A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO ALL MY FRIENDS:

“THE POWER OF GOODBYE”

I thought I would post this item featured in “The Smoking Gun.” It features complaints about toll collectors from motorists who travel the Jersey Turnpike. If it weren’t so disgusting, it would be funny in a weird sort of way.

Click HERE for story.

I know the big talk around Cheshire is this ICMA report on the Cheshire Police Department. Hopefully, Town Council person Tim White will let us in on the skinny if he can. Most of the discussion took place in executive session (if not all of it).

I JUST READ TIM WHITES BLOG ON THE POLICE UNION CONTRACT. THE FIRST YEAR THEY GET NO RAISE!!   THE SECOND YEAR 2.o PERCENT.

IT REALLY IS UP TO THIS TEACHERS UNION IN CHESHIRE TO TAKE THE HINT!!! AS FAR AS THE DISPATCHERS GO-THEY NEED A GOOD CONTRACT AND A GOOD RAISE. WE CAN’T HAVE PEOPLE OPERATING THE DISPATCH THAT ARE NOT DISPATCHERS THAT DON’T KNOW HOW TO OPERATE EQUIPMENT. DO THE FIVE TOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT VOTED AGAINST THEIR CONTRACT  GET MY DRIFT?? THAT IS ALL I WILL SAY ABOUT THAT!!

HERE IS AN INTERESTING ARTICLE ABOUT THE SITUATION WITH THE DISPATCHERS AT THE MADISON POLICE DEPT, MADISON CT. IT’S STRANGE-THESE DOCUMENTS WERE RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC AND IT INVOLVES PERSONNEL!!

Click HERE for story.

I am in the waning days of Underground Town Hall. I did export all of my files and did a screenshot. I will  miss Underground Town Hall, but I am moving on so that is how it is. I know now, this is the right time to let go. It just wasn’t before.

I thank all of my readers for their support. I am going to Kansas in a few months,  and I just found out that Kansas State will be freezing salaries among staff. Now, if this is happening here at a Top 10 university, I don’t see why the Union for the Cheshire Teachers can’t do the same.

In the spirit of that Sunlight website, I did come across a site that lists the top research Universities in the nation and their average Professor salaries. UCONN is fairly high up on the list with the average  research professor making approximately $113,000 a year. Kansas State is nearly at the bottom with the average salary hovering around $96,000 a year.

OMG-I know two “professors” if you will, at community colleges that MADE $10,000 a year MORE THAT THE AVERAGE  RESEARCH PROF AT K-STATE. AND K-STATE IS RANKED SIXTH IN THE NATION AND HAS HAD APPROXIMATELY 42 Rhode Scholars. The only two schools that have had MORE are YALE AND HARVARD!!

Also since 1986, Kansas State ranks first nationally among state universities in its total of Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater, and Udall scholars.

All I can say to those nasty commenters-you couldn’t get into the MEN’S ROOM AT KANSAS STATE!!

Click HERE for Salary Comparisons at the “Very High” Research University facilities.

Speaking of research, do you know about LASIK surgery? Of course you do:

Among the university’s research facilities are the James R. Macdonald Laboratory for research in atomic, molecular and optical physics, the Konza Prairie Research area, and the NASA Center for Gravitational Studies in Cellular and Developmental Biology. The excimer laser, which made LASIK eye surgery possible, is among the inventions discovered in Kansas State’s facilities.

Other research facilities include:
*Insitute for Environmental Research
*The National Gas Machinery Laboritory
*TRIGA Mark II Nuclear Research Facility
*Semiconductor Materials and Radiological Technologies (S.M.A.R.T.) Laboratory
*Center for Complex Fluid Flows

Also, I know this isn’t a biggie, but YOU USE IT EVERY DAY-THE SNOOZE BUTTON ON YOUR ALARM CLOCK WAS INVENTED BY A K-STATE PROFESSOR!!

Kirstie Alley is a K-State graduate; so was Gordon Jump the Maytag repairman and WKRP in Cincinnati; Earl Woods, father of Tiger Woods, graduated from K-State; Marlon Fitzwater, former Reagan press secretary also Erin Brokovitch just to name a few.

I will keep posting until Friday. That will be my last post.