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By Chris Powell According to those who supervise Connecticut’s elections, voter fraud is not a problem in the state — or at least not outside Bridgeport, where questions of honesty in elections often arise. Last week the state Elections Enforcement Commission began investigating a complaint that a worker for the campaign of a candidate forContinue reading “Connecticut has voter fraud; and fly illegals to New Haven”

By Chris Powell Ranked-choice voting has an endorsement from Governor Lamont, a Democrat, and an open mind from his Republican challenger, Bob Stefanowski, so it is doubly worth discussing during this election campaign. The ranked-choice idea applies to election contests with three or more candidates, contests that present the risk that the candidate with theContinue reading “Connecticut makes a case for ranked choice in elections”

By Chris Powell If distributing more money was the solution to the state’s serious social problems, Connecticut would have solved them long ago. Instead state government now has another commission, the Commission on Community Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention, which met for the first time last month and is to advise the state Public HealthContinue reading “Gun violence with urban poor shouldn’t be such a mystery”

By Chris Powell Call it an opportunistic feint in the “culture war” if you want, but the “Parental Bill of Rights” proposed last week by the Republican nominees for governor and lieutenant governor, Bob Stefanowski and state Rep. Laura Devlin, raises important issues Connecticut should stop evading. Several of the Republican proposals are vague. TheContinue reading “Republicans’ bill of rights for parents is just a start”

By Chris Powell Interviewed Sept. 4 by Dennis House on WTNH-TV8’s “This Week in Connecticut,” U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, an advocate of unrestricted abortion, got away with a big fib. House asked: “What do you say to a pro-life voter who may be turned off by your stance and may say, ‘Why can’t we have someContinue reading “Blumenthal dissembles on his late-term abortion bill”

By Chris Powell How racist is Enfield? Town government’s overreaction to a recent disgraceful but trivial incident is giving the impression that the town has become the northern headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan, even though the incident could have happened anywhere. It occurred as members of the Enfield High School football team were knockingContinue reading “‘Community conversation’ on race fails to get relevant”

By Chris Powell Reactions last week to the inadvertent confession of the Greenwich assistant principal who admitted hiring only young and liberal teachers and excluding Catholics, the better to propagandize students and induce them to grow up voting Democratic, have been just as revealing as the confession itself. State Attorney General William Tong seemed moreContinue reading “‘Vigilante’ journalism nails what the regular kind missed”

By Chris Powell News organizations in Connecticut lately have turned their attention to the shortage of housing in the state, which is especially oppressive to the poor as rents rise not only because of the shortage but also because of inflation. People increasingly are confined in small, uncomfortable, and even unsanitary apartments in unsafe neighborhoods.Continue reading “Irresponsible lifestyles are a big part of the housing problem”

By Chris Powell No one who closely follows “public” education — with its secrecy, deception, political correctness, pretension, contempt for parents, unaccountability, declining standards, financial excess, and steadily worsening performance — can be surprised by the confession of Greenwich elementary school vice principal Jeremy Boland, surreptitiously video-recorded by a seductress working for Project Veritas. Boland’sContinue reading “Political propaganda is policy in schools beyond Greenwich”

By Chris Powell During his travels around the state distributing goodies in pursuit of re-election in November, Governor Lamont might perform a valuable service by pausing for a moment here and there to examine the performance of ordinary management in state government. Two weeks ago the big failures were in education, where a state technicalContinue reading “Stop campaigning for a bit and examine what’s happening”