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AMY GUERRIERI NAMED A 'JOE'S HERO' FOR HER WORK IN APPALACHIA
09.04.12 at 4:50 PM
Greenwich Patch
By Patrick Barnard
Guerrieri, head of Old Greenwich-based nonprofit Rockin' Mom Appalachian Project (RAMP), was honored with a “Joe’s Hero” award and a personal visit by Senator Joe Lieberman on Friday.
Senator Joe Lieberman bestowed Amy Guerrieri, head of Old Greenwich-based nonprofit Rockin' Mom Appalachian Project (RAMP), with a “Joe’s Hero” award during a media event held Friday at RAMP's headquarters at 187 Sound Beach Avenue.
Launched by Sen. Lieberman in 2003, the “Joe’s Hero” awards recognize the accomplishments of outstanding citizens, organizations and schools in Connecticut.
Guerrieri — who along with her husband Robert runs Upper Crust Bagels in Old Greenwich and recently launched a line of healthy juice drinks for children called Rockin' Waters — founded RAMP three years ago after she learned through an ABC 20/20 special called "A Hidden America" that millions of children were going to bed hungr... Read More »WTNH: Officials discuss state of Long Island Sound
08.15.12 at 4:42 PM
By Jeff Valin
August 9, 2012
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH/AP) — All it takes is a moment with Sen. Joe Lieberman, and you know he's got the waters of Long Island Sound deep in his veins. That's why he wasn't about to overlook a chance to ensure that the vitality of the Sound resonates every bit as strong in the future.
"It takes eternal vigilance to protect Long Island Sound," Sen. Lieberman said.
And, with his time as a senator anything but eternal, Lieberman wants to make sure the torch that is Long Island Sound is received with equal passion by his successors.
"There are challenges ahead," Lieberman said. "Climate change will threaten the Sound, and some of the chemicals dripping in to the Sound will as well, so we've got work to do."
The outgoing senator hosted a roundtable discussion in New Haven Thursday, his passion not lost on his contemporaries.
"I think, environmentally, there's precious little that... Read More »Lieberman and Collins: Don't Wait Until After a Cyber 9/11 Attack
08.15.12 at 1:13 PMBy Senator Joe Lieberman and Senator Susan Collins
The Internet was born in October 1969, and for the first half of its life was just a tiny hamlet of academic and government computers networked in a way that made it easy for researchers to share their work — a digital Mayberry where people left their doors unlocked because there were few strangers to fear.
But this small-town architecture that remains the core of the Internet’s foundation is cracking under the demands placed on it as it has grown into a global megalopolis that touches almost every part of our daily lives. We use it for entertainment, communications, banking, commerce and to control the systems that open and close the valves and switches in our critical infrastructure — things like power plants, energy pipelines and our financial, transportation, and water systems.
Today, the Internet is under attack on all fronts. National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander blamed cyber-atta... Read More »
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