By CHRIS POWELL According to state Sen. Jan Hochadel, D-Meriden, Connecticut shouldn’t be afraid of taxing the wealthy more. Hartford hints at best way to solve housing shortage More ‘public benefits’ bunk; and the big liability machine A big payday for child neglect? And not all cruelty is Trump’s In a newspaper essay last week Hochadel citedContinue reading “Don’t ask government employees if state should raise taxes”
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Hartford hints at best way to solve housing shortage
By CHRIS POWELL State government and Hartford city government have figured out the easiest way to solve Connecticut’s desperate shortage of inexpensive housing. They just haven’t quite realized that they have figured it out. More ‘public benefits’ bunk; and the big liability machine A big payday for child neglect? And not all cruelty is Trump’sContinue reading “Hartford hints at best way to solve housing shortage”
More ‘public benefits’ bunk; and the big liability machine
By CHRIS POWELL Hiding the costs of government social welfare programs in customer electric bills — the long-running scandal of Connecticut’s “public benefits” charges — is bad enough. But the other day Marc E. Fitch of the Yankee Institute’s Connecticut Inside Investigator disclosed that one “public benefits” charge has allowed the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to payContinue reading “More ‘public benefits’ bunk; and the big liability machine”
A big payday for child neglect? And not all cruelty is Trump’s
By CHRIS POWELL Everyone has heard the story about the boy who murdered his parents and then asked the court for leniency because he had become an orphan. Connecticut now has a case that goes one better. If ‘public benefits’ require deception, get rid of them Blumenthal chastises merchants who are more honest than heContinue reading “A big payday for child neglect? And not all cruelty is Trump’s”
If ‘public benefits’ require deception, get rid of them
By CHRIS POWELL Misconduct by its recently disgraced and departed chairwoman, Marissa Gillett, has Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority on the defensive. Past utility rate decisions have been put in legal jeopardy, utility companies are getting angry and aggressive, Gillett’s Democratic allies in the General Assembly have been discredited for their complicity with her powerContinue reading “If ‘public benefits’ require deception, get rid of them”
Blumenthal chastises merchants who are more honest than he is
By CHRIS POWELL What would the holidays be in Connecticut without U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal warning his constituents about the perils of the season — dangerous toys, fraudulent business practices, Republicans, and the like? (Poking the Russian bear on its own doorstep has yet to make the senator’s list.) There’s plenty of guilt by associationContinue reading “Blumenthal chastises merchants who are more honest than he is”
There’s plenty of guilt by association to go around in Connecticut
By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut’s Democratic state chairman, Danbury Mayor Roberto Alves, thinks he has discovered the decisive disqualification for the two declared candidates for next year’s Republican nomination for governor — Greenwich state Sen. Ryan Fazio and former New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart — and presumably for any Republican seeking elective office in Connecticut. GetContinue reading “There’s plenty of guilt by association to go around in Connecticut”
Get real about speed limits and student suspensions
By CHRIS POWELL As most drivers in Connecticut have noticed, for a few years now the state’s highways have seemed full of homicidal maniacs, like the one who was arrested last week by a state trooper for going 127 miles per hour on the limited-access portion of Route 6 in Mansfield, nearly double the speedContinue reading “Get real about speed limits and student suspensions”
Eastern Connecticut State University tries to revive the ‘noble savage’ myth
By CHRIS POWELL Having realized that it had been overlooking a prerequisite of political correctness in academia, Eastern Connecticut State University this month adopted a formal “land acknowledgment” that will be ceremoniously proclaimed at the start of major university events. Poet explains to Senator Murphy why others don’t side with him New Haven school boardContinue reading “Eastern Connecticut State University tries to revive the ‘noble savage’ myth”
Poet explains to Senator Murphy why some others don’t side with him
By CHRIS POWELL Those six Democratic members of Congress who last week managed to provoke more hysteria from President Trump by noting that American soldiers can disobey “illegal orders” would have been far more helpful if they specified the illegal orders they fear Trump may issue. New Haven school board is frank with public: GetContinue reading “Poet explains to Senator Murphy why some others don’t side with him”
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