Friday, April 10, 2009

The Editor's Notepod, Fri., Apr. 10, 2009

Cheshire: traffic/crossing problem in front of the high school on route 10. Police can do all the enforcing they like. People -- both pedestrians and drivers won’t behave better when not watched. The problem is that both kids and drivers are hurrying to get to school or work, and are impatient with the other. The solution is to put the parking area on the same side of the street as the school. It’s not a good idea to have large numbers of people required to cross a busy street at rush hour.

State: There’s talk of eliminating any number of sales tax exemptions. There are a lot of these which make little sense, and the rules are a hodgepodge of definition and contradiction. Yet wholesale elimination of the rules, in the name of the rather slender total amount to be raised seems kind of foolish without decent discussion of why the exemptions exist. Better to raise the existing tax by a full percentage and leave the rest alone.

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