Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
In the past, we’ve seen the “Spring Market” kick off after MLK Day, and that may happen next week; we’ll see. In the meantime, the market is dormant. During the past week, there have been:
7 New listings reported
1 Contract
4 Pending; and
1 Sale
Single family homes, that is; rentals and condos and out of town properties are not included
In mere days, President Trump has shown that his no-nonsense approach to immigration works. The numbers don’t lie. All the White House needs to do is enforce immigration laws, and the Biden-Harris administration simply did not.
Americans suffered for years because of skyrocketing illegal immigration, and there should be no doubt anymore that the Biden-Harris administration’s policies exacerbated the crisis by design.
…The reality is clear: Biden always had the power to safeguard American citizens but chose not to, with Democrats in Congress standing by his harmful leadership. ….
All this was obvious from the start of Biden’s reign. Here’s an article dated February 2, 2021:
U.S. President Joe Biden signed executive orders Tuesday to start to dismantle former President Donald Trump’s restrictive immigration policies, including an attempt to reunite families that had been separated at the U.S.-Mexican border.
“I’m not making new law. I’m eliminating bad policy,” Biden said while signing the orders.
In the first hours of his presidency two weeks ago, Biden acted to halt construction of Trump’s $16 billion wall along the border and sent a far-reaching immigration bill to Congress, where lawmakers have long been stalemated between liberals looking to ease the path to U.S. citizenship and conservatives seeking to stem unauthorized immigration.
Biden’s immediate focus is on the 3,100-kilometer southern border with Mexico, where Trump tried to keep thousands of migrants from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala from entering the U.S.
Trump led repair and expansion of a border wall and imposed tough detention and deportation policies for those who made it across the desolate border terrain and into the United States.
….
“President Biden’s strategy is centered on the basic premise that our country is safe and stronger and more prosperous with a safe, orderly and humane immigration system that welcomes immigrants, keeps families together and allows people — both newly arrived immigrants and people who have lived here for generations — to more fully contribute to our country,” the senior official told reporters.
The official said that Trump “was so focused on the wall that he did nothing to address the root cause of why people are coming to our southern border. It was a limited, wasteful and naive strategy, and it failed.”
By contrast, backers of the previous administration’s border initiatives said Biden’s orders will lead to chaos and lawlessness.
The president also is directing the U.S. Homeland Security agency to review a Trump policy that requires non-Mexican migrants to stay in Mexico until their immigration court date in the U.S. but not immediately dismantle the program.
The policy has left 60,000 asylum seekers waiting in dangerous border towns. Biden has already stopped new enrollments in the program but not disclosed how he intends to deal with those still waiting in Mexico.
The president also plans to restore a program from the last Democratic administration under President Barack Obama allowing children under the age of 18 to apply to legally reunite with their parents already living in the United States.
“The situation at the border will not transform overnight," the senior Biden official said. "This is in large part due to the damage done over the last four years, but we are committed to addressing it in full."
More than 70,000 migrants have been detained or arrested at the border in each of the past four months, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.
Biden’s directives will also call for restoring the U.S. asylum system, which Trump had overhauled, making it exceedingly difficult for migrants to be granted asylum in the U.S.
(The listing, that is; the house itself was built in 1976. ) 17 W End Avenue, Old Greenwich, $1.395 million. Small, but so is the price, and it’s set back from the street, minimizing noise. Can’t be much more than 100 yards from the Village itself, so shopping, restaurants, train and school are all easily accessible. Not bad; perhaps a good landing spot for a divorcing parent who wishes to stay close to his children? It’s more convenient and less expensive than Stamford’s Dolphin Cove, which has traditionally served that purpose.
I haven’t read the article itself — I do have a life – but on its face, why not?
Buy now, before oceanfront pricing drives it out of reach
Scientists have warned that Africa is breaking apart faster than previously thought.
A 35-mile-long fissure in Ethiopia’s desert emerged in 2005 but has since been widening at a rate of half an inch per year.
Researchers previously believed the split would take tens of millions of years, but Ken Macdonald, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara,told DailyMail.com that it would likely happen within one to five million years.
The separation would also create a new ocean and continent on Earth.
'What might happen is that the waters of the Indian Ocean would come in and flood what is now the East African Rift Valley,' Macdonald said.
Macdonald added that the new ocean could become as deep as the Atlantic if waters continue to flow into the area.
The crack stretches through Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and half of Ethiopia, which the professor said would become a new continent called the 'Nubian continent.'
While the two parts are drifting at an extremely slow pace, Macdonald said that it is impressive given the massive size of Africa.
6 Hendrie Avenue, Riverside, was listed October 18th at $2.550 million and went immediately to best-bid. Tat bid was reported today to have been $2.710 million.
A male athlete is making headlines for the second straight January after breaking more women's college track records.
Camden Schreiner, who goes by "Sadie," set facility records at Brockport’s Rust Buster, a track and field event in New York where multiple universities compete, such as Roberts Wesleyan University and Schreiner's Rochester Institute of Technology.
The junior sprinter set records by winning the women's 200-meter dash in 24.50 seconds and the women's 400-meter dash in 55.91 seconds. The times were also program records, according to RIT.
"He is currently ranked #1 in DIII women’s 200 & 400 meter dashes," said Ashley Keleher, former track star at Colby-Sawyer College.
The Division III times were also announced by RIT, which later named Schreiner female athlete of the week while boasting the achievements.
"Please stop this nonsense," Keleher added.
Keleher, a woman who broke at least four track records herself in 2021-2022, later posted video of Schreiner's performance and said she "can’t wait" for stories like this to stop.
On Schreiner's social media page, he wrote, "starting the season off right where I left off," followed by hearts and a transgender flag.
"The times will only get faster from here," he added.
Schreiner also made headlines in January 2024 after breaking school records for the women's 200-meter and 300-meter sprints.
At the same meet, Schreiner also placed first in the 4x400-meter relay and earned a Liberty League Women's Track & Field Performer of the Week award, according to KATV.
… Schreiner has been celebrated for crushing female athletes and was rewarded with professional photo shoots by the Washington Post and full support from RIT and its head track coach, David Warth.
(There’s no point to this posting, except that it amuses me to do so)
HARTFORD — A Hartford man who officials say showed off a loaded pistol magazine while streaming on Facebook Live pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon Tuesday.
Jason Barber, 40, could face up to 15 years in prison in the case, acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut Marc Silverman said in a news release Wednesday.
Silverman said law enforcement received information on March 2, 2022 that Barber was seated in a car and streaming, showing off a loaded pistol magazine.
Police located the vehicle parked on Barbour Street and followed Barber into a package store, Silverman said. Police approached him and found he had a Kahr Arms P45 handgun containing a magazine with five rounds of .45 caliber ammunition in his coat pocket, Silverman said.
Silverman said Barber's criminal history includes state felony convictions for firearm, robbery, drug and escape offenses, and it is a violation of federal law for a person who has been convicted of a felony offense to possess a firearm.
Once, leaving the court house after arraignment calendar, I complained to a colleague, “our clients are so f***ing dumb!”. “If they weren’t”, he pointed out, “we’d be out of business”.
Spot-on.
and she’s not a fat pig, or a sugar junkie, or a twinkie twitcher, she’s a person with CCD: calorie counting disorder
The non-transgender — at least I think so — governor of New York has solved her state’s drug problem, eliminating every single drug addict with just a stroke of her pen; genius!
No more addicts, no more “habitual drug users” (so last year), they’ve been replaced with new, improved versions, “persons with a substance abuse disorder”. They’ll still be useless thieves sucking on the public teat, but in the world of the left, if something sounds nicer, it is nicer, no?
UPDATE: The flip side
BREAKING: New Trump directive bans use of term "migrants", mandates use of term "illegal aliens"
— Douglass Mackey (@DougMackeyCase) January 22, 2025
*We will no longer refer to aliens as migrants, noncitizens, etc. The legal term is alien and as law enforcement we will use the legal term."
What’s in a word? Plenty, in this case. “Illegal” reminds readers that these people are breaking the law, and that’s why all responsible leftist media outlets stopped using it. And “alien” — the term used in our immigration statutes — is a person who is not a naturalized citizen of the country where they are living, so it’s perfectly accurate to use the word when discussing our new friends from south of the border. Accurate, and there’s the rub: in the new world order there will be no borders, no countries, so there can be no aliens; we’re all just brothers and sisters under one loving god; imagine that.
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