The Editor's Notepod, Mon., Dec. 6, 2010

Requiring a fourth year of high school math education for Meriden students is a good step, but care should be taken not to do so at the expense of other subjects. One wonders, too, if that fourth year could not be eased into the existing three by accelerating studies for those most attuned.

Billboards, electronic, at the end of Barr Road in Meriden, near I-91? Why not, since we’ve already gotten into the business. The ultimate question, though, is “How many are enough?”