Archive for April, 2009
Governnment Spending Reductions, Program and Agency Consolidation Needed
It’s time that Connecticut government lives within its means.
How do we accomplish that? Reduce spending.
Residents throughout the state have called for that course of action since the news media stepped up its coverage of Connecticut’s budget problems—a deficit of at least $8 billion over the next two years. Throughout the last year my Capitol [...]
Bacchiochi Hails Passage of Bill to Permit Flags on Veterans’ Graves
HARTFORD—State Rep. Penny Bacchiochi today hailed passage of a bill that would prohibit towns, cemetery associations, or ecclesiastical societies that care for cemeteries from restricting the placement of flags on veterans’ graves from the Saturday before Memorial Day until the Monday after July 4 in each year.
Somers resident Bacchiochi said An Act Concerning the Placement [...]
Bacchiochi, Legislature Honor Former Area State Rep.
Rep. Penny Bacchiochi introduced a resolution honoring the late Renato “Bigo” Calchera. From 1959 to 1967 he represented Stafford in the legislature, and from 1967 to 1971 it was Ashford, Stafford, Union and Willington. Rep. Calchera died last month. He was 104. Rep. Calchera was a Democrat, and he also served as assessor and a [...]
Bacchiochi Teaches Social Skills to Elementary Students
SOMERS — A firm handshake while looking someone in the eye is a great way to greet someone for the first time, and it’s a move common among most great leaders, Rep. Penny Bacchiochi told a group of Somers Elementary School students today. Bacchiochi participated in the school’s Social Skills Convention, which had adults of [...]
Bacchiochi: Businesses to Feel Pinch in Disappointing Plan
HARTFORD—Life for struggling Connecticut residents and companies would grow more difficult under a budget proposal from the legislature’s majority that threatens to increases taxes dramatically, Rep. Penny Bacchiochi said Thursday. Connecticut businesses, already harried by an overabundance taxes and regulations, would be struck particularly hard by the proposal from majority legislators, whose budget proposal carries [...]
