Galye Slossberg sworn in to her 4th term as the Senator of the 14th State Senate District.

Kim Rose is sworn in as the new Representative of the 118th House District.

Last night Milford Republicans disgraced the City of Milford and proved derelict in their responsibilities to the people of Milford. Under direction of the Mayor and the office of the City Attorney, Republican members of the Planning and Zoning Board chose not to attend the schedule meeting of because the first item on the agenda was an election of officers Unfortunately, Republicans did not have their votes lined up. Rather than losing the election, they chose to shut down city business and not to attend, leaving many residents furious. Truly a low point for the city. This morning they claim that Chairman Shaw refused to allow for an election. Such a claim is intentionally dishonest. It was Chairman Shaw who put the election first on the agenda. We will be asking for an quick and independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding this issue and hope that Republicans will return to the business of our city soon.

Let them eat a little less cake.

61 percent say tax the rich to fix budget deficit

By Daniel Tencer, The Raw Story January 3, 2011

Americans of all income levels overwhelmingly favor raising taxes on the rich over any other method available to reduce the budget deficit, a new poll has found.

According to a survey conducted for Vanity Fair and CBS, 61 percent of Americans prefer increasing taxes on the wealthy as the first step to balancing the budget. By comparison, only 20 percent chose the second-most popular option -- cutting defense spending.

Cutting Medicare and Social Security -- the other two options -- got four percent and three percent support, respectively.

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December 25, 2010
Today is the day Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ - a child born in Bethlehem who went on to transform the world.

Every day, children are born into poverty, despair, and depravity.
Let us embrace the world's children as our own, for they will change the world - for better or worse.

After a long two years, the first chapter in the Obama Presidency has come to an end. A look back at all that the President, his administration and our party has accomplished in the 111th Congress:

Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, to make it easier for women to challenge unfair pay practices in the workplace.

SCHIP Reauthorization, continuing funding to state programs for families with children that over-qualify for Medicare.

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, that gave jobs and tax cuts to families and small businesses all across America, improved our nation's crumbling infrastructure and brought out economy back from the brink of collapse.

The savior of Sarajevo believed that American power should be used for good.

By FOUAD AJAMI Wall Street Journal

Richard Holbrooke, who died this week at age 69, loved epigraphs. They are strewn all over his writings—poems and passages from Euripides, W.H. Auden, Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot, the diplomatist and historian Harold Nicolson.

An epigraph from Herman Melville turns up early in Holbrooke's remarkable chronicle of his experience in the Balkans, "To End a War" (1998). "With other men, perhaps, such things would not have been inducements; but as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."

Holbrooke lived the life of his choice, driven by that itch. The Holbrooke story could have ended in the Mekong Delta, where as a young man he served as "pacification adviser." He could have perished, as three of his colleagues traveling with him did, in the summer of 1995, on the treacherous Mount Igman road to Sarajevo.

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I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

Lyndon B. Johnson