Saturday Six Episode #428

Patrick’s Place Saturday Six Episode #428

1. Do you currently subscribe to any newspaper, local or national?
Yes, to the local paper, the Hartford Courant and the local free weekly newspaper.

2. How often do you actually read a newspaper, online or print?
Daily and I use Google News for the headlines from around the world. If an article looks interesting, then I go to the page.

3. Do you ever clip coupons from a newspaper to use in stores?
Nope.

4. Which section of the newspaper do you usually read before anything else?
My little touch of OCD, is that I read the paper in order.

5. Which section of the newspaper would you say is your favorite?
The local town news. After all I have to keep up with the local gossip.

6. Have you ever written a letter to the editor and, if so, was it published?
Yes, many times and I had a number of them published. The last one was in reply to an opinion piece about changing the state constitution to allow ballot questions and to allow recall of legislators. I am against it. We elect our legislators every 2 years and to allow a recall election on the odd year is stupid. And ballot questions are just special interest groups who are usually trying to take away rights. As I wrote in the letter,

Ballot initiatives are really referendums for special interest groups. Mr. ___________ writes about Maine's ballot initiatives. Maine's initiative for marriage equality brought in millions of dollars both for and against the initiative from out-of-state sources and one of the organizations that was against same-sex marriage still has not released their list of donors as required by law. In California, the king of ballot initiatives, in 2008 they had 14 ballot questions and one of them had been on the ballot eight times. Proposition 8 raised $24 million dollars from out-of-state special interest groups.

Here in Connecticut we already have the best recall system: We vote every two years.