Wednesday, July 7, 2010

The Editor's Notepod, Wed., July 7, 2010

Wallingford: Anthem Blue Cross in the Mortgage Lenders building? Well, that would certainly solve a problem, and when companies make up their minds to do something, it is usually possible to get through the paperwork plug with astonishing speed.

Southington: it’s one thing to remove 80 cubic yards of soil from a property (which might be, say, a rectangular hole 24 feet long, 15 feet wide and 6 feet deep) and quite another to remove 40,000 cu. yd., in effect a hill, or a rectangular excavation, say, 120 feet wide, 300 feet long and 30 feet deep. Tabling was a good choice for the Planning and Zoning Commission.

Meriden: while the city needs to play by the rules with regard to 2041 North Broad St., the site of a former strip club and the site where a new owner wishes a special exception to open a “gentleman’s club” – a juice bar/strip club – it is hard to discern why such an establishment is the only choice for the property.

State: An insurance company – Health Net – somehow lost a disk drive with info on 1.5 million customers, including 450,000 CT residents, from its Shelton office last May and waited six months to tell customers. $250,000 in fines isn’t really enough of a settlement.

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