Next week the Common Council will be voting on adopting the revised-revised ethics code. And below you will find the link to the latest draft amendment.

Ethics code (pdf)

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Bet you never thought I’d write that headline. But after reading the Hour article headlined, “Boozed up prom goers get graduation walk” I arrived at this startling conclusion. Why? Because I think that nanny statism has over reached, when it performs breathalyzers on kids near prom sites. Forget about looking at the pervasive use of Ritalin force fed to kids who naturally would prefer running around to sitting in a classroom all day filling our bubbles on endless tests. No, the anti-alcohol forces want to train your kids to accept a violation of the fourth amendment as being the norm. Let’s look at the incident:

Detective Michael Murray, of the Norwalk Police youth division, said he responded to a phone call that alcohol was present in a bus carrying students at the Stamford Sheraton Hotel.

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How did I miss this one? Apparently State Comptroller Nancy Wyman got legislators to vote on a bill adopting GAAP. GAAP, one of my pet accounting issues, stands for Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, and is a framework used to generate financial statements. The chief benefot of the state adopting GAAP is that it will findamentally change how revenue is reported. Currently, the state accounces revenue projections as actual revenue. This causes the legislature to spend money it thinks it has. The reality is that until revenue is collected, under GAAP, it is not used in financial statements.

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So far, the budget vote is planned for Friday. But by late Tuesday, 24 hours after the budget negotiators reached a tentative agreement, according to the Journal Inquirer, the votes might not be there. The reason? ECS funding, in particular to Fairfield County towns, and the opposition is from upstate legislators. From the Journal Inquirer:

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