Were it not for the District B Democrats, I would be posting more about scooters. As it is, they fulfill a necessary cog in the wheel of commenting on the news. They are like Congress is to the Daily Show. Tuesday, the Hour reported:

Ward B Democrats back off on Angels endorsement

Ward B Democrats reconsidered Monday night their endorsement of bringing the Guardian Angels to Norwalk, and instead directed the local point person for the effort to look at alternatives.

Tuesday night’s BOE meeting was not without the usual fireworks, this time centering on Corda’s relationship with Magdalia Rivas and his decision to hire Karen Lang to sit on principal reviews. Rivas apaprently has issues with Corda’s unilateral move. Rivas was also upset becuase Corda, via email, informed her that her request for some report was inappropriate.

Bobby Burgess sent an emissary to read a letter to the BOE, blasting the District D Democrats and Greg Burnett for alledging that Rivas is “friends with Jack Daniels” and referenced that her slurred speech was actually due to a topical tooth medication.

The Haviland Street parking garage repair ushers in a construction discount at the Maritime Garage. Nights after 5 PM are now a flat fee of $1. Meanwhile the construction work on the Haviland Street garage deck begins Monday morning. On Street parking shouldn’t be affected except for the increased use. Handicap spaces from the Haviland lot will be moved to reserved spaces in two privately operated lots on Washington Street, one is next to Beadworks and the other is between Gallerie SoNo and SoNo Caffeine.

That contractor working on the Haviland deck has 120 days to complete the work or face penalties.

Maureen Dowd writes a mean upper middle-brow psychological critique.

Now John McCain is pea-green with envy… The Arizona senator who built his reputation on being a brave proponent of big solutions is running a schoolyard campaign about tire gauges and Paris Hilton, childishly accusing his opponent of being too serious, too popular and not patriotic enough.

Even his own mother, the magical 96-year-old Roberta McCain, let slip that she thought the Paris Hilton-Britney Spears ad was “kinda stupid.”

And while you can be forgiven for taking Paris Hilton lightly, you’re taking your chances if you irritate her mom. Something like this could happen:

“Thanks for the endorsement, white haired dude…
I’ll see you at the debates, bitches.”

Blacklash, much?

I’ve gathered all the trash posts into this handy list o links. Just to make it easier to find them all as various people piece together the story. Start at the bottom and work your way up.

http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/08/05/holy-confidential-batman-morris-blasted-for-meddling/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/08/01/norwalk-dems-need-to-look-at-the-real-trash/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/08/01/brown-reveals-morris-gave-her-crra-letter/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/07/31/brown-keeps-digging-a-hole/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/07/29/lionel-hutz-strikes-again-political-silly-season-arrives/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/07/25/norwalk-rtc-goes-after-brown/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/07/22/common-council-meeting-of-july-22nd/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/07/22/lawsuits-and-prayer-vigils/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/07/21/council-now-has-to-vote-tommorrow/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/07/18/transfer-station-hearing-thoughts/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/07/17/yet-another-public-hearing-on-a-garbage-contract/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/06/24/poop-happens-ii-and-more-on-garbage/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/06/23/the-truth-about-trash-and-nimbys/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/06/19/much-odor-about-trash/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/06/11/common-council-meeting-of-june-10th/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/06/10/biggest-whopper-of-the-year/
http://www.yourct.com/new/2008/06/04/trash-is-in-the-news/

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.

For those interested the link is here.

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.

That was more than Shays’ 5,747 plurality.