Tuesday, February 24, 2009

The Editor's Notepod, Tues., Feb. 24, 2009

Southington: town has convinced a number of teachers at high end to retire, meaning lower costs for salaries. What does it mean for experience?

Meriden: comparison between Summitwood and today’s Plan of Conservation and Development makes the POCD look good, naturally. But not as good as leaving alone in the first place.

Wallingford: Enterprise of Sheehan students in their Dominican Republic Mission team fundraiser.

Wallingford: do they actually mean that conservation programs are causing the rates for sewer and water and electricity to RISE, because the demand is lower? If that’s really true and not a twist or a spin, then we need to do something radically different about our conservation mindset.

Wallingford:
Sen. Fasano doesn’t want to see tolls return . . . but there are potential toll-collection methods which work electronically and which don’t mean slow-downs.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I agree that leaving the city-owned 300 acres on Cathole Mountain alone in it's natural state as open space is the way to go. Of course the current POCD plan looks better than the original Summitwood plan, but is it really necessary to build 12 McMansion's? That part of the plan is really non-essential to the economic growth of Meriden. Why not put the high-end homes idea to rest? Add the land to the open space inventory instead.