Cafeinated Geek Girl (CGG) posts the update on Connecticut Local Politics announcing the vote tally on SB 1343 An Act Concerning Compassionate Care for Victims of Sexual Assault What is that Bruce Morris listed there under the Nays? From her post:

List of Committee Members who voted Yea:

• Sen. Jonathan Harris, Co-Chair
• Rep. Peter Vilano, Co-Chair
• Rep. Catherine Abercrombie, Vice Chair
• Rep. Lile Gibbons, Ranking Member
• Rep. Jason Bartlett (one of 1343’s co-sponsors)
• Rep. Larry Butler
• Rep. Michael Caron
• Rep. Clark Chapin
• Rep. Karen Jarmoc
• Rep. Linda Orange

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This should be good news for the New Haven line commuters. According to the Courant:

Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced today that Metro-North is adding five new morning peak trains, adding 600 seats for those commuting between New Haven and Grand Central and 950 seats for intrastate customers.

The additional Metro-North trains will save over 2,400 customers up to 14 minutes of travel time, Rell projected.

New Metro-North timetables will be available Monday at Grand Central and outlying stations.

Rell today also announced enhancements to Shore Line East peak-hour service, including new morning and evening Stamford connections with Grand Central Terminal trains.

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Part of the costs of healthcare includes drug prices. You would think with all the competition in pharmacy availability that the pricing would be fairly close for most drugs. That turns out out be not the case.
Boingboing posted on this today, and I link here to the original post they reference:

So Wolf began snooping around and found that two chains, Costco and Sam’s Club, sold generics at prices far, far below the other chains. Even once you factor in the cost of buying a membership at Costco and Sam’s Club, the price differences were astounding. Here are the prices he found at Houston stores for 90 tablets of generic Prozac:

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State Rep Kevin DelGobbo R-Naugatuck said it best, “This package instead of driving us to consensus, sends the signal we don’t know where we’re going.” He was speaking about the decision to send 4 bills out of the Energy and Technology Committee instead of figuring out what to do about fixing the problems with the deregulation of Energy in Connecticut.

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Legislators are backing off the total elimination of robo-calls. Somehow they are forgetting that people just don’t want to the phone to ring in the first place. They are also forgetting that people who use cell phones pay for those incoming calls. There’s a cost and inconvenience factor involved. But here’s the tweaks that they are pursuing, from the Norwalk Advocate:

The General Law Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved legislation that would require that any robotic phone message, political or commercial, be preceded by a live spokesperson.

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Today’s Hour reports that Laurel Lindstrom is running for a district C Common Council seat. Some anonymous poster revealed that a few weeks ago here, suggesting that Alex Knopp, rumored mayoral candidate for the Democrats, is against it. I’ll go out on a limb here and say that this is either a sign that there’s some significant Democratic sentiment that Knopp running would be a disaster, and that his dictatorial decree of who he wants running is being ignored for good reason, or that Knopp is not running.

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