A judge has rejected Sen. Elect Markley’s (R. Southington) suit over electric rate surcharges used to finance a sale of future revenue bonds. It’s an interesting political/legal question which should draw some additional attention, even if it is equally an ingenious revenue ploy. Meanwhile, state customers of CL&P and UI will see 7.8 and 1.5 rate reductions as of January 2.
Connecticut’s public higher education system is preparing for tight budgets coming at them. The state pays only about a quarter of the total cost of operating universities and colleges compared to the tuitions paid by students, and has risen by only 83 percent over two decades (compared to the near 300 percent rise in tuition), and voters and legislators are reminded that there are only two sources of revenue for public education: taxes and tuitions.
Southington used the Townwide alert system during the snowstorm early this week and was pleased to find that the system actually worked quite well. As for citizens, well, some of them, who haven’t been particularly aware of certain electronic developments, were kind of bewildered about the calls, wondering how the town had obtained their numbers.
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