SOUTH-END NOTION: I attended a meeting of the Island’s joint taxpayers. (See related story this issue.) It tentatively focused on our increasingly chronic roadway and back bay nuisance flooding. That’s the traffic-boggling type of flooding, when we’re contending with expanses of thigh-deep water, but not deep enough to have those waters invite themselves into house and home. While nuisance flooding isn’t a home breaker, it has been known to readily and expensively consume parked cars.

The meeting’s speakers were Stockton’s Stewart Farrell and Kimberly McKenna.