Tuesday, December 21, 2010

The Editor's Notepod, Tues. Dec. 21, 2010

Open comment session of Meriden’s City Council drew 12 speakers Tuesday evening, and seemed to afford those who came a chance to express various concerns. Is this a First Amendment right? Who knows? More important, though, is “what happens next?”

Stream flow is back before the Connecticut General Assembly’s Regulations Review Committee, this time minus ground water rules which derailed the measure before. This is a step which needs to be taken in the public interest in ready and fair distribution of water supplies among towns, businesses and ecological concerns.

While legislators Adinolfi (Cheshire) and Fasano (Wallingford) are seeking to beef up three-strikes laws regarding “violent” offenders, they should reduce judicial discretion with great care. It is that discretion which protects many values.

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