The Courant is reporting that State Attorney General Dick Blumenthal is asking state regulators to approve the Connecticut Light & Power’s proposal to make multimillion-dollar upgrades in eight communities with underground electrical systems. Towns that were identified include; New Britain, Bristol, Greenwich, Norwalk, New Canaan, Westport, Naugatuck and Willimantic.

“This threat to electric service and public safety is unconscionable and unacceptable,” Blumenthal said in a statement. “CL&P’s unreliable underground electric system is a ticking time bomb that has endangered lives, and repeatedly compromised vital electric service to thousands of customers.”

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While the Courant headlines the story as Colebrook Fire Chief Arrested In Sex Sting, the interior states:

According to spokesman Sgt. Daniel Devine, Boutin was arrested around 11:40 a.m. when he showed up at the restaurant to meet the fictitious boy. Police said Boutin works as a permit inspector for the state Department of Transportation and was driving an agency vehicle when he arrived at the meeting site.

Ah, that would maybe explain the I-84 fiasco, where somehow the DOT failed to inspect the shoddy work performed. And what was this guy doing at 11:40 am instead of inspecting DOT stuff?

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Unlike Congress, where C-SPAN tightly focuses its television eye on the congresscritters that speak to mostly empty seats, the seats in the Common Council chambers were filled last night. While the public could speak to the Common Council on any topic, the crowd distinctly fell into one of two camps, camp flood and camp-education administration- self-preservationists. So that’s what a $246,367,103 operating budget comes down to. But actually, the allocation of the budget is really up to the Board of Estimate and Taxation.

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