I was hoping that somehow the elections had settled things for the majority of the political flunkies in town, but apparently not. Today’s Hour has a Robert Koch story about the outgoing council and contained this gem tucked at the end:

“Going forward, I hope that we have a united group of Democrats on the council that can pass constructive legislation and also be an effective opposition to the Moccia administration when the Moccia administration takes positions that the Democratic Party does not endorse,” Wells said. “Looking forward, we can look to constructive, united Democratic action.”

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It seems that there’s some hot hot hot issues in the comments, so reflect upon them here.

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Yesterday I attended a seminar on smart growth, touching on all of my favorite topics, economic development, roads and property tax reform. These were the topics that bubbled up from discussion panels more loftily declared to be about sustainable development for today’s and tomorrow’s citizens. What struck me most is that Connecticut is really choking under the property tax financing of infrastructure and education. All over the state.

State Senators Len Fasano-R and Jonathan Harris-D had some really interesting thing to say about the problems of regionalization in a state of 169 “fiefdoms.” The data, for the policy wonks amongst you, is in this CERC Executive summary here.

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