The Underlying Common Thread

Can anyone pin-point the underlying common thread that runs between the last three blog postings?

I am not looking for the obvious Chris Christie references on a national TV program or the demise of the middle-class at the hands of the GOP.

I'm looking for a much more local common thread, the one that effects residents in Middletown and the surrounding area more closely than whether or not Christie has national ambitions.

If you have any thoughts about it send me your comments, I'll post them, then I will give you what I perceive is the common thread between the last three postings.