The Editor's Notepod, Sun., Dec. 5, 2010

Wallingford: no big surprise that residents have not been furiously calling about the new assessments received in November, despite a December 9 deadline for appeal. But even though the general assessment was downward, people can still face tax increases based on either reallocation of tax burden from commercial to residential or on an increase in expenditures.

The movement in Connecticut to change the rules on access to original information concerning adoption is interesting and important particularly regarding medical history. But the actuality of ex post facto changing a legally private arrangement after the fact because social views have evolved is somewhat troubling.

Southington’s denitrification plant has some glitches which are interesting chemically (since this is an inherently interesting process) but kind of expensive to control. It’s a good effort to have completed this plant and saves the cost of buying nitrogen credits while helping the plants and animals which inhabit Long Island Sound and which play a part in the state economy.