By CHRIS POWELL No issue in Connecticut generates more comment with less effect than public education, and now Governor Lamont is doubling down. He is arranging the appointment of the Governor’s Blue-Ribbon Commission on K-12 Education Funding and Accountability, which, in the hope of making education funding fairer and more effective, will study state government’sContinue reading “Better education is impossible but maybe not fairer taxation”
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ICE should explain faster but protests want ‘no nations’
By CHRIS POWELL Even people who want federal immigration law enforced and who voted for Donald Trump for president in the belief that the open borders policy of the Biden administration and the Democratic Party was national suicide should be aggravated with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. A golden age of unaccountability dawnsContinue reading “ICE should explain faster but protests want ‘no nations’”
A golden age of unaccountability dawns for municipal government
By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut is nearly the highest-taxed and most expensive state in the country, and though state legislators are prattling about making the state more “affordable,” most of this year’s session of the General Assembly has been a scramble to spend more money. Indeed, the legislature long has been most remarkable for its inabilityContinue reading “A golden age of unaccountability dawns for municipal government”
Are people no longer obliged to support their own children?
By CHRIS POWELL Anyone following the news in Connecticut might wonder if people are still expected to support their own children, or if a great wave of impoverishment and exemption from responsibility is sweeping the state. UConn facilitates student riots; and sidewalks aren’t therapy If cows will get tax credits, all journalists should farm GovernorContinue reading “Are people no longer obliged to support their own children?”
UConn facilitates student riots; and sidewalks aren’t therapy
By CHRIS POWELL Students at the University of Michigan’s main campus in Ann Arbor rioted Monday night, along with other city residents, after the university’s men’s basketball team, the Wolverines, defeated the University of Connecticut in the national college championship game. The rioters set 40 fires and vandalized streetlights and street signs. Police made aContinue reading “UConn facilitates student riots; and sidewalks aren’t therapy”
If cows will get tax credits, all journalists should farm
By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut’s dairy farmers, long having suffered in a marginal business and having been reduced in numbers from about 800 in the 1970s to only 80 today, say they are on the brink of failure and require a subsidy from state government to survive. Governor argues weakly against voter registration ID proposal MisconductContinue reading “If cows will get tax credits, all journalists should farm”
Governor argues weakly against voter registration ID proposal
By CHRIS POWELL Democratic leaders in Connecticut are clamoring against what Republicans in Congress are calling the SAVE Act, which would require people registering to vote to produce proof of citizenship. Since the state’s congressional delegation is entirely Democratic and there is little chance that the state will elect any Republican to Congress this year,Continue reading “Governor argues weakly against voter registration ID proposal”
Misconduct forgotten, a grifter sits in the governor’s chair
By CHRIS POWELL Twenty years ago Ned Lamont accomplished what may have been the neatest trick in Connecticut political history. He won the primary for the Democratic nomination for U.S. senator, defeating the incumbent, Joe Lieberman, and lost the election on the same night. By firing cop in shooting, did Hartford mayor yield to politics?Continue reading “Misconduct forgotten, a grifter sits in the governor’s chair”
By firing cop in shooting, did Hartford mayor yield to politics?
By CHRIS POWELL When he peremptorily fired the Hartford police officer who shot and killed a mentally ill man who was walking through his neighborhood with a long knife and was refusing police commands to drop it, Mayor Arunan Arulampalam last week worsened a bad situation and probably increased city government’s financial liability. Accountability terrifiesContinue reading “By firing cop in shooting, did Hartford mayor yield to politics?”
Accountability terrifies public higher educators
By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut’s public higher educators, or at least those with the ear of the General Assembly, want to prohibit the public from finding out what they’re teaching students at tax expense. For the fourth straight year they have persuaded legislators to advance a bill that would exempt the outlines of their courses —Continue reading “Accountability terrifies public higher educators”
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