By Chris Powell Another protected species made news in Connecticut last week when a venomous timber rattlesnake attacked two dogs in their yard in Glastonbury. Their owner rushed the dogs to the Pieper Veterinary clinic in Middletown just in time for them to be saved with snakebite antidote, what is called antivenin. The dog ownerContinue reading “Bears, bobcats, and now rattlers: How many more do you want?”
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Education disaster in cities is all child neglect by parents
By Chris Powell August’s Titanic Deck Chairs Rearrangement Award seems likely to be won by the Education Committee of New Haven’s Board of Alders (aka the city council), which, according to the New Haven Independent, in the face of catastrophic student performance data, spent much of its last meeting debating reading instruction techniques even asContinue reading “Education disaster in cities is all child neglect by parents”
Two management failures cost state another $1 million
By Chris Powell More than a million dollars were lost this month in a couple of incidents of state government’s mismanagement, and in full view. But, from the governor on down, no one in authority took notice. There wasn’t a peep or even a shrug. First, Connecticut Public, the broadcasting outfit, reported that a teacherContinue reading “Two management failures cost state another $1 million”
Hidden state tax is behind high medical insurance costs
By Chris Powell Long ago a Sunday installment of the newspaper comic strip “B.C.” depicted a caveman mischievously watching a sleeping dinosaur from behind a boulder. The caveman pulled a thorn off a bush, crept up to the dinosaur, jammed the thorn into its foot, and rushed back behind the boulder. The dinosaur awakened inContinue reading “Hidden state tax is behind high medical insurance costs”
It’s easy to avoid silly pronouns; and let Ganim taint the law
By Chris Powell Languages belong to those who use them. Dictionaries standardize language on the basis of prevailing usage. If users want to be clearly understood, they will follow those standards pretty closely. But the transgenderism craze that is sweeping politically correct circles, which include many news organizations, is upending and mangling the English languageContinue reading “It’s easy to avoid silly pronouns; and let Ganim taint the law”
Persecution won’t prevent Trump’s return as president
By Chris Powell Less partisan observers of Donald Trump might have been able to warn the Biden administration against harrying him over the official documents he took with him to his home in Florida after resentfully departing the White House. There was no urgency for the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, since efforts to recover theContinue reading “Persecution won’t prevent Trump’s return as president”
Allowed to keep working, ‘heroes’ already got reward
By Chris Powell Connecticut state government is about to spend another $30 million pursuing another mistaken premise. The money will go for “hero pay,” grants of as much as $1,000 to people in “essential” occupations in the private sector who stayed on the job during the worst of the recent virus epidemic when much ofContinue reading “Allowed to keep working, ‘heroes’ already got reward”
Trump didn’t defeat Klarides; it was her lack of inspiration
By Chris Powell Late-developing enthusiasm among devotees of former President Donald Trump is being given as the cause of Leora Levy’s unexpected victory in the primary for Connecticut’s Republican U.S. Senate nomination over Themis Klarides, the former state representative who had the endorsement of the party’s state convention. Trump endorsed Levy just a few daysContinue reading “Trump didn’t defeat Klarides; it was her lack of inspiration”
Enfield and Hartford schools are striving to deceive parents
By Chris Powell How did the infamous “pizza sex” assignment get into a middle school classroom in Enfield in January? And was a Hartford school nurse, suspended in March, telling the truth when she wrote on social media that the school system conceals from parents the gender dysphoria suffered by their children? The school systemsContinue reading “Enfield and Hartford schools are striving to deceive parents”
Why should repeat criminals be exempt from bail rules?
By Chris Powell Many criminal defendants, the Connecticut Mirror reported the other day, can’t “claw their way out” of pre-trial detention because they can’t afford even the small cash bails required of them. It’s easy to see cash bail as a problem since, according to the Mirror, more than 40% of the people held inContinue reading “Why should repeat criminals be exempt from bail rules?”
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