The lines are being drawn for this fall’s mayoral campaign in Wallingford, with Vincent Testa announcing his intention of a second try against William Dickinson. It’s always an interesting process.
Connecticut’s two remaining active nuclear generators are at Millstone Point, while shut down generators remain there and in Haddam Neck. No more are likely, and we feel those remaining two are safe, but it always seems to tempt fate to suggest that a disaster such as is presently occurring in Japan “couldn’t happen here.”
Lubbie Harper Jr., Gov. Malloy’s first appointee to the Connecticut Supreme Court (taking Commissioner of Children and Families Joette Katz’ seat), will serve only two years due to the mandatory age 70 retirement rule, but several lawmakers voted against confirmation anyway, apparently because he was filling in on the court when it decided in favor of same-sex marriage in 2008. There’s nothing like lawmakers who focus on a single decision by a judge to give thumbs up or down.
Southington’s Planning and Zoning Commission has tossed a spanner into the works by including restrictions on so many town departments which may not move to a refurbished North Center School that the project may be scuttled. That would be a shame, really, and can that really be the intention of PZC members?
It would be a good thing for Connecticut to raise the age at which kids can drop out of school from age 16 to age 18, at least in comparison to allowing them to quit at age 17, as is effectuated by a law on the books scheduled to take effect this year. There is a gap in state laws for kids between 16 and 18 when it comes to where they ought to be and what they must do, and, other things being equal (such as the cost of this law), this proposal could help.
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