Sunday, August 9, 2009

The Editor's Notepod, Sun., Aug. 9, 2009

State: Towns and cities, and state government, discover or appreciate, finally, that the "shovel-ready" projects people expected when the stimulus package was being prepared, are not on the drawing board. Plenty of other money, but not for this sort of thing. A lot of hopes were raised and will be shaken, and that's not a good thing to happen.

Cheshire: a new massage parlor ordinance in the works, in reaction to the raid several months ago against a local shop, which also netted a couple of shops in Wallingford. If the illegal place was actually apprehended (it has overtones of illegal immigrants as well as prostitution) under existing laws, why is there a need for a new ordinance? Is there any hard evidence that such business are operating in Cheshire? There are state laws on the matter and licenses for masseurs.

State: Ct Jobs program, helping women on welfare achieve Independence, a victim of budget cuts in the latest executive order, failing a budget agreement. This would be one of the last programs to get the axe, but as so often happens, the weakest suffer first.

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