Not a Good Day for Paul Harvey

Broadcasting pioneer Paul Harvey dies at age of 90

From AP:
" ABC Radio Networks says broadcasting pioneer Paul Harvey has died at the age of 90.

Network spokesman Louis Adams says Harvey died Saturday at his winter home in Phoenix, surrounded by family. No cause of death was immediately available.

Harvey was a news commentator and talk-radio pioneer whose staccato style made him one of the nation's most familiar voices.

He was forced off the air in 2001 because a virus weakened a vocal cord. But he returned to work in Chicago and was still active as he passed his 90th birthday.

Known for his resonant voice and trademark delivery of "The Rest of the Story," Harvey had been heard nationally since 1951, when he began his "News and Comment" for ABC Radio Networks."

RIP - Rocky Mountain News

A perfectly respectable newspaper closes.







From AP: Rocky Mountain News Closes

DENVER – The Rocky Mountain News, Colorado's oldest newspaper and a Denver fixture since 1859, will publish its last edition Friday.

Owner E.W. Scripps Co. said Thursday the newspaper lost $16 million last year and the company was unable to find a buyer.

"Today the Rocky Mountain News, long the leading voice in Denver, becomes a victim of changing times in our industry and huge economic challenges," Scripps CEO Rich Boehne said.


This bothers me.
My first job was as Rocky Mountain News Carrier #1392
1964 - `65

How We Once Perceived Things

Once upon a time, in this case November 22, 1940......................



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I Need a Bailout!

Connecticut Band: Caribbean Beach Bums

Sox - Executed!

Sox shown here in happier times during White House briefing regarding various brands of catnip.

With full knowledge of the Clintons, Sox the cat was executed this week.

From AP
BALTIMORE – Socks, the White House cat during the Clinton administration who waged war on Buddy the pup, has died. He was around 18.

Socks had lived with Bill Clinton's secretary, Betty Currie, in Hollywood, Md., since the Clintons left the White House in early 2001.

Currie confirmed Socks' death Friday evening and said she was "heartbroken." She did not give details, referring calls to the Clinton Foundation office.

No funeral service information was available; the body was reportedly donated to a D.C. area Chinese take-out operation.

Stamford: Angry Mayor / Angry Chimp

Two angry Stamford Residents

Much like their now famous Chimp, Stamford's Mayor has anger management issues.


One would think someone running for Governor would have broad enough horizons to be at least vaguely familiar with the majority of morning show hosts.

Not Dan Malloy.

Poor Dan's been drinking the kool-aid and was rather obviously unfamiliar with the top rated cable morning show because it's on (gasp!) Fox.

Had Malloy (or anyone on his staff) done their homework he would have known that an interview with Steve Doocy is always a good thing.
Doocy's entire schtick is "Mr. Nice Guy"; if he's interviewing you, that's a big break as he isn't known for attack or gotcha interviews as it's simply not his style nor inclination.

After Fox & Friends host Doocy hands Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy a perfect straight-line, setting Malloy up so he could have looked pretty good;

.............well you'll have to see it yourself.





Malloy totally blows it and displays a pious self-righteous "I'm never wrong" persona making it clear why he won't (or doesn't dare) run for re-election, instead opting to set up his retirement account with the campaign funds he'll undoubtedly raise as a candidate for Governor.
(Think Democrats don't do that? Rosa DiLauro bought herself a couple of new cars with campaign funds, and heaven only knows what else.)

Thus the city mayor that always looks like a nice guy in still photos; and produces perfect 10 second sound bites with ease; becomes as friendly as his own city's famous Chimp when thrown a softball by smiling, Mr. Nice Guy himself, Steve Doocy.

A couple more performances like that and Jim Amann will sweep the Dems solely because he's NOT Dan Malloy.

If Malloy's handlers expect him to get anywhere, they, like the same city's Chimp owners, need to put a stronger leash on him.

Let's Tax Someone Else!

High Speed Electronic Tolls

Roughly 30% of Connecticut traffic on both I-84 and I-95 is from out of state.
Many of those vehicles don't stop anywhere in Connecticut and thus don't spend one thin dime here.

Issuing an annual Connecticut EZ-Pass for let's say $100 would protect our citizens from paying too much, and we could even give a 110% credit for that purchase on our Connecticut Income Tax.

The out of state revenue at $10 per-vehicle (border to border) would generate in excess of $500 Million a year; and that's without figuring in what we could generate on the Merritt/Wilbur Cross Parkway.






Early toll booths are a thing of the past.



This must have created terrible traffic back-ups.

The early EZ-Pass toll booth is now stale.











Believe it or not, this is a toll booth!

Change is Good!

When does the change start?
Let me know, I wouldn't want to miss it!

Waterbury-To-Hartford Rail

Utopia!



From the Courant:

"Several prominent legislators are looking into whether the state could use federal stimulus aid to establish passenger train service from Waterbury to Hartford.

Officials with Pan Am Railways told lawmakers that for $52 million, their company could bring the tracks on the Waterbury-to-Berlin stretch up to federal standards for passenger service and also build small stations in Bristol, Plainville and New Britain.

"We could get this [rail line] ready in 18 months, and we could do it for $50 million. I think that's less than the cost overruns for the New Britain busway will be," state Rep. David McCluskey, D- West Hartford, said Wednesday.

It's gonna be really swell!





Boarding new commuter service.











Comfortable ride to work.









Ride to work in a wonderful
smoke-free environment!



Convenient and inexpensive ground transportation will await you upon your arrival in Hartford!


Remember! Smoking regulations will be strictly enforced!