City Commission Work Session (11/30/09)

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Piping up

Are there any landowners out there who will be affected by the proposed TransCanada pipeline?

Have you had offers for easements on your land yet?

I'm interested to hear from anyone who is put out by this. It's a perspective my two-part story, which began today, doesn't yet capture.

Read more here: Part One

The bird is the word

Just a quick plug for my fellow Catholics at Sacred Heart, who are having their annual Turkey Dinner tonight.

Stop by, get some great food and donate some money to a good cause. It's well worth the while.

Short and sweet, yes, but I am trying to update the blog more frequently with shorter posts, so this is what ya get.

Garden of Drinkin'

Anyone have any problems with the beer garden last week?

Did you notice a higher level of licentiousness or drunken revelry than normal?

I didn't see anything out of the ordinary.

A war of words

Among my many duties is creating the editorial page every day. It's not something I normally would promote here, but I have to drop a quick plug for tomorrow's page.

Thanks to The Hartford Courant, I've produced what I would consider the epitome of a perfect opinion page. It starts off with a column by Sen. Joe Lieberman explaining his stance on health care reform, the "public option" and the national debt.

That's followed by a nice cartoon that relates pretty closely to the subject matter ... and a pointed rejoinder penned by Bill Curry, a former aide to President Bill Clinton, who just lets Lieberman have it. Some choice selections:

• "Lieberman spouted lots of other twaddle, but space is limited. In a perfect world, we'd just call him up on the phone and explain matters. It would change nothing, as extreme cases of willful ignorance need stronger medicine than mere facts."
• "Cameras are like crystal meth for Joe and knowing they'd be there when he jumped ship hardly would deter him."
• "Ever since Democrats rebuffed his 2004 presidential candidacy over the slight matter of his rabid enthusiasm for invading Iraq, Lieberman has smoldered."

Ba-zing. I don't care what your political leanings are — that's just good, old-fashioned barb-writing there. Our Founding Fathers, some of whom wrote the nastiest and most excoriating things I ever have read, would be proud.

Anyhow, it's a good and thought-provoking page, in my opinion. Rarely do you get to show both sides of an issue that are so diametrically and directly opposed — and in such proximity, to boot.

So check it out.

City Commission Meeting (11/03/09)