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By Chris Powell By now nearly everyone who pays attention to Connecticut news knows of the state legislator who last year stood up to speak at the Capitol when she was drunk and lapsed into incoherence and who, a few weeks ago, was driving drunk when she crashed her car nearby. The legislator has becomeContinue reading “Legislator’s drinking problem isn’t state’s biggest scandal”

By Chris Powell Wokeness, the new model of political correctness reigning supreme in Connecticut, holds that all racial disproportions are caused by “structural racism” and must be eliminated by policy that awards favoritism by race. State traffic stop data has shown that Black and Hispanic motorists are stopped somewhat more often than would be suggestedContinue reading “Faulty presumption of racism may nullify rules for driving”

By Chris Powell Being the source of all sorts of politically correct nuttiness even as its violent crime is atrocious and its schools don’t work (because few of their students have competent parents), New Haven may be criticized for its new experiment with released prisoners. The city is awarding 20 of them a guaranteed incomeContinue reading “For once New Haven shows what Connecticut should do”

By Chris Powell Judging by legislation they are advocating, Democrats in the General Assembly think, for the moment anyway, that minors are not capable of fully understanding and making decisions that may be life-altering. The Democrats would raise from 16 to 18 the age at which Connecticut allows marriage. They also would increase the paroleContinue reading “Democrats make little sense about competency of kids”

By Chris Powell For years now Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families has presumed that when parents are unfit to care for their kids, it is better to place them with relatives, since then the kids will not feel as lost and the foster parents will have a closer connection to them. Ordinarily this isContinue reading “State government’s most expensive negligence case: Baby Dylan”

By Chris Powell Just as you needn’t ask the barber if you need a haircut, you needn’t ask a political action committee run by government employee unions, leftist academics (maybe that’s a redundancy), and bleeding-heart clergy members whether government should raise taxes. But the political action committee called A Better Connecticut Institute figures that itsContinue reading “How would higher taxes on the super-rich improve Connecticut?”

By Chris Powell According to an assistant secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, Rachel Levine, who spoke the other day at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford, “gender-affirming care” — the euphemism for sex-change therapy — will be common and considered normal before too long. Levine may be right but noContinue reading “If sex changes get routine, country will be even crazier”

By Chris Powell Prompting suspicion that he seeks to follow in his father’s footsteps, state Rep. Matt Blumenthal, D-Stamford — son of U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, formerly Connecticut’s attorney general — proposes amending the state law that purports to require the attorney general to have 10 years of experience in the “active practice” of law.Continue reading “Let all run for attorney general; and renaming the river is groveling”

By Chris Powell Hardly a week passes without revealing more evidence that poverty is worsening in Connecticut. As an emergency measure, all public school students in Connecticut are now eligible for free or discounted school lunches for the current school year. But this month it was reported that the number of students who would qualifyContinue reading “Teacher raises always fail to reduce poverty in Connecticut”

By Chris Powell Anyone of a certain age who reflects upon Connecticut’s housing policy might be reminded of a Rube Goldberg contraption. Goldberg was the cartoonist of the last century who became famous for drawing imaginary devices that performed simple tasks in ridiculously complicated and inefficient ways. Inadvertently honoring Goldberg, Connecticut lets municipal zoning preventContinue reading “Connecticut’s housing policy is a Rube Goldberg contraption”