The presidential primary is a long way away, yet here is the latest Quinnipiac poll, which according to the Courant places Dodd a distanced fourth in a name recognition survey. The Courant reports:

A Quinnipiac University poll of 1,087 state voters, conducted Feb. 9 to 12, placed Dodd fourth among White House contenders, behind New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, at 33 percent; Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, at 21 percent and former Vice President Al Gore at 9 percent.

Gore has not said he’s running. Dodd has.

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Here’s another glaring example of why the car tax is such a bad tax. Unlike houses, cars tend to move along with the people that own them to other cities, often in other states. Stamford recently hired a collection agency to to collect outstanding taxes on cars from 1992 to 2003. The outstanding tax is about $6 million. The state law says a municipality has up to 15 years to collect, and does not need to prove that a bill was received by the taxpayer. So some former Stamford residents are shocked to find outstanding bills plus interest. A short sampling from some message boards:

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Stratford and Bridgeport have had an uneasy time over the existence of the Sikorsky airport. And that relationship goes back a long time, the very first airshow was held here in 1911. The latest battle is to turn the city owned airport into a state owned one. The city of Bridgeport has plans to sell the 800-acre site to the state after 60 years of city ownership.

From the Connecticut Post

“I think the best government agency to run an airport would be the state, not a municipality,” Ricci said last week, pointing to urgent infrastructure needs, including the demolition of an aging airport building that the city simply cannot afford.

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