By Chris Powell Charged with the horrifying immolation murder of a woman sleeping on a subway car in Brooklyn on Dec. 22 is a man from Guatemala who entered the country illegally and was deported in 2018 but who entered illegally again and found his way to New York, where subsidies for illegal immigrants areContinue reading “Connecticut mustn’t worry about illegal immigrants until they kill”
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‘Rubber rooms’ in schools: Where are all the messed-up kids coming from?
By Chris Powell A member of Enfield’s Board of Education is sore that the school system has eliminated a hundred staff positions as well as sports for many students but is increasing the number of school “seclusion rooms” at a cost of about $4,000 each. The rooms, whose walls are padded, are used for theContinue reading “‘Rubber rooms’ in schools: Where are all the messed-up kids coming from?”
Holiday congestion at Tweed indicates airport’s potential
By Chris Powell Amid the crush of holiday travel last week few people were calling the revival of Tweed-New Haven Airport a great success. Passengers and neighbors alike were sore about the traffic jams on the narrow streets of New Haven’s eastern neighborhood abutting the side of the airport where the terminal is. The streetsContinue reading “Holiday congestion at Tweed indicates airport’s potential”
Reconsidering fluoridation; and are we having fun yet?
By Chris Powell About 90% of Connecticut residents and 63% of U.S. residents are served by fluoridated water. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to become secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, considers fluoridation unsafe and aims to stop it. Kennedy has his eccentricities but that doesn’t make him wrongContinue reading “Reconsidering fluoridation; and are we having fun yet?”
Puzzle isn’t Musk but Biden; and state should take over failing city schools
By Chris Powell Democrats in Connecticut and throughout the country are seeking laughs by asserting that the political noise being made by zillionaire Elon Musk shows that he is not just an adviser to President-elect Donald Trump but the de-facto president-elect. Musk is an odd duck in some respects. But he seems to have gotten richContinue reading “Puzzle isn’t Musk but Biden; and state should take over failing city schools”
Lamont, legislators minimize college arrogance, hypocrisy
By Chris Powell Governor Lamont is right that the expense account exploitation perpetrated by the chancellor of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system, Terrence Cheng, and his fellow top administrators is “small ball,” insofar as the financial expense goes. It doesn’t compare to the hundreds of millions of dollars in cost overruns incurred inContinue reading “Lamont, legislators minimize college arrogance, hypocrisy”
It’s a wonderful life — and a political one
By Chris Powell Frank Capra’s 1946 film, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” to be broadcast again Christmas Eve at 8 p.m. by NBC television, is loved most for its personal message of discovery at Christmas: that its hero’s life has been, unbeknownst to him, crucial to his family, friends, community, and even his country. Such generalContinue reading “It’s a wonderful life — and a political one”
Senator Murphy, safely re-elected, attacks medical insurers
By Chris Powell The assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan on Dec. 4 has sparked political hysteria, most of all from Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy. In a video he posted on social media two weeks later, citing the assassination, Murphy, a Democrat re-elected in November, turned vulgar, asserting that the medicalContinue reading “Senator Murphy, safely re-elected, attacks medical insurers”
If new oversight committee is serious, where should it begin?
By Chris Powell Because of the state government scandals uncovered recently by the state auditors, and maybe because of the ones uncovered recently by the Hearst Connecticut newspapers, the Connecticut Mirror, the Yankee Institute’s Connecticut Inside Investigator, and the New Haven Independent, leaders of the Democratic majority in the General Assembly are creating another legislativeContinue reading “If new oversight committee is serious, where should it begin?”
Connecticut’s congressmen are even nuttier than Trump
By Chris Powell Some of President-elect Donald Trump’s personnel selections for his new administration are worrisome. But then some of Joe Biden’s personnel selections are worrisome too, like the defense secretary who entered a hospital for treatment of a longstanding medical condition without informing the White House of his whereabouts, and the Supreme Court nomineeContinue reading “Connecticut’s congressmen are even nuttier than Trump”
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