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By CHRIS POWELL Pervasiveness is a strength of Governor Lamont’s campaign for re-election, since he has so much of his own money to spend on it, but coherence is not. The governor’s campaign commercials emphasize his support for “affordable health care for everyone” but don’t specify what that means. Is Lamont really considering defying teacherContinue reading “‘Affordable’ health insurance is more than bashing Amazon”

By CHRIS POWELL Election campaigns are supposed to cause candidates to clarify where they stand on important issues. But nothing seems likely to induce Governor Lamont to take a position before the election on a particularly controversial issue. It’s whether Connecticut will participate in the new federal program giving tax credits to people who donateContinue reading “Is Gov. Lamont really considering defying teacher unions for once?”

By CHRIS POWELL From the beginning of time to the Rape of the Sabine Women at the founding of Rome right up to the present era of what calls itself higher education, predatory young men and scatterbrained young women always have had a talent for finding each other. Lately these same old circumstances are beingContinue reading “Nothing will ever protect women better than their own good sense”

By CHRIS POWELL Lessons keep pouring out of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities System but they have nothing to do with student learning, just the misconduct and negligence of system personnel. For months the system has been losing executives and board members over various scandals, and last week Marc E. Fitch of Inside Investigator,Continue reading “Scandals and policy failures show state government is far too big”

By CHRIS POWELL Has any candidate in Connecticut ever repudiated his own campaign television commercial as quickly as Governor Lamont, a Democrat seeking election to a third term, did the other day?  ‘Best schools in America’ don’t include New Haven’s Another gun control law won’t get tough on crime Connecticut shouldn’t punish former offenders soContinue reading “If teachers feel underpaid, so what? Many other people do too”

By CHRIS POWELL Police provide basic information following most serious assaults or murders in Connecticut, and to prevent panic they often add that there is “no threat to the public” and that the assault or murder was “an isolated incident.” But nearly every day Connecticut is full of “isolated incidents” that, if taken together, wouldContinue reading “Another gun control law won’t get tough on crime”