Remember those posts about holes in the old Police Station, Well, yes indeedy they are there. Windows are open too. Seems like we could do a better job securing a building.

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Do Connecticut State Reps go to High Schools to give presentations on how bills become laws because ….

NORWALK, Ohio (AP) — A state legislator surprised a high school class when the computer he was using projected a photo of a nude woman during a lecture on how a bill becomes a law.

State Rep. Matthew Barrett was giving a civics lesson Tuesday when he inserted a data memory stick into the school computer and the projected image of a topless woman appeared instead of the graphics presentation he had downloaded.

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Yipes, 1977 seems so far away and yet the Punk movement today is as fresh as ever. Quite the paradox to be reading the latest issue of SPIN doing the old historical evolution of the genre. Then again better to be listening to the songs, and here SPIN did a smart thing, they partnered with the appropriately named slacker, to offer editor picked iconic picks of punk. Slacker is a free web radio, and while I’ve been partial to Pandora, Slacker is slicker. They are pushing the technology to travel with you instead of just hoping you listen on your computer.

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The story starts innocently enough, a campaign worker for the Moccia campaign sends out an email appeal for advertisers for a Moccia fundraiser. The email landed in the email box if Democratic Town chair Galen Wells, who promptly fired off an email to the campaign volunteer and Art Scialabba who is the Moccia campaign manager replied.

Galen wrote:

Are you sending this out to a Chamber list? If so, please
forward it to me so that I can use it for the Dems. The Chamber tries to
deal evenhandedly with political campaigns.

Art replies:

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The list of allegations filed CACF by Mary Brown were addressed in a peer review by the Northeast Institute for Quality Community Action. “[the] NIQCA Peer Review Team could not find any substantive documentation of illegality or wrongdoing in the allegations submitted to Commissioner Starkowski,” concluded the report, with a point by point dissection.

#1. Failure to conduct agency business under the existing by-laws.
Such a broad and sweeping allegation lacking specific references made it difficult to evaluate. … the Board has drafted a new set of Bylaws for adoption which reduces the size of the Board, clarifies responsibilities and procedures for the recruitment and election of new members and specifies consistent tripartite Board composition. Beyond this matter the Team found nothing to support the allegation.

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Last night the Republicans invited one and all to their grand opening of the party head quarters for the 2008 campaign. Special guest Lt. Governor Michael Fedele was eagerly anticipated by the crowd of about 50. State Rp. Larry Cafero, House Minority Leader of the “fightn’ 44″ introduced the Lt. Governor, after being introduced by Republican Town Committee Chair Jeffrey Konspore.

“There is a spirit in the party and in the town committee because we believe again because of that man over there,” he said pointing to Mayor Moccia.

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