The Movie. At least the trailer. From the director who brought us Wordplay, the smart film about people who live to solve crossword puzzles, we get a big budget feature on economics.
Most of the time we point fingers at the poltical flunkies of all flavors who have spent our way into a $9.5 trillion dollar deficit. But it starts with us. Every time we buy something manufactured in China, or India or where ever, we are in fact contributing to the national deficit. How we got there, and that shopping cart of made elsewhere consumables is just as much a contributing factor is answered in the movie.
Today the Mayor held a press conference to announce that at long last, the Solid Waste disposal contract was signed with City Carting. Technically, the Mayor did it yesterday, but today he announced it. So no staged ceremonially signing. Instead, the Mayor was armed with documents and ain’t-got-no-statisfaction with State Rep. Bruce Morris. And Amanda Brown too.
“As you know we had a long process to determine who would handled our trash over the next five years,” explained Mayor Richard Moccia. Moccia explained that the contract was signed after a thorough review by Holland and Knight, the law firm hired by the Common Council.
The Norwalk RTC has posted the documents obtained as part of the FOIA request of Amanda Brown. They are interesting is that the chain of headers is worth looking into. That would be geek-speak for looking at who sent what to whom. But that will come later as it will take time to review and assess. But I am somewhat disturbed after the first reading that in typical Norwalk fashion, the thrust of investigation has been brought down to the local level as if the rule of law somehow doesn’t apply in Norwalk.
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.
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.
Before I launch into the SoNo Arts festival line up today, I should mention the Norwalk Arts Commission’s Concerts in Cranbury Park Series opens today with the Norwalk Symphony Flute Quartet playing today at 2 PM at the Carriage House. That’s a free concert that will be happening every Sunday for the month of August. Check out the calendar here.
2008 SoNo Arts Celebration Schedule of Performers Sunday, August 3rd
Due to Saturday rain, there will be additional artists performing on Sunday!
Please check the Saturday list of Performing Artists. More details when the schedule is finalized.
At least not tonight. Which is to say that I don’t agree with him all the time, but find him to be a thoughtful guy and makes some perfectly valid observations and expresses some perfectly reasonable opinions. He’s a conservative I can imagine getting along with even if we disagreed about the correct interpretation of current events. Or, whatever.
You can catch his pretty-good interview with David Broder on Book TV Sunday, August 3, at 6:00 PM; Sunday, August 3, at 9:00 PM; and Sunday, August 10, at 12:00 PM.
Clearly there is no more important news in Connecticut than this.
The idea is to cut down on the half-eaten rolls, uneaten desserts, un-drunk sodas and other goodies students piled on their trays in the buffet line and then realize they are too full to eat.
Besides eliminating wasted food, UConn predicts trayless dining will have the side benefit of keeping a lid on food costs and reducing the amount of water used to wash the trays.
