I'll be brief.

If you live in Danbury and support the blacklivesmatter movement, then NOW would be a good time to call for the eliminaiton of the name "Christopher Columbus Ave." and rename it after a city legend like Marian Anderson. It's time for Danbury to FINALLY give one of the city's most revered residents the respect and recognition she deserves...and remove the stain of Columbus' history from our city.

Maybe it's me but renaming a road in honor of a Danbury legend carries holds more weight than the attention being paid to remaining a sewer plant in honor of Mr. Dick Pants...

#HappyIndigenousPeoplesDay

Someone needs to explain to me how a person who posted patently offensive material and anti-mask diatribes on multiple social media platforms was employed as a phys. ed teacher at Danbury High School until a couple of weeks ago?

As someone who has been monitoring Joe Hanna's social media accounts since first becomming aware of his postings in July, I have a lot of questions for a numebr of school officials...as well as a number of questions for elected officials who were social media "friends" with his individual...and so far, few answers that I've received make any sense.

I'll have more to say later but for now, take a look at this small sample of postings a collected from Hanna's Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts before he privitaized his accounts from the public; this person would still be teaching at DHS right now if not for the courage of concerned residents who sounded the alarm and exposed Hanna to the public.

You can view a small sample of Joe Hanna's social media postings that I collected before news of his commentary made headlines in the Newstimes...click here. (WARNING: Exteremly offensive material).

...never ever forget.

Recently, I had an opportunity to interview my State Representative, David Arconti of the 109th district, and get his take on Eversource's response to the recent storm as well as the controversy surrounding the utility company's rate increase.

As co-chair of the Energy and Technology Committee, recently, Rep. Arconti called for a public hearing to address the mounting criticism towards Eversource's hanlding of the electricity outages as a result of the storm and backlash towards the company's sudden delivery rate increase, which took many residents by surprise.

Here's my full/un-edited Zoom interview with Rep. Arconti...if you have any questions for the State Rep., you can reach him at David.Arconti@cga.ct.gov.

Last night, Danbury Board of Education chairwoman Gladys Cooper responded to the racist remarks which was uttered during last month's virtual meeting.

BACKGROUND...

School board chair Gladys Cooper said after she asked members to say the Pledge of Allegiance, a voice came over the Zoom call and made a racist remark toward Black people. A pornographic video then came on the screen.

“It was a cowardly act,” said Cooper, the only Black board member.

The meeting was stopped and later resumed on a different stream, which was posted on YouTube on Thursday.

The superintendent and mayor are investigating, Cooper said.

In today's edition of CT GOP hypocrites, State Rep. John Frey takes deceitfulness to a new level.

State Rep. John Frey on Monday afternoon said the legislature should break up Eversource, contending that the state’s biggest utility has grown too big to effectively manage large scale response and restoration efforts.

“Here we are, seven days after the power went out, and thousands of residents in my town, Ridgefield, have yet to see their service restored,” said Frey, a Republican who serves the 111th District. “Thousands of others throughout Connecticut are in the same boat, and it seems the story from every community has been the same throughout this ordeal—Eversource has failed to communicate properly with local officials, keeping municipal public works crews sidelined too long while the company scrambled, and failed, to get inspection and restoration teams deployed in an orderly fashion.”

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"While this action could be viewed as retaliatory, it is not. Eversource has become a multi-state conglomerate. In addition to providing electric service to 149 Connecticut towns, it also owns the natural gas provider and recently acquired the Aquarian Water Utility. The focus appears to have shifted from the days of the former CT Light and Power. It’s proven that it’s gotten too big to deliver reliable service.”

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“There’s little doubt that the complexities of the energy industry combined with regulatory bureaucracy, and even the sheer footprint of the company’s Connecticut customer base, would pose challenges to breaking it up,” Frey said. “But it’s not impossible, and I think my colleagues and I need to have that conversation in Hartford because even the average guy who will be sitting at home in the dark tonight can see that Eversource is so big that its right hand has no idea what its left is doing.”

Tough talk from a guy who sided with the utility companies when the General Assembly tried to reign them in.

Substitute for Raised H.B. No. 5542

Session Year 2012

AN ACT CONCERNING CONSUMER PROTECTION FOR UTILITY CUSTOMERS.

To disclose the salaries of certain executives of public utility holding companies, to limit the ratepayer funds used to compensate such executives, to credit certain utility customers for food losses during prolonged service outages and to require certain utility companies to waive late fees and credit customers during prolonged service outages.

John Frey-Nay Vote

It's outlandish for John Frey to express outrage when he sided with the utility company AND AGAINST accountability when he had a change to make a difference on behalf of his constiuents.

Congrats State Rep Frey, you're my first choice for hypocrite of the day.

Last Saturday, I attended the the rally to demand education justice at the Danbury Green; the event was organized by proponents of the Danbury Prospect Charter School.

At the rally, Danbury Prospect Charter School spokesperson Pimentel Lucas responded to criticism and personal attacks he's received from Danbury Democrats who vehemently oppose the creation of the charter school in the city...here's a small portion of his remarks.

I will have a full write-up on the event posted later.