Saturday, January 22, 2011

The Editor's Notepod, Sat., Jan. 22, 2011

Unions in Meriden, some of them anyway, whose contracts have come up recently, have taken a sensible strategic road with the Board of Education. Low raises, they hope, will help keep expenses of the district own and help avoid layoffs in the bad budget year ahead.

The plan developed for that strip of downtown Wallingford along the railroad is certainly a start, and gives folks something to think about, if, as and when the train service expands. Something should be suggested, and if folks don’t really like the proposal for one reason or another, they have the option of coming forward with something better.

The several feet of snow which have fallen in Connecticut so far this winter (in many places more in a month than is usual for a whole season) are challenging to residents. It is time to figure out what the North Atlantic Oscillation is and how it affects our weather from decade to decade – not that this will really help us deal with the results.

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