By CHRIS POWELL Thanks to President Trump, Connecticut now knows a little more about the politically correct nuttiness that afflicts the state’s public higher education. In response to the Trump administration’s directive to colleges to get rid of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” stuff or risk losing federal funding, the University of Connecticut said the otherContinue reading “Will UConn offer degrees in political correctness?”
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Buying teacher union support doesn’t make schools better
By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut is a case study of the fallacy that spending on public schools correlates with student learning. The state has been increasing spending in the name of education since the state Supreme Court’s 1977 decision in the school financing case of Horton v. Meskill, which prompted state government to increase financial grantsContinue reading “Buying teacher union support doesn’t make schools better”
Trump aids Larson’s campaign; and Lamont’s disaster at PURA
By CHRIS POWELL Barring some accident, scandal, or health problem, U.S. Rep. John B. Larson probably can count on President Trump to carry him through next year’s Democratic primary in Connecticut’s 1st Congressional District. Let the Sun set elsewhere; we have enough basketball Postal service remains too quaint in Connecticut Build housing without sprawl; andContinue reading “Trump aids Larson’s campaign; and Lamont’s disaster at PURA”
Let the Sun set elsewhere; we have enough basketball
By CHRIS POWELL Why are Governor Lamont and state Treasurer Erick Russell so enthusiastic about using state pension money to make state government a minority owner of the Mohegan tribe’s Connecticut Sun women’s basketball team and move it to Hartford from the tribe’s reservation in rural eastern Connecticut? Postal service remains too quaint in ConnecticutContinue reading “Let the Sun set elsewhere; we have enough basketball”
U.S. Postal Service remains too quaint in Connecticut
By CHRIS POWELL Within living memory there were five post offices in East Windsor, one in each of the town’s villages — Warehouse Point, Scantic, Broad Brook, Melrose, and Windsorville. But there was no East Windsor post office in East Windsor. The only post office with East Windsor in its name, East Windsor Hill, wasContinue reading “U.S. Postal Service remains too quaint in Connecticut”
Build housing without sprawl; and are schools sanctuaries?
By CHRIS POWELL Supposedly there was going to be a special session of the General Assembly in the fall to arrange a compromise on the housing legislation passed by liberal Democratic legislators during this year’s regular session but vetoed by Governor Lamont. Fall is here but neither the governor nor the legislature has issued suchContinue reading “Build housing without sprawl; and are schools sanctuaries?”
Teachers aren’t trying to stop the collapse of education
By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut’s public school teachers are feeling resentful again. The other day their biggest union, the deceptively named Connecticut Education Association, reported a poll of its members that was full of the usual findings: Teachers feel overworked, underpaid, and disrespected. Overimpressed by college, Democrats get arrogant Senator Winfield and other Democrats want openContinue reading “Teachers aren’t trying to stop the collapse of education”
Utility regulator, caught lying, blames her adversaries
By CHRIS POWELL Just hours after she was caught lying to state legislators, the chairwoman of Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, Marissa P. Gillett, resigned last week, blaming her vindicated critics for making her life harder than she could bear. Overimpressed by college, Democrats get arrogant Senator Winfield and other Democrats want open borders againContinue reading “Utility regulator, caught lying, blames her adversaries”
Overimpressed by college, Democrats get arrogant
By CHRIS POWELL Surely state Rep. Eleni Kavros DeGraw, D-Avon, doesn’t represent the entirety of Connecticut’s Democratic Party. But she is evidence of the party’s transition from the party of the working class to the party of the arrogant elites. Senator Winfield and other Democrats want open borders again Charlie Kirk’s murder shows where cancelContinue reading “Overimpressed by college, Democrats get arrogant”
Senator Winfield and other Democrats want open borders again
By CHRIS POWELL In a recent newspaper essay, state Sen. Gary Winfield, D-New Haven, laid out clearly the position of most Democratic officials in Connecticut on illegal immigration. Charlie Kirk’s murder shows where cancel culture leads Remote work in state government isn’t best for the public Don’t turn state pension money into a political slush fundContinue reading “Senator Winfield and other Democrats want open borders again”
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