I bet you’re thinking this is another post about the garbage contract –federal indictments coming-soon to a major theater near you– issues. Not quite. Today, in the aftermath of the SoNo Arts Celebration weekend, I focus on the actual task of picking up the trash. With a ringside seat on North Main, mojito in hand, I observed the delightfully entertaining process by which our valiant DPW workers, with a handy assist by car 36 of Norwalk’s finest, dealt with the trash after the festival closed.

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The Courant profiles the Working Families Party and attempts to explain the party’s impact on political races. I say attempts, because of grafs like this one:

Two years ago, when Democrat Chris Murphy unseated U.S. Rep. Nancy Johnson, R-5th District, he garnered an extra 5,794 votes on the Working Families line.

That was more than Shays’ 5,747 plurality.

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