Not only were you all in agreement that it was too easy you were all right, the last Secret Norwalk photo was on the tracks off Commerce street. So a reader submitted this one.

Once more you must guess specifically where this is and what it is a picture of.

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Okay gingerbread man started all of you off on the right locations on the previous photo since it was the walkway in front of the Imax, or alternatively the walkway in front of the boat to sheffield island.

Today’s photo is where?

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As I have long suspected, a new study has come out that the LA Times is reporting on. Now wait for it, the study says that babies who watch television turn out to have less of a vocabulary that ones who don’t. Mmmm, donuts. Of course the baby Einstein, DVD player in the car parenting set will not want to read about this. They forget that prisons put televisions in the common areas to keep the inmates, er, calm. In a television stupor more accurately. And so legions of babies fixate on dancing carrots and can’t express themselves with words. Or so the LA Times reports:

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The prevailing economic philosophy when it comes to awarding municipal contracts is that the lowest price serves Norwalk residents best. On the surface, paying the least amount for services in a competitive bidding process seems like a good idea. Competition theoretically does the job of negotiating a fair price. In practice though, the system of lowest bid wins the contract has led to contractors gaming the system with low ball bids completed to standards that will result in more money being paid to fix the things the contractor skimped on in performing the work.

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Even in the face of life or death issues, Hartford won’t give up it’s addiction to pork. Yesterday Governor Rell and House Speaker Amann sparred over the governor’s proposal to put $100 million into bridge repair. Amann countered with the oh yeah, whaddabout our fix-it first proposal. They coulda been vaudeville performers. Brian Lockhart reports:

“We ignore the fundamentals of our transportation system, roads and bridges at our own peril,” Amann, D-Milford, said at a news conference at the Capitol.

And the skit is on.

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