Meriden: you’ve got to hand it to the folks who own the Dunkin brand locally for enterprise. You also have to wonder what we did for breakfast before Dunkin. This will replace the one across the street, where the lease expires. I continue to wonder, given the traffic which often builds up around these outlets, if the rules are tough enough regarding traffic. Ultimately, as welcome as any development is in these parched times, one can wonder how many eateries are enough?
Area: expenses of a snowy winter. Each year is different, of course, but you’d think that after a couple of centuries of general experience and several decades of the more intensive 24/7/365 that we’d have figured out a less bumpy way of dealing with winter. The story also explains, though, why I saw a truck labeled “Salt Brine” spreading water on Hanover Street Wednesday.
Wallingford, Meriden: It is good that despite the concerns over liability and staffing and expenses local shelters are remaining open more hours during the cold snap.
State: Municipalities thinking about being authorized to impose other taxes to raise revenues as the state backs off. With due respect, this is backwards. What is the rationale for taxing hotels? They already pass on a 12% tax to guests. It’s all backwards. When the state backs off of funding legitimate municipal needs, it leaves the poorest towns to implement the most draconic strategies. It’s regressive de-taxification.
State/Wallingford: Deregulation being blamed for rising rates? I could have told you that years ago. What the separation of generation, transmission, and distribution means is that each entity gets to blame someone else. No wonder the rates go up. In defense of CL&P, though, it is fair to say that whenever it attempted to raise rates, before deregulation, every time consumer opposition would erupt way out of proportion to the raises sought, and it had all sorts of cockamamie charges and back-credits to add to its resulting bills.
Meriden: from early discussions at Board of Ed subcommittees, it’s easy to see that it is going to be a difficult year for setting spending requests and securing funding. We’re all going to try to remain civil, because we cannot remain uninvolved.
Cheshire: the affordable housing proposal. No one wants such people for neighbors, of course. It’s a telling point that some of the residents for “affordable housing” are town employees.
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It's definitely true that Dunkin leaves much to be desired, traffic-wise. In New Haven, lines from the D&D often block traffic on Dixwell Ave for several blocks, which is ridiculous, especially because there are 4 D&Ds in a less than 4 mile stretch.
I wonder how many fast-food establishment Meriden has in a two- or three-mile stretch of East Main. But where is the variety--an authentic Thai, Mexican, Northern Italian or Indian restaurant--anywhere in the city? We have to go out of town if we want more than steak, pizza, or fast food.
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