Saturday, January 2, 2010

The Editor's Notepod, Sat., Jan. 2, 2010

Meriden: January 1 is a good day to be born at MidState or anywhere else, and a hearty welcome to the first (and subsequent) babies of the year. However, Blue Moon or not, we don’t much hold scientifically with the notion of the lunar influence on human activities.

Wallingford: Thanks to the charter as it is written, one town clerk will succeed another because of the change in the council majority. This remains a silly way to decide on an important town office.

State: new credit card rules at state colleges and universities limits pushing credit cards. Why not just raise the age of majority back to 21? A lot of difficulties would be remedied, and the drinking rules would once again make some sort of sense: if you can’t get a credit card, for instance, it’s easier to say you can’t drink. On the other hand, responsible education about credit card use, combined with experience, makes sense as does responsible education and experience of alcohol.

Meriden: Interesting that the poll in the RJ about the use of the Hall Farm came out in favor of non-development. That’s not legal, of course, or scientific, and the owners have a range of development possibilities to choose from, but interesting all the same.

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