Most media is suggesting that Obama and Huckabee won something in Iowa. I’m not sure what was won, Iowa is perhaps the biggest waste of political energy since the Internet. I’d maybe go as far as saying the television, but really, when you look at modern presidential campaigns, the way in which to communicate to mass amounts of voters is all Internet these days. The real news coming out of Iowa was that the participation in the caucusses for the Democrats at least, was double what it was in 2004. That is the front page story coming out of Iowa because it might portend for the olden days of yore when everyone was an American when Republicans were promising a chicken in the pot and a car in every driveway while the nation was responding to a Democrat in every household. A roiling economy and disastrous foreign policy will do that to the electorate even these days.

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Now this is something we like to see from our political flunkies. Action words.

“I want this issue resolved once and for all, and as quickly as possible – as do the tens of thousands of commuters who get on and off the Merritt at Route 7 daily,” Rell said. “It is time for everyone to listen to one another, come up with a plan that makes sense for everyone and the environment, and get this project off the drawing board and moving toward reality.”

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Despite the conciliatory tones coming from Mayor Moccia and Board of Estimate Chair Fred Wilms, the 4.8% budget increase coupled with the close to $1 million over run in construction at Norwalk High School should be enough to give pause on what authenticity numbers prepared by the eerstwhile Stuart Opdahl contain. Teachers,  here in the comments, have been throwing red flags for months. The enrollment figures, the renovations, the overcrowding in some some schools, are all being mismanaged by Opdahl because he can’t seem to understand how to create accurate estimates.

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