Debate over sales tax on Internet sales this year in the Connecticut legislature should be highly entertaining, not to say passionate. There are many citizens who shop on-line precisely because of its non-taxable status, but many government observers see little reason (particularly when Internet sales eat into sales tax revenues) not to tax purchases made by this means.
Meriden’s school board has an open door policy at meetings and is willing to listen to anyone on a matter scheduled for discussion by the board for three minutes, but takers are few. It’s not a secret: schools are expensive, it’s complicated, but the members are interested to hear the people and to be as responsive as possible.
There’s only one way to enforce the rules against liquor-selling establishments, it seems, even though education is carried out in Southington. A sting operation caught 50 percent of the outlets checked.
So Connecticut's Senator-elect Blumenthal got a good seat (although he paid for it) at a Huskies game for security reasons, according to the head of the athletic department, and the situation has led to speculations on ethics. There will be some observers, though, who grumble and wonder what the point of being a public official is if it doesn’t bring with it anything as trivial a front-row seat, be they at a ball game or at the symphony?
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