At the Monday night BOE meeting, it was announced that Karen Lang the embattled Director of Curriculum is to resign at the end of the school year. Could it be related to the dismal state of instruction in our Norwalk schools? Maybe. Or maybe the weird relations that keep cropping up is just another ice berg that Corda is suddenly trying to avoid.

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This is major, major news. Governor Rell has announced that the DOT will be split into two departments, Highways and Mass Transportation, effective Jan 1, 2010. For “gubermint” this is bold, bold, bold. And much needed.

The reconfiguration will be effective Jan. 1, 2010, said Robert L. Genuario, secretary of the office of policy and management.

Rell made the announcement Wednesday morning, shortly before she was to unveil her midterm budget adjustments.

Genuario said “The old DOT has become too bureaucratic, too inefficient and too single-minded in its approach to problem solving.”

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The PR pros of all the campaigns will be in hyper spin mode today, but I think its more realistic to say that nothing much was decided. Part of the problem will be the horse race nature of the media coverage, which focuses on money and momentum rather than the real issues.

In Connecticut, the breakdown of who won what is nicely outlined in a state map here.

For super Tuesday, the 22 state results are here.

One way to look at the results is to look at population and the 2004 presidential election results.

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Maybe this is a sign that Norwalk’s community is starting to take charge of being part of the solution. While the usual suspects called for the usual platitudes following the murder of Taekwan Hunt, a small group of community leaders decided the usual was not enough.

At 7 p.m. tonight at the Norwalk YMCA, McQuaid and Romano will hold the first organizational meeting of Norwalk Neighbors Helping our Teens, a citywide group that they hope will be based in various parts of the city like neighborhood associations are, in an effort to meet families on their own turf.

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