Sunday, January 2, 2011

The Editor's Notepod, Sun., Jan. 2, 2011

As the proposal unfolds itself, it appears that the Wallingford Incentive Housing Zone in several blocks near the railroad station would be a good thing. That’s not necessarily because state money could be found to support it (no guarantees there) but because it could incorporate housing above storefronts for families who typically work in police and fire department jobs and the like.

In Meriden, the city sends money when a mailbox is hit by a plough during a snow storm; In Cheshire, Wallingford and Southington, boxes damaged by plows are replaced. Either way is okay, but you’d think that some clever entrepreneur would come up with a plough-proof mailbox, one which would bounce back from a snowstorm clip.

New boilers in Meriden public buildings should help bring down costs of library and city hall, which is great. But how about the capacity to flick back and forth between natural gas and oil, depending on the price? That would seem to be a prudent step to take.

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