Changes: Soto to Education. Tickey to Himes.

Year-end changes in the Capitol village. Governor Ned Lamont’s legislative liaison, popular former state legislator Chris Soto, will take up a post at the education department.

Susan Bysiewicz aide Jimmy Tickey will depart the lieutenant governor’s office to become district director for U.S. Representative Jim Himes. With the Fairfield County Democrat at the center of the House’s impeachment inquiry, it should be a time like no other to work for him.