Thursday, November 20, 2008

The Editor's Notepod, Thursday, November 20, 2008

Southington: there’s trouble in the police department. On paper, the chief’s hiring decision had a certain logic to it, but it certainly seems to have touched a nerve with the guys on the force. There needs to be some intervention to solve the situation, before it gets out of hand!

Region: gas price hovers around $2/gal., regular, less than half what it was on June 18. Consumer prices are actually dropping. For the first time in 50 years, the CPI has declined, moved by gas and oil and other items, I guess. We’ve not had much experience with deflation. What does it mean?

Meriden: man arrested for what I suppose is consumer fraud. Instead of the advertised crack cocaine, he sold an undercover agent a bag of crumbled sheet rock. That too is a crime: “misrepresentation of a substance as a controlled substance.”

Southington:
Beaton and Corbin receiving focus for clean-up. About time, I’d say, but the grant money to do this is in fairly short supply.

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