Now that the BOE has cut the revenue generating news stand, they are eyeing other cuts to the budget. The Advocate reports:

Parents, teachers and administrators from West Rocks Middle School crowded into last night’s school board meeting to decry staff reductions included in cuts to the district’s proposed budget.

The school board is trimming $1.4 million from its budget request to meet the $148.2 million the Board of Estimate and Taxation approved last month for 2008-2009. The school board was expected to vote on the budget reconciliation after deadline.

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Whilst the Common Council was busy hearing about the afflicted quality of life living next to industrial neighborhoods, I was traveling north to Boston. In the old days, along the Eisenhower Interstate, big signs would welcome you to the next state, often the only discernible way to figure you crossed state lines. Yesterday I didn’t need the sign, the road noise, rattle and jolts of driving through Connecticut immediately stopped, and smooth pothole and rut free lanes of highway beckoned. Connecticut is such a backwater of transportation infrastructure. The high tech companies that line I-495 all have easy access to the commuter rail that carries people from and to Boston. All that talk about “taxachusetts”, and it turns out the we in Connecticut pay more and get less.

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