By Chris Powell Connecticut’s nullification of federal immigration law proceeded this month as state government extended its welfare system’s medical insurance to illegal immigrant children by three years, from 12 and under to 15 and under. The children being added will be able to keep their state coverage until they turn 19 — and maybe,Continue reading “Extending medical insurance rewards illegal immigration”
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By rewarding racism bunk, Connecticut will get more of it
By CHRIS POWELL Last year former state Public Health Commissioner Renee D. Coleman-Mitchell, who is Black, induced the Lamont administration to pay her $200,000 to settle her lawsuit charging that her firing by the governor three years earlier was racist. Now former Chief Public Defender TaShun Bowden-Lewis, who is also Black, is suing for damagesContinue reading “By rewarding racism bunk, Connecticut will get more of it”
Mansions don’t foil housing and taxing them won’t build it
By Chris Powell Apparently you don’t have to do much thinking to run a “think tank” in Washington, or at least not a liberal “think tank.” The Connecticut Mirror reports that two such “think tanks” — the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy — have produced a study concludingContinue reading “Mansions don’t foil housing and taxing them won’t build it”
Water utility purchase bill is Democratic power grab
By Chris Powell Government ownership of utility companies can work in the public interest, at least where government wants to work in the public interest. Whether it wants to is always a fair question in Connecticut. The General Assembly again failed the public interest the other day when it abruptly jammed a weighty bill onto itsContinue reading “Water utility purchase bill is Democratic power grab”
If democracy is at stake, Connecticut Democrats won’t save it
By Chris Powell Despite President Biden’s disastrous performance in last week’s debate with Donald Trump, Connecticut journalists could not find one leading Democrat in the state ready to ask the president to drop his campaign for re-election and let the party nominate someone presentable. Some of those leading Connecticut Democrats say democracy will be inContinue reading “If democracy is at stake, Connecticut Democrats won’t save it”
Climate change fanatics practice totalitarianism
By Chris Powell When, in 1955, Rosa Parks, a courageous Black woman, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested, and sparked the modern U.S. civil rights movement, the connection between her protest and her objective was clear: to end the racial segregation maintained byContinue reading “Climate change fanatics practice totalitarianism”
Logan and other Republicans in Connecticut can explain backing Trump
By Chris Powell Why is former state Sen. George Logan, who is sure to get the Republican nomination for U.S. representative from Connecticut’s 5th District again, dancing around the question of whether and how much he supports his party’s presumptive nominee for president, former President Donald Trump? According to the Waterbury Republican-American, at a campaignContinue reading “Logan and other Republicans in Connecticut can explain backing Trump”
Murder in a state prison but who really cares?
By Chris Powell Connecticut’s top elected officials and members of Congress, all Democrats, excel at criticizing the private sector and the state’s regulated utilities. Indeed, there is always much to criticize, as last week state Attorney General William Tong criticized Connecticut Natural Gas for earning more money than authorized by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.Continue reading “Murder in a state prison but who really cares?”
State Education Department belatedly notices Hartford school disaster
By Chris Powell At last the state Education Department seems to have noticed that long after Hartford’s school system was designated an “alliance district” and given extra state money to execute a special plan to improve student performance, performance has not improved and the school system itself is falling apart, with a $40 million budgetContinue reading “State Education Department belatedly notices Hartford school disaster”
Despite fawning lawyers, courts can be corrupt
By Chris Powell According to the Connecticut Bar Association, criticism of the courts has gone too far, particularly criticism of the New York State court that convicted former President Donald J. Trump of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. In a letter sent this month to the association’s members, its top three officers, includingContinue reading “Despite fawning lawyers, courts can be corrupt”
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