Tuesday, March 15, 2011

The Editor's Notepod, Tues., Mar. 15, 2011

Stonegate residents in Southington are upset about yet another sewage eruption into their homes. Perhaps the council’s action will produce results, but let’s stop pussyfooting around about this problem and find out the cause and its remedy.

The driver of that bus which crashed in NY on the way back from a gambling expedition to Connecticut may have been a criminal in many ways, but the relevant ways involve several un-settled and serious violations of motor vehicle laws in NY – plus a certain casual attitude toward the la in general. It is motor vehicular mayhem, not manslaughter which is dangerous to the driving public.

A rupture in a steam tube shut down the Bristol trash to energy plant Monday, trapping workers and causing a shut-down. Thank goodness it wasn’t worse and that no one was seriously hurt, but of course the event suggests parallels with those stressed nuclear reactors in Japan – no matter how different the cause.

Again, the legislature is attempting to deal with bullying by children, especially cyber bullying. We hope they can find a good plan for dealing with this issue, as stories from Meriden and Wallingford demonstrate the complexities of bullying crimes.

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