To the Editor,The Newtown Bee in order to share your feelings about what is happening in our town. Then, we decided that it would be fun to write about, and share some of our favorite parts of Newtown...
To the Editor:The Population Bomb, by Paul Ehrlich. This book was forced on most high school students and it proceeded to propagandize them with the dire warnings and predictions of a world population...
To the Editor:The Newtown Bee recently referred to as "common sense gun legislation" is a curious phenomenon. If we for the moment relinquish all suspicions of hidden agendas and ulterior motives, we ...
To the Editor:The Bee to represent and serve all Newtown residents, regardless of their viewpoints.The Bee for a sense of community. Please let "sense of community" prevail as The Bee's driving missio...
To the Editor:
In any time, troubling or not, it can be instructive to view current events within a combined legal and historical prism.
Here's one, very brief case in point that seems to have relevan...
To the Editor:
Thank you so very much to all of the volunteers, big and small, who came out to help me prime the walls [for the Church Hill Road mural project] on May 20. You have given me the largest...
To the Editor:
Hopefully many of you have heard or read of my intention to seek the endorsement of the Republican Town Committee for the office of first selectman. I write now to announce that while i...
To the Editor:
This is a response to last week's "State of Our Union" [letter from Richard Cole, Letter Hive, May 19, 2017].
While I do agree with some points in your letter and disagree with others, ...
To The Editor: Exit The Body was a terrific play and everyone seemed to have a great time. The Little Theatre is one of the gems in our community and Friends of Newtown Seniors is a group whose missio...
To the Editor:
There's something rotten in the state of Newtown and it smells like the community center.
After two years of legislative tinkering and much hemming and hawing, the community center desi...
Thank you so much for your support, Dan!! I am so thrilled to hear that I have earned your trust, and I will work like heck to earn the trust of residents all across Newtown. Lots of work ahead but I'm looking forward to every minute of it!
It is music to my ears to hear you say "I want to hear more from both Michelle Embree Ku and Brandon Moore before I decide who I think is the best candidate."
I take my responsibility very seriously as a candidate to be as open, available, and transparent as possible. It is fundamental to our democracy for voters to be able to hear directly from those seeking their support. I'm really looking forward to every future opportunity to speak to you, Kathy, as well as all Newtown voters! Thank you for such a thoughtful letter!
I look forward to hearing about RTD's to be scheduled protests over the following public hearing controversies during the most recent legislative session. Or does it only matter if the person has an (R) next to their name?
(1) Emergency Certifications: The Democratic supermajority for used "emergency certification" for bills—such as those on election security or worker protections—which allows them to bring legislation directly to the floor without a public hearing.
(2) Midnight Cutoffs: During a March 2026 Public Health Committee hearing on vaccine mandates, Democratic leaders voted to end the hearing at approximately 12:15 a.m., which resulted in hundreds of residents who waited all day to speak losing their opportunity to testify in person.
(3) Limiting Testimony: Democrat-led committees, such as the Education and Public Health committees, imposed time limits or capped public testimony on highly contentious bills related to vaccines, parental rights, and homeschooling.
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