Thursday, October 1, 2009

The Editor's Notepod, Thur., Oct. 1, 2009

Cheshire: To name or not to name, that is the question when it comes to identifying kids arrested for illegal under-age possession of alcohol. There are several considerations, including shaming, punishing, disciplining evoked in school, conviction vs. accusation, comparison with other transgressions.

Meriden: Atty Mazzariello does justice in the streets. Students of legal history may recall (or may not) that it was by offering better justice that the early English kings established the common law and displaced the tyrannies of baronial courts. Will it now be the case that suppliants at Judge Mazz’s “street court” will draw people because of the chance to proceed informally, cheaply, and without the centuries of encrusted legal precedents and rules?

State: water bottles, as in bottled water, now subject to deposit. It’s a good thing, since at very least it provides a way for a number of down and out folks to survive – by collecting and returning empties other people are too careless to bother with.

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