Meriden: Council voted to go the hybrid route, as expected, but not with complete unity. That’s to be expected, too, and no doubt the public will continue to hear about the single school option as well as the “do nothing” option.
Area: It seems sort of absurd that although every school in the area is spending several full days, as required, subjecting everyone to the CMTs and the CAPTs, and that somehow no results (which are of no benefit to individual students and do not impact their grades) are received until after school ends in June, three months or more from now.
Meriden (and other towns): one has to wonder at budget season each year, how things would be if school boards, instead of going hat in hand to councils, were given the authority to set their own tax rates. It could be a disaster, but it might also mean we stopped playing games about surpluses.
State: both large and smaller liquor outlets locally seem opposed to ending the ban on Sunday sales of alcohol, although there are border town shops which think it would be helpful and there are estimates of increased tax revenues (which assumes more sales). The matter should be debated.
State: Speaker Donovan wants to create a power authority in the state to purchase for small utilities. Why not go all the way and re-regulate electricity, both in generation and transmission? The deregulation seems not to have worked.
State: The economy, as explained by various politicians, is terrible and can only get worse. But you notice that no candidate suggests programs or services to cut. Donovan’s optimism may have some “rose tint” in the glasses, but it’s still a refreshing break from gloom and doom.
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