It’s Halloween, and we’re almost at the end of another one of New Fairfield’s two-year cycles for municipal elections. Halloween might be the most appropriate holiday to have just before an election. Democracy can be scary fun. I’ll be thankful when it’s over. Still, I wonder if we should consider moving our decision-making to another [...]
If in the past few months you’ve been to a Board of Finance meeting, or watched one on TV, then you are familiar with what BOF member Bob Burke calls Bad Behavior. There’s been a lot and most of it has to do with this being an election year.
Now that the Mets have blown what looked like a comfortable seven game lead by losing 12 out of their last 17 games, they’re out of the playoffs. It’s too painful for some fans to say yet, but we have no choice except to wait ‘til next year.
While some are calling it an historic collapse, [...]