The Census Bureau recently released population estimates for Fairfield County and claimed that the population has declined since 2005. Apparently Census bureau estimators don’t travel much by car. The basics, according to the Connecticut Post, in 2005 Fairfield County’s population clocked in at 901,086 and they are now saying that 2006 is 900,440. The 1k loss doesn’t affect our standing as the most populous county in Connecticut. But that is likely because Hartford and New Haven counties also saw slipping numbers.

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It’s small, it’s under a bridge and is my suggestion for where all the taxing district flunkies can retire. Despite a promised amicable solution, the charge by the hour lawyer for the first taxing district says, “let’s rack up some more fees,” or something like that. Amazingly, most people who never pass the bar exam work mighty hard at avoiding court. But somehow people who pass the exam think that all disputes need to be settled in court, because, well, I guess they just can’t trust their own brains to seek out resolutions to disputes. And so today’s Hour regales us with the latest episode in the running saga of what happens when old lawyers with too much time on their hands revisit old laws from 1913 and decide to parse language instead of playing bridge. Well, actually Fulton is playing with a bridge, sort of.

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