the point well enough on his own. Let’s not throw it away — democratic freedoms cannot last when they are […]