Tuesday, December 23, 2008

The Editor's Notepod, Tues., Dec. 23, 2008

Meriden: The approach being taken at Crestwood is to deal with each tenant individually. That’s fine, and it’s legal. But it also means that one tenant won’t be in a position to compare notes with others directly. Those who have missed the whole discussion will probably simply pay as requested, even if they have to eat dog food to do so. While I suppose ownership has every right to take rents to market values at will, once HUD rules expire, this is a situation which strongly recommends a legislative remedy.

State: the machine gun death in Massachusetts of that youngster at a gun show: now leading to criminal prosecu-tions. Local police chief, who also happened to be owner of a firm which promoted the gun show, now charged as is the owner of the club. Have they charged the father yet? He is a doctor and was on the spot, and instead of reaching to take the gun from the boy’s hands he was reaching for his camera. I hate to say so, but his was the on-the-spot error of judgment it seems to me. But of course he is already punished.

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