04/10/08 - Wall Street in D.C. - Wall Street Lions and Washington Lambs

Where Are The Answerers On The Huge Bailout

Robert D. Novak: Unanswered questions about the bailout of Bear Stearns

UnionLeader.com

AT LAST Thursday's Senate Banking Committee hearing on the government's historic bailout of Bear Stearns, two questions were expected. Who set the initial bargain basement price of $2 a share for the investment bank? Who picked JPMorgan Chase as the fortunate buyer? Those questions were not clearly asked, and were not answered at all.

The hearing was televised and attracted a packed audience. Details of the government's extraordinary intervention promised a tense interrogation. But this was not the customary confrontation between lame-duck Republican officials and majority congressional Democrats. On either side of the table were brothers, as if Wall Street had moved to Washington...

... as an adviser to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. The Treasury's Steel, a Dodd constituent as a Greenwich, Conn., resident, is a political switch-hitter contributing to both parties. His Democratic recipients include John Edwards, ...

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03/14/08 - Greenwich Newswire - Greenwich News Reports From The Greenwich Citizen

First Selectman Peter Tesei strolls down Greenwich Avenue with his 11-month-old daughter, Caroline, in the town s 34th annual St. Patrick s parade last Sunday.

GREENWICH CITIZEN photo

Amy Mortensen

St. Patrick's Parade Purrrrfect

From all angles, the St. Patrick's Day Parade down sunny Greenwich Avenue Sunday afternoon was purrrrrfect.

Auditors Document Moynihan Stole $529K From Parish

A web of deceit self-woven over years by the Rev. Michael Moynihan, ex-pastor of St. Michael the Archangel Church on North Street, was broken last Friday when auditing reports showed that the priest cannot account for $529,000 in disbursements.

Bringing Clergy Abuse Out of the Darkness

Those gathered in the auditorium of Greenwich's Christ Church Saturday listened attentively as John Marshall Lee, chairman of Voice of the Faithful's Diocese of Bridgeport chapter, addressed a topic that is current and weighty.

SPORTS:

GHS State Case, Claims LL Swim Crown

MIDDLETOWN - Greenwich High's boys swim Coach Terry Lowe has looked across the pool at the Class LL championships and seen Fairfield Prep Coach Bruce Jaffe, his most consistent rival, on the other side for about the last 40 years.

Greenwich Watches New Canaan Skate Away with Title

New Canaan Ices GHS State Championship Hopes

Rosenband Lights it Up, But Cards Fall

OPINION:

Cell Phone Rudeness: A New Wrinkle

Does the name Martin Cooper mean anything to you? Perhaps not. Cooper is considered the inventor of the first portable handset - cell phone, in today's parlance - and the first person to make a call on a portable hand phone.

Past, Present and Future Trailblazers

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