Southington/State/Region: Word that Hartford HealthCare and Hospital of Central Connecticut are “courting.” From the hospitals’ point of view it is probably a wonderful idea, eliminating the need to compete for patients (the reality of which has always contradicted the notion that a hospital is somehow a charitable organization). For the public? It creates an even larger institution, perhaps well-situated to access benefits of scale, but also situated to do pretty much what it wants as the only 500-lb gorilla in the area, leaving the other 500 pounder (Yale) to its own devices. It’ll be able to tell the state and any municipalities what it wants and how low to bow, will it not?
Cheshire: Continued discussions and persuasions about Pratt keep it above the event horizon. Is the price of keeping Pratt to be expressed by a change of vote on the F-22 Raptor? That’s kind of suggested. Why doesn’t the company make some other sort of engine?
Wallingford: The Pelkey case, after 20-something years, a new trial? I can’t imagine that. No defendant!
State: Republicans have issued another plan with no tax increases, they allege. What do they think increases in fees are? And do they really think they can solve the problem by reducing waste? Perhaps they believe all government is waste, but going after the fraud and waste isn’t going to solve a multi-billion dollar problem.
Southington: Even as Wallingford voters will be getting Charter Revision including a plank to reduce the budget-veto override majority, making it easier, Southington voters may receive a proposition to raise the Finance Board override majority, making it harder. It’s all a trick or perspective.
Wallingford: The council races increase by one as Zandri qualifies.
Meriden: Meanwhile, the mayoral race grows by one as Petrucelli petitions
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