Heiser, RTC to seek Special Election
Board of Finance chair to run for Selectman

Seeking to challenge what he calls a callous disregard for the Ridgefield Republican Party by the Democratic Majority on the Board of Selectman, longtime Republican veteran Marty Heiser has announced he will run for a seat on the Board of Selectmen in [...]

Even though Nancy Pelosi promised to “Drain the Swamp” in the last election, it is clear that Congressman Jim Himes didn’t get her message.   Mr. Himes is currently a member of the powerful Banking Committee that has Congressional oversight with the Banking Industry, the Insurance Industry, Securities and Investments, Real Estate and Credit Companies to [...]

Written by Tom Foley

Connecticut is suffering from lost jobs and a weak economy. Our taxes on working families are far too high, and our state government has imposed too many mandates on our people, our businesses and our towns. Meanwhile, our legislature is not responding. I can fix [...]

As a native of Fairfield County, I remember our region as a place where the American dream was alive and well — where families built bright futures and the economy thrived. Today, all of that is at stake. Unemployment hovers at nearly 10%, valuable jobs are moving out of state at an unprecedented rate, and [...]

Our state’s Comptroller, the officer charged with keeping and reporting on Connecticut’s financial books, just issued her annual review of our state’s fiscal condition. Low and behold, Comptroller Nancy Wyman concluded that we closed out our ledgers on June 30 with a $449 million budget surplus.
Technically, Nancy Wyman is right; Connecticut has [...]

Soon it will be Labor Day, and millions of Americans will experience the Democrats’ stimulus program as they hit the highways plastered with stimulus signs reading — “Expect Delays.”  From California to the New York Island thousands of good Democrat supporting, union dues paying, Americans have found meaningful work digging holes and filling them back [...]

Our Probate Court, which is responsible for settling probate estates, conservatorships, guardianships and adoptions, is slated to merge with the courts in Redding, Bethel and Newtown.  On August 10, 2010, Ridgefield’s voters will have the important task of selecting the Probate Judge who will lead the Probate Court into the future.  Ridgefield’s Joe Egan is [...]

On August 10 Connecticut Republicans will once again have the opportunity to express their choices for state and federal elected office. It is not a coincidence that at a time when the stakes are so high with increasing public debt, out of control public spending and a dangerous international landscape, that we have such an [...]

By Peter Gomez (BOF Chair) and Jill Bornstein (BOF Vice Chair)
Recent headlines seemed to dismiss a 2% long range spending cap for town and school expenses as a potential myth, however, managing town budget increases to 2% or below remains a goal of many Board of Finance members given the local and regional fiscal landscape [...]

Nero had his fiddle and President Obama has his golf club and transformational social agenda. While real problems confront our country we have a President who has demonstrated an inability to adjust beyond his recreational time and policies that have proven to fail time and time again. At the center of these policies are the [...]