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Deconstruct This

Deconstruct This

by | Nov 29, 2025 | , ,

Connecticut Politics: Behind the Scenes of the CT Special Session. A single photo from Connecticut’s recent legislative special session reveals the stark reality of state politics. Discover how Senator Tony Hwang stood up for the poor during the healthcare debate, even as his colleagues—Democrats and Republicans alike—scattered after the main event, the controversial Housing legislation (HB 8002), was passed. Read our filter-free, first-person account of the lack of attention given to critical issues like federal healthcare assistance cuts and help for underprivileged children in Hartford. Uncover the “cruel optics” of the empty Senate chamber and the political drama you didn’t see in the media.

The 2% have spoken. Here’s what you said.

The 2% have spoken. Here’s what you said.

by | Nov 28, 2025 |

Top 3 Issues
Fairfield, CT residents have spoken on the most urgent town issues, ranking them in order of priority: Towers (stopping major new construction and monopoles), Traffic (fixing poor road striping and engineering), and Taxes (concerns over residential reassessment, commercial tax negotiation, and sewer fees). The overwhelming sentiment is a feeling of being unheard and a desire to “Save Fairfield” by addressing rapid development and maintaining the town’s quality of life.

Revolutions by the century

Revolutions by the century

by | Oct 28, 2025 | , ,

Your pocket guide to revolutions by the century, anglocentric edition. The 1700s were about the rights of man, notably with the American and French revolutions. We had ours first. In the 1800s, the industrial revolution moved the world from a rural agrarian economy to an urban manufacturing one. That’s what contributed to the rise of capitalism and capitalists, people who owned the company but didn’t do the work. Two world wars in the 1900s created a new order with America emergent in the second half. Starting around 2000ish, Google revolutionized the world by putting it at your fingertips. The revolution is brought to you by Google.

Hartford is pushing concrete, but Fairfield is pushing back.

Hartford is pushing concrete, but Fairfield is pushing back.

by | Jul 26, 2025 | ,

At the 7/10 RTM ‘special’ session in Fairfield, the Connecticut Municipal Development Authority (CMDA) came to advance its pro-developer agenda. This initiative is effectively the brother of the just-defeated HB 5002 bill. It represents yet another attempt by Hartford to impose a construction-first agenda on local communities. The CMDA is using state-borrowed money to rewrite local zoning codes on a town-by-town basis to allow for more density and bigger buildings.