Monday, July 4, 2011

The Editor's Notepod, Mon., July 4, 2011

An updated cyber bullying law which deals with some of the issues of electronic abuse of school mates has become law. It was clear that the bullying law would need revamping and fine-tuning when it was passed in Connecticut, and it is good to see that it has happened.

Some 24,000 people across the country became citizens in the week before Independence Day, including folks working with SCOW in Wallingford. It’s an irony that very often those who have studied about this nation’s history to pass their citizenship test are better informed than those who were born citizens. We hope it doesn’t have something to do with the fact that US history isn’t on the CAPT or the Mastery Test.

Harford’s Hispanic groups are rallying to try and impress on leaders what a good idea it would be to shape legislative districts – Senate District #1 is their immediate target – so that it would be likely to elect a Latino state senator. Were districts shaped ever to make election of African-American lawmakers likely?

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