Falls Village
FALLS VILLAGE — Four hours before facing a large crowd at the Falls Village Emergency Services Center, state Rep. Maria Horn (D-64) had a more congenial task: talking to teacher Amy Lake’s Social Studies class about a letter they wrote urging the banning of single-use plastic bags in Connecticut.
Horn congratulated the students for their activism.
“It really matters,” she said. “Writing letters has an impact.”
She said politics, especially at the national level, has “a bad name.”
But politics “should mean...