“In the Colonies, we do not tolerate remote tyrants surveilling our habits and patterns.” — Thomas Paine-In-The-Rear, Uncommon Sense. While local town debates focus on traffic tickets and speed limits, a much larger municipal crisis is unfolding in Town Hall: data sovereignty. When town officials sign off on automated traffic enforcement programs, citizen license plates, movement patterns, and location timestamps get harvested and routed directly into out-of-state, third-party corporate clouds.
The surveillance cameras, facial recognition scanners in supermarkets, RR self-pay parking kiosks, virtually every homeowner’s Ring doorbell – all upload Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to the cloud. The town is pressured to abandon its prime directive of protecting its citizens’ PII.
A 2013 FEMA study placed nearly all seven miles of U.S. 1 in Fairfield in a flood zone—yet municipal planners continue to rely on obsolete maps to push high-density development and synthetic zoning overlays. With 13 years of rising sea levels, closed-door planning sessions, and third-party vendors redrawing traditional neighborhood lines, Fairfield must demand updated hydrology reports before finalizing its Town Plan.
Thomas Paine InTheRear drops a modern declaration for Fairfield’s future. Will we choose an unaccountable corporate dystopia or community sovereignty? Read the 13 foundational questions of the People’s Referendum and let your voice be heard.
When our dedicated public servants are not treated with respect or gratitude, we are going to lose them.
Fairfield (CT): The Open Table forum offered a rare look at what local leadership looks like in Fairfield County. While State Senator Tony Hwang and I are both running for First Selectman in the February 3, 2026, Special Election, this event wasn’t about the campaign trail—it was a critical “what do we do now” strategy session.
Matthew Hallock is officially on the ballot for Fairfield First Selectman as an Independent Reform Candidate.
Introduction. Fairfield has long enjoyed a reputation as “the town that has it all”. There was internal
agreement that we were one of the best towns in Connecticut – topped only by being on on
the cover of Money magazine as one of the top towns in America.
Hartford pushes a “Golden Corral” of power for the construction industry at the expense of residents. Learn how this dystopian legislation, a new House of Cards, is forcing high-density housing, ignoring local zoning, and exploiting communities. We honor Bill Gerber’s fight and reveal the truth through radical transparency.
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.
The call is for more than a special election; Fairfield needs a super special election, where all 60,000 residents can speak on the issues pressing the community today.
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.
The Charter Revision Commission was supposed to revise the Fairfield Town Charter, but it instead made highly questionable revisions that don’t serve the public good.