The developed information on town manager salaries, in Southington, in other towns in Connecticut, and in comparison to cities in the south and southwest, is informative and reassuring. Nothing, however, is new town manager Garry Brumback’s own comment that he knows “what I was getting into” here, that he wants to be in Connecticut, and that he’s not looking for a fortune.
The gun show in Wallingford over the weekend was a fine event, manifestly unthreatened by anything. One comment quoted in Record-Journal coverage was “a gun is no more dangerous than the person that uses it.” We’re fine with that, but the issue then is, how does anyone prevent the dangerous people from owning or using guns?
It is good to know that a special police unit in Meriden investigates sexual crimes. It remains alarming how much of the public believes that most sex crimes are committed by strangers, and how much energy is expended protecting against unknown outsiders when sadly the source seems most often to come from friends, family or acquaintances.
One of our state senators is bringing forward a bill to enable school boards to expel students convicted of violent sexual crimes, a measure many people would favor. It would be good to know ahead of time, though, what constitutes violent sex crimes under the law and roughly how many individuals might be thus subject to expulsion?
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