Middletown: $16.6 million in fines against the companies involved in that explosion. It all seems to have something to do with a gas blow, cleansing by natural gas under pressure — which does sound like a recipe for an explosion.
State: It appears that the state restrictions on teen drivers are a) reducing the numbers of accidents among the age group and also reducing the number of youngsters who get licensed right away. This is good and elected officials, while always needing to be sensitive to constituent requests, shouldn’t give in to parents’; needs to have older siblings drive younger ones about as soon as they can legally drive: restrictions make sense.
Wallingford has demonstrated once again that strict adherence to a principle, in this case refusal to grant any wage increase, can wind up costing more than the implementation of a reasonable negotiated contract with a minimal wage adjustment. A better principle might be that unless a board of education makes an egregiously deviant contract, the Town Council’s role is to rubber stamp the accord and get on with business.
Indications that there may be funding from the federal government for redesign of the Columbus Avenue bridge as a part of Meriden’s flood control program. Candidate comments remind us that a grant which is one person’s long-awaited dream can easily be another’s detested earmark.
Meriden takes a reasonable stand on graffiti (read, record and remove) and the problem, while an irritant, seems under control. And readers of the story about graffiti will have learned a new term which describes what many graffiti-artists are doing: “expressive tagging.”
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