You have to wonder if there’s anyone other than the few, the bamboozled, the Norwalk Democratic party who think Bruce Morris does anything worthwhile. The Reverend Morris even has a difficult time getting the progressive People of Faith organization to give him what should amount to a no-brianer score, if ahem, Morris were actually progressive. But since Morris doesn’t believe that women go to the urologist, it should not be a big shocker, that on Morris’ self described “big issue” affordable housing, he was a no show. Brian Lockhart apparently got the spin back from Morris to explain away his lackluster score.

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after being rained out last month, tomorrow’s Wall Street festival is a nice start to the street to the all star street festival weekend Norwalk is having. In its second year;

About 70 businesses will participate in the festival, designed to draw attention to redevelopment efforts for the historic heart of Norwalk and attractions already there.

The event - originally scheduled for last month but postponed because of weather -is organized by the Silk Touch, a Main Street shop owned by Danna DiElsi.

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Norwalk High’s new science wing will not have bathrooms. Someone made a decision in 2005 to removed the bathrooms from the $39 million dollar construction project because of cost. Now they can’t be put back because of cost. Yet, so they say. Well, I say this is yet another glaring example of Stuart Opdahl mismanaging a construction project, one that has costs over runs conveniently taken out of the Jefferson school budget. You know Jefferson school where the recent CMT scores are:

In reading, Norwalk fifth graders fell short of the state average 73.4 proficiency with 63.5 proficiency. Columbus and Wolfpit elementary schools came closest to the average, both scoring more than 70 percent.

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