Editorial: For whom the road tolls
Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:00
Desperately searching for another way to wring money out of cash-strapped Connecticut residents, some lawmakers and candidates have suggested reinstating tolls on interstates to boost state revenue.
The tolls were removed after a 1983 crash in Stratford, in which seven people died when a truck plowed into the toll plaza. Two years later, an effort to eliminate the booths succeeded.Warrior Words: The hodgepodge
Written by Andrew Nachemson
Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:00
I was having trouble thinking of an article topic for this week, so I tried reaching out to my friends and family for help. My mom wanted me to write about how I love books and title it Bookworm (she’s quite clever) but my friends came up with more interesting ideas.
Most of them just immediately suggested that I write my entire article about them, but I felt inclined to pass on those proposals. However, once they got past the initial excitement of the possibility of having an entire 600-word document dedicated to them, the better thoughts started flowing.The Democratic View: When being a neighbor isn't good enough
Written by Carol Ball
Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:00
Usually she’s the typical woman seen around town — devoted to her children and family, an energetic volunteer, making Wilton an even nicer place than it is already. She’ll watch your kids in a pinch, bake a batch of cookies to cheer up a friend, or spend countless hours coordinating a signature school event.
Recently, though, she’s not quite herself, and in an unguarded moment she spills the beans. Her family is just hanging on, be it extended unemployment or a marriage dissolving, or illness. In a town where the image you project may be a carefully constructed cover for the reality, life is fraying at the edges, stress is wearing her down and she’s worried, mostly about the health of her family.Consumer chief offers tips on choosing limos wisely during prom season
Friday, 12 March 2010 01:00
With the annual spring surge of weddings, proms and graduations and other formal events that may call for a limousine, the state Department of Consumer Protection is offering tips to ensure safe and fair service.
First, determine the type of limousine you need and for how many hours. Visit Web sites of limousine services to see what they offer in the way of vehicles and packages. Check with friends and family to learn which limousine services they have used in the past year or two, and whether these companies were reliable.
Warrior Words: New shoes
Written by Ally Bruschi
Thursday, 11 March 2010 01:00
I needed change, I needed something to do in the afternoons, and I needed money. So I have filled the days of my senior year since field hockey ended in November with some activities that were outside of my comfort zone.
My first new experience took place on the stage. Since freshman year, I have always been a polite member of the audience, laughing and clapping at the appropriate times. I had never, however, been among the ones on stage, crossing my fingers and silently hoping that the laughs and applause would come.Editorial: Everybody stops
Thursday, 11 March 2010 01:00
An editorial like this usually runs in September, but since John Hetherington has raised the issue in the state legislature, now is a good time to go over school bus safety.
Mr. Hetherington, who represents Wilton as well as neighboring New Canaan, has introduced a bill that would allow pictures taken by cameras mounted externally on school buses to be used in prosecuting drivers who pass a stopped school bus that has its red signals flashing. This would have little effect in Wilton, at least at present, where school buses do not have externally mounted cameras. And it doesn’t appear equipping the buses with them is on anyone’s radar.Editorial: Hold the cannons
Thursday, 11 March 2010 01:00
As we spring, march, or leap ahead one hour into daylight-saving time this weekend, you may well ask whose bright idea was this anyway?
Benjamin Franklin is often credited with coming up with the idea of what we now call daylight-saving time. It is true that, as an American delegate in Paris in 1784, Mr. Franklin published an essay titled “An Economical Project,” in which he made the simple argument that natural light is cheaper than artificial light.
A View from Glen Hill: 'Proud to be Americans'
Written by Stephen Hudspeth
Thursday, 11 March 2010 01:00
One of my earliest clear memories as a child is of being around the dinner table with aunts and uncles at an extended-family gathering. The discussion was filled with much joy and laughter until the subject turned to “the War.” The war these early 20th-Century émigrés from Britain to America were talking about in hushed tones was World War I.
My mother’s uncles spoke of comrades they had lost to “gassing,” a term I later asked my parents about only to get a sanitized, but still very scary, explanation. Much later, I learned that my father had been in an Army training camp in Georgia — and not much older than those youth I saw singing and performing so well in our high school’s Senior Show last month — when it ended “over there.”
Commentary: Get counted! Return your census survey
Written by Jim Himes
Thursday, 11 March 2010 01:00
This week, families across Connecticut will receive in the mail a short, 10-question form from the 2010 Census. I encourage everyone to complete their survey and return it promptly.
This survey helps provide a complete and accurate count of the population in the United States. The sooner you fill out your form, the better — the more forms mailed in, the fewer door-to-door canvassers the government needs to hire to complete the census. Returning forms promptly saves the government money and helps ensure our cities and towns get the federal investment they deserve.Business Talk with Brad Scheller: Big Hairy Audacious Goals
Written by Brad Scheller
Thursday, 11 March 2010 01:00
Back in the spring of 1961, President John F. Kennedy called on all Americans to commit our talents and resources to something never before done: to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth by the end of the decade. While scientists and technologists hadn’t exactly worked out the details (in fact some experts were pessimistically assigning it a 50/50 chance at best), we nonetheless took on the challenge and became riveted and exhilarated by the prospect of landing a man on the moon.
As goals go, this was one Big Hairy Audacious Goal and a great example of a BHAG (pronounced BEE-hag), a term coined in 1994 by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in their classic business book, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.Page 1 of 3
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