(Opinion) The knives come out at City Hall. Cannabis comes out in the classroom. Port-inflected bourbon emerges on the campaign trail.
And a new iteration of Marty Looney for State Senate potholders prove that not all traditions have withered on the norm-disruption vine.
What to make of all this?
Sending stoners to the hospital might not always be the answer. Settling scores by preventing smart, experienced people with some out-of-favor perspectives from volunteering to spend evenings in hours-long policy discussions convened by powerless government advisory boards might not be the answer. Shooting people to death over stupid arguments certainly isn’t the answer.
Click on the above video not to find answers, but to hear about the quest for them based on New Haven’s latest headlines, as processed through the weekly New Haven Independent opinionated v‑log news summary, direct from our assignment desk my compost heap.
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Kitchen politics: A 1990s tradition, upgraded for the modern age.
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I just moved and threw out my vintage Marty Looney potholder. It had done yeoman's duty in the kitchen and then retired to the barbecue in the garage where it gave me many additional years of service. It was so worn and burned I couldn't justify taking it along, although I hauled just about every other piece of detritus to the new abode. And as I was contemplating whether to take it, I was thinking "you don't see these kinds of campaign favors anymore" .....nice to see Marty's keeping it alive.