Showing posts with label Kallie Jurgens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kallie Jurgens. Show all posts
Sunday, February 16, 2014

VIDEO: Charlestown tapas

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Tidbits of the politics and life of Charlestown Includes: The right to vote with your money The right to vote with your feet Shakin...
Sunday, January 5, 2014

Charlestown’s lack of concern leaves residents in the cold, Part 2

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Steps Charlestown can take on its own to improve the local economy By Will Collette In Part 1 , I reported the latest spike in Char...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Untold Story: How the CCA stole the 2010 election

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From those openness and transparency people By Will Collette In 2010, the Charlestown Citizens Alliance stole the election – from ...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Do political parties matter?

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Depends on who you ask, where you ask and how you ask it By Will Collette In the recent debates over the importance of political pa...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Things you’d like to know about the Charlestown Citizens Alliance – but were afraid to ask

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2012 Field Guide to   Charlestown ’s shadow government, Part 1 By   Will Collette Former CCA President and present Town Council Vice...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

CCA adjusts leadership as old members leave the state

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Did they have elections and nobody knew? By Will Collette With no announcement, just some minor modifications to the leadership list...
Friday, December 23, 2011

This is what the Homestead Tax Credit could look like, if this was Florida

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An example of how Homestead exemptions work out for one Charlestown property owner By Will Collette Two people who didn’t speak at the De...
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Should Charlestown residents get a tax cut?

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It's time to REALLY make housing affordable By Will Collette Charlestown is about to embark on its own mini-version of the current nat...
Sunday, October 2, 2011

UPDATED: FAQs about the Charlestown Citizens Alliance

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Revised guide to Charlestown ’s shadow government By Will Collette What is the CCA?   That’s the Charlestown Citizens Alliance. It is an un...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

Short Takes and Crazy Politics

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Interior Sec. Ken Salazar Slattery and Salazar Not on Same Page. Council Vice-President Dan Slattery and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar ...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

CSI Charlestown - CCA Decoder Ring

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I read yesterday's article where Will explained what he found out about changes in CCA leadership and I was having a hard time followin...
Monday, July 18, 2011

CSI Charlestown - what happened to Tom Gentz and Dr. Krantz?

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Tom Gentz: Have you seen this man? UPDATED Here's one for the Missing Persons Bureau—only one month after announcing an internal le...

CSI Charlestown: DNA tests show CCA and RISC from the same gene pool

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$59.99 from Amazon.com There was a flurry of angry comments over a  Progressive Charlestown article I wrote that showed board interlocks...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

CCA re-shuffles the deck chairs

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The Charlestown Citizens Alliance sent out an e-mail message today about major changes in its officer ranks. The message begins by noting ...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

FAQs about the Charlestown Citizens Alliance

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What is the CCA? That’s the Charlestown Citizens Alliance. It is an unincorporated association started in 2006 now registered with the stat...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

A Guide to the Charlestown Citizens Alliance, Part 2: What went wrong?

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When the CCA started out as the umbrella for opponents to Jim Mageau’s reign on the Charlestown Town Council (2006-2008), they were a pre...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Class War Resumes: Pay up to prop up absentee owner home values

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The April 22th issue of the South County Independent carried a letter by Charlestown Town Council President Tom Gentz and Arthur Ganz, pres...
Monday, April 18, 2011

New tax rates affect households differently

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UPDATE: When the town published the official notice of the June 6 Financial Election, they posted a higher tax rate than the rate initially...
Saturday, April 9, 2011

Class War continues: Kallie Speaks?

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Tom and I have been posting detailed information and commentary about Charlestown ’s impending property tax shake-up since March 19 th whe...
Saturday, April 2, 2011

More short takes

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The Westerly Sun has finally run the story about Lisa DiBello 's case against the town. It ran on Page 1 today but is behind the Sun...