From the Courant:

“If you want people to participate, you can’t bar the door and tell them to go away when they show up,” said Sen. Gayle Slossberg, D-Milford, co-chairman of the legislature’s Elections Committee.

The bill under consideration would allow voters to visit the Registrars of Voters offices to register on Election Day, or else go to the polls to vote after showing proper identification. The same legislation limits use of the presidential ballots to recent Connecticut residents who were unable to register in time to vote for president.

Presidential ballots allow unregistered voters to vote in presidential elections.

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Was it just a few nights ago that the debate on the city budget swirled around the issue of infrastructure and flooding? Mother nature sure provided irrefutable evidence that the many decisions to ignore infrastructure comes at great expense. Sure, Norwalk was not alone in flood problems, all through the state, low lying areas near rivers and lakes experienced floods, just like Norwalk, er wait. The difference in Norwalk flooding stems from storm water drainage and sewer system backups. In other words, a solvable problem. And Common Council Member Bill Krummel-D summarized in an op-ed piece, City’s infrastructure needs maintenance, that appeared in The Hour:

Storm drains, catch basins, sewers, pipes — these are only a few of the elements of what is called the infrastructure. The infrastructure: A web of pipes, drains, mains, laterals, cables, roads, power and telephone lines, sewage treatment, garbage and trash removal and processing, and all the services and operations required to maintain, improve, build and rebuild, above and below ground. And all the numbers; feet of this and miles of that, make for a mind numbing description of the web. This is the web that supports our “Quality of Life” and our most important asset — our homes.

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