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Fort Trumbull Circa 2008: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
Submitted by Michael Hampton on Tue, 2008-05-06 23:42.- Claire Gaudiani
- Connecticut
- Connecticut College
- Corcoran Jennison
- DECD
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Economy
- eminent domain
- Fort Trumbull
- HUD
- Kelo v
- Kristine Foye
- Marty Jones
- Michael Joplin
- New London
- New London Development Corporation
- NLDC
- Pfizer Pharmaceutical
- Politics
- State of Connecticut Department of Economic and Communi
After the last few resistors departed in 2006, Corcoran Jennison, the preferred developer for the Fort Trumbull project, got cracking on a tony utopia. A thousand condos bloomed. Crowds of affluent young professionals now sip lattes and tap laptops in cafes overlooking the Long Island Sound. Revenues are rolling in. Property taxes have been slashed and children are learning to read and write as well as kids did a half century ago.
The real squeal:
DiggBen Bernanke Walks into a Bar, Andrew Cuomo Appraises the Nation
Submitted by Michael Hampton on Sun, 2008-03-09 20:34.Jeez. The Clinton Obama show is killing comedy. Great jokes are getting lost in the sauce. Did you hear the one about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke? Ben walks into a bar. A pair of antlers on his head. "Been cuckolded, mister?" asks a chippy, trying for a pickup. The bartender (a squirrelly guy with no chin) answers for Ben. "Nah -- he's just worried about stagflation."
Not.
