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101 Articles match "2009","Connecticut"
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Saturday, March 6, 2010
That's what I said to my tax-preparer for 30 years when he told me that he was retiring before the 2009 tax year. 0160; On the long line in Bank of America here in New Haven, Connecticut, I began "interviewing" the tall man in front of me. 0160; Now he was managing a branch of H&R Block in East Haven, Connecticut. "Are you sure?" quot;
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Monday, December 28, 2009
The joke is still Greenwich, Connecticut. 0160; And THE NEW YORK TIMES, like most of the elite institutions, has missed it. 0160; In the "Real Estate" section, the NYT has a two-page article on the great bargains to be had now in that tony town. 0160; Property can be purchased for - what a steal - $645,000.
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Monday, December 28, 2009
0160; My most happy time was when I was doing a survival job in loss prevention at inner-city Bridgeport, Connecticut Home Dept. When Dominick Dunne was renting a tiny room in the YMCA and writing a book that would be his comeback, he was happy. 0160; Probably the happiest in his life of the typical walking wounded.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
he would board MetroNorth in the Greenwich, Connecticut railroad station and return to that same station about 8:15 P.M., 0160; After all, commuting from the Gold Coast of Connecticut into the Big Apple isn't cheap. Layoffs continue, new good jobs tough to land - and keep. 0160; And, as Gawker's Hamilton Nolan observes , American husbands haven't been telling their wives that they're jobless.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
0160; Here in Connecticut, that blew into a 1000 pieces as GOP got nailed for setting up 33 Twitter accounts impersonating Democrats. Chuck DeVore's position on the issues: Those you can get from his news-sites , YouTubes and the exploding media coverage of his "common-sense conservatism." quot;
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
0160; We will be leaving behind our dysfunctional office families to try to survive the real thing in the suburbs of Greenwich, Connecticut, Tarrytown, New York, and Edison, New Jersey. There is sadness when we board Metro North commuter train out of Manhattan this Thursday. 0160; Believe me, most of us will be longing for January 4th and being back with the usual assortment of tormenters, whiners, overreachers, Larry Summers types, and compulsive sharers in the workplace.
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
I am asking Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd and Discover Card Vice President of Customer Service Clint Morley to investigate this one. 0160; I want to find out if I were a victim of a bait and switch. 0160; Here is my side of the story Download Discovercard .
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
0160; She was 72 and residing here in Connecticut.
...Tags: That's what aging is about: Losing people. 0160; Today we Baby Boomers lost Mary Travers. 0160; She was part of the musical group Peter, Paul & Mary, as in "Blowin' in the Wind."
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
0160; This is a tragedy at Yale, here in New Haven, Connecticu The police have not officially associated the bloody clothes and body they found with missing graduate student Annie Le. 0160; But the authorities have now classified the case as a homicide. 0160;
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Sunday, September 6, 2009
In Greenwich, Connecticut, reports the AP, car theft is up - 36 so far this year versus 20 for all of 2008. 0160; The targets are the BMW and the Mercedes. 0160; Here in New Haven, CT, thieves seem just as busy but less selective. 0160; In late June they bothered to break into and steal my Ford Escort, with 83,000 mile
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Louis Archdiocese spent $843,000 in fiscal 2009 in legal fees. In 2001, the Connecticut Diocese of Bridgeport has been fighting in court, including three motions to the U.S. 0160; Last week it lost its last appeal in the Connecticut Superior Court. 0160; The documents will become accessible to Like many industries, law has had a bad year. 0160; Those BigFoot white shoe law firms are laying off associates, deferring the start date of those promised jobs, cutting salaries, and making partners kick in up to 15% of their pay.
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
0160; Today I was in North Haven, Connecticut. 0160; In Madison, Connecticut, Julia's is trying to hang on that way. Even before Amazon.com's Kindle model killed the bookstores - indie and corporate - the price war is burying them alive. 0160; I could have wandered into Barnes & Nobel, just as I had been doing that for years.
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Monday, October 5, 2009
This could be the tipping point for both the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport in Connecticut as well as the entire institution of Roman Catholicism in America and around the world. 0160; The Diocese attempted to stop that through filing an appeal with the Connecticut Supreme Court, which it lost. 0160; This ruling from the US SC, reports Dave Altimari in THE 0160; The United States Supreme Court denied the request of the Diocese of Bridgeport, filed on a paid-fee basis by its law firm Mayer Brown, to keep the discovery documents from the settlement of clergy sex abuse cases sealed.
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