(Opinion) Don’t be surprised if instead of hearing “10-4” or “Roger that” when you eavesdrop on the fire emergency dispatch line, you hear “99” instead. That’s because newly sworn-in Fire Chief Daniel Coughlin is looking to bring back some former ways of doing business, beg inning with that code for “A-OK.” Meanwhile, the city’s anti-blight agency is looking to enforce its own codes on the notorious Ocean Management, by levying a $13,000 fine on the company for failing to fix up the old Walter Camp House on Chapel Street — six years after it was ravaged by fire. Instead of replying “99,” instead of complying with the law, instead of fixing up its neighborhood-wrecking properties, the company is choosing to spend money fighting the fine in court. The city’s tax office continues to use a broken code to decide how much to tax out-of-town investors and speculators — shoving millions of dollars of appraised value onto the shoulders of already burdened local taxpayers. The state is finally, decades after the invention of the internet, moving closer to updating its code for publishing legal notices in a way that benefits the public rather than rapacious legacy print publishers. And federal immigration authorities again made a mockery of their own stated code of going after only the “worst of the worst” violent criminals when they arrested and moved to deport an SCSU student from Ecuador. Those are among the topics covered in the latest opinionated vlog news summary from the Independent assignment desk — er, compost heap. Click on the above video to check it out. Viewer beware: As always, the opinions expressed in these articles/videos are solely those of the author/bloviator. They do not necessarily reflect the views of anyone else associated with the New Haven Independent; or with any other worthwhile legal entities such as the Society for the Preservation of the Oxford Comma (SPOC), the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC), the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation (SPEC), or the St. Petersburg Yacht Club ( SPYC), or the spy agency coalition known as “SIGINT Seniors.” Credit: Paul Bass Photo The post 99, Good Buddy appeared first on New Haven Independent. ...read more read less