Monday, September 14, 2009

The Editor's Notepod, Mon., Sept. 14, 2009

State: A big law suit (what else?) brewing among lawyers over the ethics of an Internet referral system. Note: when the law making certain referrals a felony was passed in Connecticut, attorneys still lived and died by the "Minimum Fee Schedule." The case should be instructive: lawyers' rules may be steeped in tradition, but the marketplace doesn't care much for tradition.

Southington: and elsewhere . . .The US postal service has removed certain little used collection boxes. While one can easily see the sense in removing low-volume boxes, isn't it rather like removing one's limbs, joint by joint, until there's nothing left? What's the future for the USPS?

State: Police seem to have found Annie Le's body in the utility area of her building. This seems to be a pretty nasty case.

Wallingford: it's necessary, one can only admit, but how much time and effort will the Wallingford School system, and every other school system have to spend teaching what's on the Mastery Test in order to satisfy the federal government's arbitrary goals?

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