By CHRIS POWELL No one in journalism in Connecticut seems to have noted it except for Hartford Business Journal Editor Greg Bordonaro, but Governor Lamont defaulted this year on an issue he repeatedly said he wanted to address: the need to get state government employees back to work in their offices and reduce the timeContinue reading “Governor punts ‘telework’ issue safely past November’s election”
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Taxes in Connecticut can’t be cut while personnel costs stay exempt
By CHRIS POWELL For the second straight year hundreds of people in Bloomfield are sore that while their side prevailed overwhelmingly in a referendum on the town budget, which they opposed, they still lost and the budget again has been deemed approved, this time with a 3% tax increase. Some property owners will end upContinue reading “Taxes in Connecticut can’t be cut while personnel costs stay exempt”
State will never get to education if it keeps detouring to poverty
By CHRIS POWELL If you want to see where Connecticut’s cities are, you don’t need a road map with their names on it and the densely populated areas highlighted in yellow. A report the other day in Connecticut’s Hearst newspapers carried a map of the state with orange dots signifying schools with good scores and blue dotsContinue reading “State will never get to education if it keeps detouring to poverty”
Empaneling anonymous jurors, judge demolishes due process
By CHRIS POWELL Even the Trump administration hasn’t yet tried to mangle the criminal-justice system and civil liberties as much as a judge in Meriden Superior Court is trying to do. Where are Connecticut’s “No Kings” people when they’re needed close to home? Housing achieves integration better than regional schools Larson’s best case against BroninContinue reading “Empaneling anonymous jurors, judge demolishes due process”
Housing achieves integration better than regional schools
By CHRIS POWELL Some years ago racial integration in education used to be at least a nominal objective in Connecticut. Not so much anymore. Larson’s best case against Bronin is the flip side of the age issue Yale’s new mission statement may be a little too pedestrian School finance study committee is rigged in favorContinue reading “Housing achieves integration better than regional schools”
Larson’s best case vs. Bronin is the flip side of the age issue
By CHRIS POWELL Is the Democratic Party in Connecticut’s 1st Congressional District really as nuts as it seems from the primary campaign between U.S. Rep. John B. Larson and former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin? Yale’s new mission statement may be a little too pedestrian School finance study committee is rigged in favor of educatorsContinue reading “Larson’s best case vs. Bronin is the flip side of the age issue”
Yale’s new mission statement may be a little too pedestrian
By CHRIS POWELL With the Trump administration beating up on higher education and especially colleges and universities with the biggest endowments, which are now to be brutally taxed by the federal government, Yale University seems to have decided to guard against being seen as pretentious. School finance study committee is rigged in favor of educatorsContinue reading “Yale’s new mission statement may be a little too pedestrian”
School finance study committee is rigged in favor of educators
By CHRIS POWELL A 23-member committee appointed by Governor Lamont and legislative leaders will convene next week to start devising what the governor wants to be “a top-to-bottom overhaul of how the state funds its public schools.” Democrats howl at enforcement of 20-year-old deportation order ‘Investing’ euphemizes spending; and two more empty gestures Falling studentContinue reading “School finance study committee is rigged in favor of educators”
Democrats howl at enforcement of 20-year-old deportation order
By CHRIS POWELL Some Democratic elected officials in Connecticut say there was an immigration law enforcement atrocity in Bridgeport this month. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a man as he waited in his car with his son at a bus stop for the boy’s ride to high school in New Haven. The man wasContinue reading “Democrats howl at enforcement of 20-year-old deportation order”
‘Investing’ euphemizes spending; and two more empty gestures
By CHRIS POWELL Politics and government long have been full of euphemisms — words that camouflage or sanitize what is being done — and the euphemism that was in greatest use as the recent session of the General Assembly ended was “invest.” The governor and legislators declared proudly that they had “invested” more in this,Continue reading “‘Investing’ euphemizes spending; and two more empty gestures”
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