Southington: Union grievance over promotion of a new captain. Issue, I suppose, is his "outsider" status, though I'd think that a guy who has spent years as a state trooper and gotten a law degree to specialize in defending police from lawsuits would be an insider. The charge of being a "drinking buddy" is hard to prove and hard to disprove, but there's a long history of a union, not particularly this union, objecting to anyone entering at high level from outside.
Meriden: Crown Street as highway. From a personal standpoint, I would be terrified to exceed the limit. There are almost always people on the sidewalks and people in front of the homes, and there is very little extra space. Cars are often poorly parked, and as the story notes, there are too many of them. I don't know what can be done about it, really.
Wallingford: I continue to think those paraprofessionals in Wallingford have an issue. It's a bargaining issue, not a civil rights issue (though it's strange that in this country it somehow seems not to be a civil rights issue), and we supported them earlier.
Meriden: Downtown board painting. This is not about the Italian flag, really! It does seem to be about who gets to tell other people what to do. Have there been earlier problems? I haven't heard of any; but to dismantle about the Design Review Board before there's any complaint seems a little silly. It's not an archaism, but it does need to have its ducks lined up if it's going to tell other folks what to do.
Meriden: Council's Economic Development (etc) Committee votes not to sell 31-acre parcel just down range from the airport runway to be developed as houses. That's a no-brainer. Why would anyone -- other than a devel-oper, who wouldn't have to live there -- want to build at the end of a runway? IT would only exacerbate the Airport/Meriden vs Wallingford issues which already exist.
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