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Monday, July 19, 2010
07/19/10 Help Rick Torres Defend Freedom
Thursday, July 15, 2010
07/15/10 Palmer Hill honored for design, amenities
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
07/14/10 Jim Himes' GRASSroots Tea Party Opponent Watches As His Congressional Campaign Goes Up In Smoke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjA0hy2kNzs&feature=player_embedded#!
Robert Merkles dad was a United States attorney who successfully prosecuted the Colombian drug baron Carlos Lehder Rivas, and many other potheads in Florida.
But somehow his dope smoking 32 year old son escaped jail time.
Mr. Merkle was the chief federal prosecutor for the Middle District of Florida from 1982 to 1988, a role in which he won not only a conviction of Mr. Lehder, whom the authorities described as having been responsible for 80 percent of the Colombian cocaine smuggled into the United States, but also an indictment of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, the Panamanian military ruler later captured in the American invasion of his country.
Mr. Merkle was a flamboyant prosecutor, who acquired the nickname Mad Dog for his aggressive style. Critics questioned his methods. Defense lawyers, accusing him of abusive and bullying tactics that they compared to McCarthyism. There were multiple Justice Department investigations of Mr. Merkle for inappropriate conduct.
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The owner looks at the TV set, then looks at Merkle, and says, "I don't sell stuff to potheads."
And the owner says, "I told you I don't sell to potheads!" So Merkle leaves again.
He comes back a week later and says, "How much for that TV?"
The owner says, "I'm not going to tell you again, I don't sell to potheads!!!"
Rob Merkle looks back at the owner and says, "How can you tell I'm a pothead?"
The owner looks back and says, "Because that's a microwave."
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
07/13/10 Hospice prides itself on meeting patients' medical, emotional needs
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
07/07/10 Gubernatorial Candidate Dan Malloy Slams Greenwich Resident Ned Lamont For Skipping New London Debate
The Chicken Man Is Afraid Of Getting Plucked:
The Day of New London, which traditionally co-sponsors the debate with WTNH-TV, announced Tuesday that Lamont is refusing to participate, forcing them to cancel the live event. The Republican candidates for governor will still face off on July 28.
Malloy and Lamont appeared together last month in their first TV debate. Malloy says he thinks Lamont won't participate in a second debate because a campaign focus group showed he did not perform well.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
07/06/10 A fitting bicentennial bash for Bridgeport's biggest celebrity
07/06/10 Beat The Heat - Stay Inside And Spend Tuesday's With Torres
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Monday, July 5, 2010
07/05/10 New Police Policy Raises Quota Questions - Stamford Advocate
Stamford police officers pulled over nearly three times as many drivers in May than the previous month after a directive issued by police brass to focus on driving violations.
State law prohibits ticket quotas, and at a police commission meeting last month, Chief Robert Nivakoffwas cautious not to characterize the directive as a quota.
"Every car has to make certain amount of traffic stops now," Nivakoff said.
The chief went on to say that traffic stops were up exponentially. In fact, police officers pulled over 2,077 drivers in May, the first month when the directive went into effect, more than three times as many motorists than in April, according to department data. Experts say the new emphasis on pulling over drivers comes at a cost: It ties up already strained manpower and may help create an undue impression that officers are under a quota system.
Assistant Chief Francis Cronin, the head of patrol operations and a former internal affairs lieutenant who was promoted earlier this year, said he met with patrol supervisors after he was first sworn in this April and told them to pick up traffic enforcement. He said he told officers to make at least two or three stops a day.
The increased focus on the traffic stops is a way to combat aggressive driving and make the streets safer, acting as a deterrent against people running traffic lights, stop signs and speeding through residential areas, Cronin said. One patrol supervisor said he gets at least one complaint a day from residents about drivers running red lights.
"These streets are not meant to be doing 60 miles per hour," Cronin said.
Officers were given latitude with how to resolve the traffic stop, either by issuing a ticket or a warning. Connecticut state law bans ticket quotas and prohibits law enforcement agencies from asking officers to issue a certain number of traffic summonses in a given time, but it does allow the number of tickets issued by an officer to be used as a performance measure.
"The emphasis is incrementally doing a little bit at the end of the week and the month and the quarter," Cronin said. "It shows a message to tell people to slow down and be courteous."
Traffic stop data from the Stamford Police Department show a stark increase in traffic stops in May, the month after Cronin was sworn in and when officers pulled over 2,077 motorists. The amount of traffic stops in May alone caused a 21 percent spike in traffic stops when comparing the first five months this year with the same time period in 2009.
Thomas Aveni, the executive director of the Police Policy Studies Council in New Hampshire, said having officers preoccupy themselves with traffic stops creates a trade-off in the department's allocation of resources, especially in busier patrol districts.
Spotting a marijuana roach in an ash tray, for example, could keep an officer occupied for the next two or three hours, Aveni said.
"Some say officer-initiated stops are, in fact, proactive patrol, and that might be true to one extent," Aveni said. "But it just depends on what you're giving up in exchange for it."
The new policy may help suppress illegal activity such as the drug trade -- some narcotics arrests begin as routine traffic stops that lead to vehicle searches -- but that happens only indirectly, according to Aveni.
A veteran law enforcement officer turned consultant, Aveni called the traffic stop policy a "public relations nightmare," saying it could lead to the perception that a quota system was in place. In a police department that places an emphasis on traffic enforcement, performance standards become another term for quota, Aveni said.
"Everybody finds a way to get around the limits that were set," Aveni said.
Aveni said municipal police departments should allocate their resources to the most pressing problem at a given time.
In Stamford, violent crime and narcotics activity do not reach the same levels as they do in other Connecticut cities of similar size. Congestion and traffic enforcement, or the lack of it, was an issue brought up by Democratic mayoral candidate David Martin. And patrol supervisor, Lt. Phil Mazzucco, said aggressive driving is a major concern among residents in his district.
"We know there's an issue here, and with the limited manpower we have, we're trying to address it as much as possible," Mazzucco said.
Mazzucco said that when patrol supervisors receive complaints of speeding or, for example, cars passing stopped school buses, they try to post a squad car in the area. Ideally, the department would have a traffic enforcement unit to patrol problem areas, but manpower is already stretched at the Police Department.
Sgt. Joseph Kennedy, president of the Stamford Police Association, said the new focus on traffic stops is a way to remain proactive with limited resources.
"Our main concern was that whether they were going to implement any kind of quota system, and that's not what they're doing at all," Kennedy said. "Our department has never been about that type of stuff anyway."
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Thursday, July 1, 2010
07/05/10 Reminder-Stamford Residents Are Invited To A BBQ At Rick Torres' House Tonight At 5:30pm
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
06/29/10 The Raw Stamford News Feed:
| Candidates present views on finances New Haven Register By Mary E. O'Leary, Register Topics Editor STAMFORD — R. Nelson "Oz" Griebel thinks holding the legislature to a regular session every other year and not ... | ||
| Stamford's Ballo wins second straight MGA Ike championship Stamford Advocate Stamford's Mike Ballo with his trophy after winning the 55th Ike Metropolitan Golf Association Stroke Play Championship for the second year in a row at ... | ||
| Stamford schools struggle to get testing down to a science Stamford Advocate STAMFORD -- During finals, Westhill High School students in three science courses received 15 extra minutes on their exams, throwing a wrench into the ... | ||
| Angela Carella: Tornadoes tend to miss Stamford Stamford Advocate In Stamford's southwestern corner of Connecticut, tornadoes are even more rare -- information from the National Climatic Data Center shows most have ... | ||
| Craig Ferguson: CBS talker doing stand-up in Stamford Danbury News Times The Palace Theatre is at 61 Atlantic St., Stamford. Wed 8 pm $38-$98. 203-325-4466, www.stamfordcenterforthearts.org. | ||
| Traffic sets tone for Gateway hearing in Stamford Stamford Advocate STAMFORD -- The fate of Gateway, a controversial office and housing development near the train station, appears to be hinging on whether the developer can, ... | ||
| Pops in the Park: Neil Sedaka kicks off Stamford series Ct Post The chart-topping singer/songwriter Neil Sedaka will perform in Stamford July 7 to kick off the Pops in the Park series at Columbus Park. ... | ||
| Downed power lines ignite brush fire in North Stamford Stamford Advocate STAMFORD -- Firefighters on Tuesday doused a large brush fire in North Stamford caused by downed power lines, city fire officials said. ... | ||
| Connecticut State Treasurer Awards Stamford CHET Dream Big! Winner Hartford Courant Stamford's Salome Alfaro, a second grade student at Toquam School, was awarded a $50 Merit prize for her drawing entry. Salome dreams of becoming an art ... | ||
| Montelli, Clinkscales, Pape earn call to Fairfield County Hall of Fame Ct Post Fairfield County Sports Hall of Fame for 2010 inductee Vito Montelli during the ceremony at the UCONN Stamford building June 29, 2010. ... |
| The Best of Times Online: Smiler in Stamford . . . By Debra Emery Each year Stamford Downtown hosts a distinguished outdoor sculpture exhibit designed to attract local and regional audiences. This year 40 oversized, originally designed and painted fiberglass cats and dogs will be on display on the streets and ... Stamford Downtown Special Services District Five Landmark Square, Suite 110. Stamford, CT 06901. Telephone: (203) 348-5285 email:dssd@stamford-downtown.com website:www.stamford-downtown.com. Posted by Debra Emery at 10:34 PM ... The Best of Times Online - http://thebestoftimesonline.blogspot.com/ | ||
| Budden in Training: Stamford KIC IT Triathlon By Chris Stamford KIC IT Triathlon. Here is what I liked about this race: Raised over $140K for Kids in Crisis charity... very impresive. Fastest bike split of the day was done by a 37 year old mom... amazing. This cool Black and White photo ... Budden in Training - http://buddenintraining.blogspot.com/ | ||
| Radical Normality: Stamford, CT or NOW That's What I Call the 90's! By Free Radical Stamford, CT or NOW That's What I Call the 90's! In honor of the Gin Blossoms and Soul Asylum playing at Stamford's Alive@5 concert series last week (which I wouldn't have been caught fatally wounded at). ... Radical Normality - http://radicalnormality.blogspot.com/ | ||
| Multimedia/Interactive Designer for E-Learning (Stamford, CT ... By admin Join the in-house media department at a publicly-traded billion dollar research corporation in Stamford, CT. Responsibilities: You'll be respons. New York - http://www.find-jobs-in-new-york.com/ |
| Contemporary Art in Stamford - Home and Garden - HG - Features 2010 The exhibit is currently happening at the Fernando Luis Gallery in Stamford, CT until Saturday, July 17. Fernando Luis Alvarez, Ross Mich Invasion, 2009 ... www.mofflymedia.com/Moffly.../HG.../An-Artist-with-Flair/ |
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