Tuesday, December 27, 2011

The Editor's Notepod, Tues., Dec. 27, 2011

Meriden’s planners are seriously considering a return to a two-way traffic pattern downtown and making other changes. It will be interesting to see how this ultimately affects the commercial area.

Connecticut could use some greater transparency in revealing costs of medical procedures to consumers. Unfortunately, insured persons probably don’t need to know while uninsured persons generally find medical bills astronomically out of reach, so in the end is there really any point in knowing that an appendectomy actually costs $6,000 or whatever?

Good luck to Lyman Hall and Sheehan High School bands, still competing for a grant from Pepsi. We hope Wallingford schools manage to win.

Connecticut has failed to set aside funds to do maintenance on state-maintained bridges, despite the accident in 1993 which caused a portion of an I-95 span to collapse in Mianus. So, the state is working on the problem.

Congratulations to Wallingford’s Recycling Committee which has received the GreenCircle Award from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection along with four other local businesses or individuals. This is a good path to follow.

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