Saturday-Sunday-Monday, October 11-12-13, 2008

Monday, October 13, 2008

Towns, locally: bonding/lending could become difficult in the economic environment.

Wallingford: Television reception. This digital changeover is such a huge rip-off as far as I’m concerned, but in a nation where TV has become a sine-qua-non, I suppose it is a serious problem not to have reception.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Meriden: Housing market. Rentals. How is it that a landlord can be foreclosed without notice? I presume that means that the landlord gave tenants no notice. But surely, the tenant must still be evicted via the usual process, does it not? At least any tenant whose rent is paid on time.
State: Voter registration. It’s one thing to register young people, and so another to get them to vote when it comes time.

Wallingford: Town Councilor comes and talks in a civics class at Lyman Hall. This ought to be required of every councilor (probably easy to do, since most politicians are pretty gregarious) and of every civics class (harder to accomplish, since time must be found in the schedule, and it’s tough to account for time spent with a politician on No Child Left Alone).

Saturday, October 11, 2008

State: supreme court’s decision on same-sex marriages. As far as I’m concerned, this is only the other shoe. The civil union step, though laudable, doesn’t provide equality where it matters — which has nothing to do with the bedroom. I’m delighted the court ruled this way. A lot of people are upset, but it is not the court’s job to place an essentially sacred concept of “marriage” within the confines of state law.

Wallingford: the Ethics controversy. Apart from the economic advisability of going to self-insurance — which may or may not be wonderfully cheaper — the issue seems to divide between those who feel that non-execution of a local ordinance is an ethical issue and those who do not.

Meriden: It remains a useful thing for the race relations panel to be meeting.

Southington: new structure to police department. The new guy, Daigle, has some strong qualifications. It seems a bit unusual to me that an officer who has spent the time to get a law degree and who has been employed at a firm, will choose the full-time work in a department, but I can see the attractions of the calling.