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Why a pool in Byram at all?
If the Junior League wants to pay to build one for the local residents I don’t suppose it’s anyone else’s business, but there’s no reason Greenwich taxpayer funds should be spent on this project. There’s a beach in Byram, … Continue reading
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Another flop
Amyris gives up on biofuels, will make cosmetics instead. I feel sad for all the investors in this failure, particularly Senator Diane Feinstein, who put a million of her husband’s’ money into it just weeks before Obummer came along with $24 … Continue reading
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An old chestnut returns
27 Vineyard Lane is back, this time at $2.995 million instead of last month’s $2.8. Unless they drained the surrounding swamp, I see no reason why this property should have gone up rather than down but then, I’m not the listing … Continue reading
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Getting better – in fact, maybe there
Five Bridal Path Lane (Pilot Rock area at the end of Indian Head) dropped a cool million off its price today to $6.950 million, down from $7.995 and way down from its first price (different broker) of $12 million back … Continue reading
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FWIW’s first ad
My daughter Kat’s string band needs a new (new to them) van and is trying a fund raiser. They’re quite good – played at Sundance a couple of weeks ago to a packed house – but like philosophy, the arts aren’t exactly … Continue reading
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Gentlemen, start your Hummers!
Electric cars cause more pollution than gasoline – powered vehicles. We don’t call them coal-powered cars for nothing. Now if we had nukes …. KNOXVILLE—Electric cars have been heralded as environmentally friendly, but findings from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, researchers show … Continue reading
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Whoops! Or, why I hate the new MLS rule requiring that accepted offers be reported
21 Cat Rock Road, reported as having an A/O just ten days ago, is back up for sale. It’s useful for the rest of us realtors to learn about accepted offers because it helps us keep up with the market and get … Continue reading
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We’re running out of old folks in Greenwich
Or that’s what you might think judging from sales at the Lyon Farm condo project. Take, for example, 123 West Lyon Farm, back on today at $875,000 after two years trying to get $1.1 million. It sold for $895 in … Continue reading
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It’s not only illegal, it threatens your health
Medical Schools discriminating against blacks. Well no, actually, they’re doing the exact opposite and letting in unqualified (judging from test scores and GPAs – if you have other criteria you’d like to use to evaluate your doctor, go ahead). This is, … Continue reading
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Adding to inventory, subtracting, too
55 Burying Hill Road is back up for sale, asking $7.495 million after failing to sell last year for $8.750. Owners paid $5 million for it in a bidding war (!) back in 2000 and obviously put some additional money … Continue reading
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You’d think after Whitney’s death he’d be moving on to rehab
Obama sees recovery one-to-two years away.
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So where is Owlgore?
Not in Bulgaria, apparently, where the coldest winter in memory has snowed in the babushkas (do they have babushkas in Bulgaria?)
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This shall not stand!
In an obnoxious attempt to ruin both my and Walt’s evening, Old Coot sends along this story of a Connecticut Catholic school banning schoolgirl uniforms of plaid skirts and knee socks. Oh, the humanity! Can’t these people content themselves with … Continue reading
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Is the New York Times anti-Semitic?
They’re certainly pro-Muslim terrorist, but whether that’s just a suicidal impulse on behalf of its editors or truly an expression of anti-Semitism depends, I suppose, on your politics. M. Zudi Jasser is a physician, a U.S. Navy veteran, an American patriot … Continue reading
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If you can’t sell it, rent it
33 Club Road has rented for $19,500. That’s a bunch of money.
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If you’ve doubted that the world is ending:
Puerto Rico plans to slaughter iguanas and sell the meat in the (real) United States With Auschwitz closed and that source of prostitutes eliminated, Germans turn to animal brothels where bestiality has become “a lifestyle choice”. Midwestern pig farms are exploding, … Continue reading
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Show…hoaw ya doin’? Indians sue liquor companies for keeping them drunk. Alcoholism on the reservations is a terrible, tragic problem, but I don’t think suing the booze manufacturers addresses the problem. But if it eliminates just one incoherent call center operator … Continue reading
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It’s getting lonely at the ball for Dollar Bill
Mid-western states choosing economic recovery over anti-fracking wackos. DB and his crowd are being left behind.
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Don’t ask me
18 Edson Lane, off Round Hill, was recently reported to the MLS as selling for $5.850 million. Today in the paper it’s shown as selling for $5.250. Which was it? My hunch is that the broker got it right and … Continue reading
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