Area: School closings. The schedule is very tight, and almost any lost day threatens the existing vacation schedule. Why not negotiate to get rid of some of the incidental holidays? Drop, say, Presidents’ Day, Columbus Day, Veterans’ Day, Good Friday, MLK Day, most of which are not used for anything remotely approaching the observance of the significance of the holiday. Alternatively, drop the February week to begin with and move the April one back to mid-March. A third choice is to toughen up and hold school no matter what the weather.
Meriden: $1.8 million on the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program. I would think, if possible, that this money, all of it, would be best used to prevent residents who are currently being threatened with foreclosure keep up with their payments. I don’t know how this would work, but it seems to me this would stabilize things better than rehabilitating already-empty homes, or taking down Factory H, much though I support that idea.
Southington: I have the feeling that the town keeps at least some branches of local government on pretty short rations. Therefore, if they decide not to pay overtime, there’s not much chance people will stay and finish assignments on their own.
State: One becomes desperately tired of listening to the endless legal procedures in the Skakel/Moxley case. You know, the “Kennedy cousin.” I only know one thing about the case, regardless of who is the murderer: Skakel would never have been prosecuted if neither Skakel nor Moxley were persons of wealth and connections.
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