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Hey Granby! If there is a silver lining to 2020, maybe it’s the opportunity to question and reevaluate what works, what matters, and how prepared/ready we are as individuals and as a community to confront our challenges.
Neighbors, I felt compelled to draft a note to let you all know a little bit about our neighbor and 62nd District State Representative Candidate Mark Anderson.
Connecticut is facing multiple crises: COVID, an economic slowdown, climate change and healthcare. We need leaders in our state government that will listen to science in creating policy.
The recent article headlined, Granby gathers in a show of support for Black Lives Matter, highlights the passion and determination of Granby residents to enact change not only in our town, but in our nation.
The Social Justice Task Force was formed to bring a local and permanent effort to the bigger movement happening across our nation.
Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy should support federal funding for cultured-meat research.
This November’s election comes at an intersection of unique and unprecedented events that give us the opportunity to not only vote our values but also our conscience and show who we truly are.
We are confronting complicated and unsettled times. While the impact of COVID-19 is having a monumental impact worldwide and throughout the nation, our state and community, in particular, have shown significant improvement in terms of the number and severity of cases.
We are at a crucial revolutionary moment in history following the murders of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, among countless others. It is a rare and pivotal moment that presents an opportunity for sweeping and indelible transformation across our town and the nation to finally and boldly acknowledge that Black Lives Matter.
As great as Granby is, together, we can make it better. Together, we can help to end racism and injustice.