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Monday, July 21, 2003

A decision by the Connecticut Department of Public Health to expand the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation's water authority is a bad deal for the state, The Norwich Bulletin says in an editorial.

There's no reason to suggest the tribe doesn't have the capability to manage the water, the paper says. But its authority should apply to the reservation and no more, the paper says.

"[S]hould a problem -- say, a water shortage -- develop, it's natural the tribe would likely look after its own interests first," the paper says. If that were to happen, no town would have any recourse against the Mashantuckets because of the tribe's federal sovereignty."

State attorney general Richard Blumenthal is supporting three towns who have filed suit to reverse the decision.

Get the Story:
Editorial: Blumenthal right to back towns in water dispute (The Norwich Bulletin 7/21)

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