Friday, April 15, 2011

The Editor's Notepod, Fri., Apr. 15, 2011

Federal Dept. of Justice now looking into the Meriden Police Department. We hope they are thorough and speedy and effective and that this is laid open fully and fully cleared up.

MidState is explaining how it reacts in the data loss case. It’s still rather hard to understand why details of how and why the identity download of a lot of patients at the Meriden hospital were taken by an employee of the parent company and how that employee was disciplined – if indeed he or she was disciplined.

Cheshire’s teachers accepted a plan modifying their contract by splitting the annual percentage wage increase in half, spreading it over two years. Is this a model which can be followed by other unions?

Abandoning the bill which would have included the amount saved by coupons in the sales tax is a bad decision by the Connecticut legislature. Yes, lots and lots of folks enjoy using them and saving a few bucks with them, but the collective loss – which would have been affected only by non-food items anyway – makes a difference in state revenue stream.

What a society we live in where we need to debate how to require students in Southington high school to carry their ID cards – around their necks on a lanyard or merely among their other books and papers.

It’s a shame to close the salmon fish hatchery in Berlin, part of the governor’s savings plan. The choice appears to have more to do with which fish are popular with sport fishermen rather than which is better for the state’s ecology.

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