Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The Editor's Notepod, Tues., Apr. 26, 2011

Gas prices are going up, and the examples are given for Meriden. For some reason, Meriden gas prices are typically below those in much of the rest of the state, too. There’s no solution but to drive less.

The controversy in Connecticut about “Blast” should not be about a specific drink but about a consumer-driven system in which the essential goal is to create products for which there is no need and then to convince consumers that they must buy them. Talk philosophy!

Discussion over the possibility of charging an admission for Meriden’s Daffodil Festival would best be held after this year’s event – if ever – and would require some serious contemplation of the purpose of the event and the consequences of various possible charges.

The risk in the Connecticut higher education consolidation bill – undertaken mainly out of spite over the foolishness of several overpaid administrators and with a savings of a piddling $4 million of so – is that the state universities and the community colleges will lose their individualities in a merged mélange where everyone has to do everything the same way.

We hate to see Southington’s Barnes Museum auctioning items to help finance repairs to a leaky roof. Isn’t there some better way to raise the necessary cash?

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