By CHRIS POWELL Governor Lamont and the leaders of the Democratic majority in the General Assembly have just made state government look pretty sleazy. Psych board did its job but insanity law is crazy Cheng is still pleading poverty; and what do illegals cost? Connecticut’s sanctimony cities show we could use Elon Musk They madeContinue reading “Undo corrupt deal on PURA; and UConn’s bigger scandal”
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Hold prisons accountable; and money isn’t education
By Chris Powell Bad stuff happens in prison. Prisoners assault each other and guards, and guards get too rough with prisoners. Not enough people are watching. Prison security makes it almost impossible for the public or journalists to watch, and secrecy breeds criminality. Psychiatric Security Board did its job but insanity law is crazy ChengContinue reading “Hold prisons accountable; and money isn’t education”
Psych board did its job but insanity law is crazy
By Chris Powell Having recently shrugged off his inability to get state government employees to return to their normal workplaces, Governor Lamont may have been lucky to be traveling in India the other day when the state Psychiatric Security Review Board announced it had conditionally released a murderous cannibal back into society, proclaiming him curedContinue reading “Psych board did its job but insanity law is crazy”
Cheng is still pleading poverty; and what do illegals cost?
By Chris Powell What a silly spectacle was last week’s hearing of the General Assembly’s Appropriations Committee on the budget of the state colleges and universities system. Chancellor Terrence Cheng, whose annual salary and benefits exceed $450,000, not counting whatever he can sneak onto his expense account, again pleaded poverty on behalf of his empire.Continue reading “Cheng is still pleading poverty; and what do illegals cost?”
Open government at 50: Principle isn’t practice
By Chris Powell Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Act, enacted in 1975, turns 50 this year, the legacy of Gov. Ella T. Grasso, who vigorously advocated it, and the Watergate scandal of the previous two years, which proclaimed the danger of secret power. The FOI law made Connecticut a leader in accountability in government. The lawContinue reading “Open government at 50: Principle isn’t practice”
Connecticut’s sanctimony cities show we could use Elon Musk
By Chris Powell Hysteria and sanctimony broke out in Connecticut and the country last Monday. Opponents of President Trump had dubbed it “Not My President’s Day” to protest everything his administration is doing or imagined to be doing. In Connecticut the protests were largest in three of the state’s sanctimony cities — about a thousandContinue reading “Connecticut’s sanctimony cities show we could use Elon Musk”
Connecticut doesn’t need more meat; and why unionize government?
By Chris Powell Environmentalists think that raising cattle for meat and milk harms the environment. Animal rights advocates and vegetarians think that eating living creatures is immoral. They have a point but the political struggle has not been going their way, especially since the world always confronts hunger and famine somewhere. Tong’s bluster on inflationContinue reading “Connecticut doesn’t need more meat; and why unionize government?”
Tong’s bluster on inflation scapegoats supermarkets
By Chris Powell Democratic politicians keep trying to blame inflation on manufacturers, landlords, insurance companies, and nearly everyone else in business. Most fervent in his scapegoating is Connecticut Attorney General William Tong. Last week Tong, a Democrat, proposed legislation requiring food producers and supermarkets to put special labels on products whose packaging shrinks without anContinue reading “Tong’s bluster on inflation scapegoats supermarkets”
Is anyone really governor? And the solution is parents
By Chris Powell Interviewed this week by WTIC-AM1080 morning host Brian Shactman, Governor Lamont remarked that state government is in good condition. But as the conversation turned to the loss of vibrancy in the cities, with so many former office workers now working from home, the governor noted that he wanted office workers, including stateContinue reading “Is anyone really governor? And the solution is parents”
Connecticut tells students they needn’t go to school
By CHRIS POWELL According to the recent results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a test given to students in fourth and eighth grades throughout the country and styled “The Nation’s Report Card,” Connecticut’s students are performing worse in reading and math than in 2019, before the national virus epidemic, which disastrously interrupted schooling nearly everywhere.Continue reading “Connecticut tells students they needn’t go to school”
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