Wallingford: as anticipated, the school board passed a budget requesting 4.56% increase and with 83.2 layoffs instead of 117, as originally proposed. Hard to think that Dickinson won’t chop the increase at least in half, and create a real challenge for the board.
Business: banks get new rules on credit cards, are a darn good thing. It’s hard to imagine why they haven’t always been the law.
State: the budget reducing options aren’t really so awful if only Democrats and Republicans would stop posturing about each other and get on with making a compromise by splitting the difference.
Cheshire: the report on the police issues between chief and union received. The sooner it’s made public, the sooner everyone can get on with life.
Wallingford: visiting nurses contract setting out to be a big donnybrook. One hopes it can be decided on merits rather than technicalities. Again, it never ceases to amaze how conflicts of interest are not perceived by public officials. Service in two capacities, regardless of compensation, suggests a divided interest and a split in loyalties which should hint to people that they should be very circumspect, regardless of any opinions of the law department or even the board of ethics.
Meriden: surely, meeting future power needs of the state requires both increased capacity and reliability of transmission AND new generating capacity. Is the siting council required to select either NRG or CL&P? Something must someday happen to that unfinished power plant.
Wallingford: the behavior of the Housing Authority is on the disgraceful side, making a political football out of the lives of tenants. Both parties are to blame, and both are way too closely involved.
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