Tag: School Bond

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The Dog Without Discipline: Inside Sherman's Uniparty

Sunday, May 10, 2026

While the First Selectman uses the local paper to lecture residents about park leash laws and undisciplined dogs, his own administration runs completely off-leash, ignoring state transparency statutes to hide a $50 million debt. Faced with this untamed political faction, independent journalism remains the only check on municipal power.

Obfuscate, Spend, and Stonewall: administration's desperate, illegal scramble to hide the public ledgers

Saturday, April 18, 2026

With an $18 million budget referendum looming, the Sherman administration is actively stonewalling state FOIA requests to conceal the reality of a $50 million debt bomb. Inside the $1.16 million fiscal shell game, disappearing cyber-insurance, and a decade-long executive salary surge.

The 7% Selectman: What Sherman’s Glossy Budget Mailer Didn't Tell You

Saturday, April 11, 2026

A forensic look at the town ledgers reveals hidden executive raises, phantom funds masking explosive debt, and a $1.16 million illusion designed to kick Sherman’s financial reckoning down the road.

Sherman's Fiscal Failure: Paving Roads, Padding Salaries, and Sherman’s $50 Million Illusion

Friday, March 20, 2026

A forensic audit of Sherman’s budgets from 2013 to 2026 reveals a decade-long pattern of severe fiscal mismanagement. The public ledger shows that the administration hoarded a $2.3 million surplus, increased executive compensation by 78%, and prioritized paving beach parking lots—all while overseeing the catastrophic decay of the Sherman School, resulting in a $50 million infrastructure crisis.

The Illusion of Stewardship: Bankruptcies, Budgets, and Sherman’s $42.8M Trap

Saturday, March 14, 2026

A local administration manufactured a public safety panic over a drone. The real threat, however, lies in the town ledgers—where years of deferred maintenance and a hidden $2.3 million surplus quietly laid the groundwork for a generational tax burden.

Demolition by Negligence: The Banality of Sherman’s $42.8M Crisis

Thursday, March 12, 2026

In municipal politics, we often mistake incompetence for malice. The true scandal behind the Sherman School bond is not that the administration engineered a crisis, but that they used a culture of fear to mask their complete oblivion to it.

2015 Question: The Leadership Failure Behind the $42.8M School Bond

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

A $42.8 million crisis is not an act of God; it is cultivated over time. As the town debates the staggering cost of the Sherman School, an uncomfortable question must be asked of the First Selectman's office.

The Sherman Caste System: The Quiet Weaponization of the Generational Divide

Sunday, March 8, 2026

The American Dream promises that a property deed brings political enfranchisement. But in Sherman, the administration has mastered a different civic contract: pitting the town against itself to protect the status quo.

A Tale of Two Snowstorms: Transparency, Steel, and Sherman’s Missing Construction Logs

Friday, March 6, 2026

First Selectman Don Lowe uses winter weather to boast of construction progress to the press while simultaneously citing it as a legal defense to withhold public records from the state.