By Chris Powell Maybe the state should applaud the plan announced the other day by state Comptroller Sean Scanlon and leaders in the General Assembly to restore the solvency of the Connecticut Municipal Employees Retirement System. The system is run by state government and 107 of the state’s 169 towns participate in it to someContinue reading “Government worker pensions should be ended gradually”
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Lamont revives hockey myth; and is more cash being overlooked?
By Chris Powell While residents of Hartford’s North End kept complaining about the longstanding sewage overflows in their neighborhood and four women were struck by a hit-and-run driver nearby, Governor Lamont discovered what the city really needs: the return of a big-league hockey team like the long-lost Whalers. So the governor said he planned toContinue reading “Lamont revives hockey myth; and is more cash being overlooked?”
Lacking courage to talk back, Supreme Court nominee defeated herself
By Chris Powell Because she once said something nice about a judge long before that judge made it to the U.S. Supreme Court and ruled that there is no federal constitutional right to abortion, Sandra Slack Glover is not going to be appointed to Connecticut’s Supreme Court. Indeed, as long as Democratic abortion fanatics controlContinue reading “Lacking courage to talk back, Supreme Court nominee defeated herself”
Remediate Connecticut’s present before repudiating its past
By Chris Powell While the new state budget wasn’t yet complete, with several big issues waiting to be settled, the other day the state House of Representatives found time to pass a resolution that more or less repudiated and apologized for the conviction and execution of people alleged to have been witches in the ConnecticutContinue reading “Remediate Connecticut’s present before repudiating its past”
Tax cuts are a shell game that won’t transform cities
By Chris Powell Governor Lamont and Democratic and Republican state legislators are all proposing a half-percent reduction in the state income tax for most people, as if this should be considered a special boon. But since it has tens of billions of dollars in unfunded pension obligations, state government really isn’t solvent enough to affordContinue reading “Tax cuts are a shell game that won’t transform cities”
Has abortion really become Connecticut’s highest social good?
By Chris Powell Maybe nothing less could have been expected from Wesleyan University in Middletown, a citadel of leftist groupthink, but according to the university chapter of the Democratic Socialists, the university has agreed to pay for abortions for its students. Not for treatment of cancer or multiple sclerosis or Crohn’s disease or AIDS orContinue reading “Has abortion really become Connecticut’s highest social good?”
They want ‘financial literacy’ when kids lack any literacy
By Chris Powell Connecticut state legislators are never more oblivious than when they propose requirements for schools to teach certain subjects. A few months ago the subject to be required was the history of the Indian tribes that inhabited the state centuries ago. Now the subject to be required is “financial literacy.” The Indian historyContinue reading “They want ‘financial literacy’ when kids lack any literacy”
More spending only delays improvement in state government
By Chris Powell Should the restraints on state government spending that were imposed by bipartisan majorities in the General Assembly several years ago be repealed outright or evaded by enacting strategic exceptions, what Governor Lamont disparages as “gimmicks”? Such clamor has arisen from liberal legislators, social service groups, and other advocates of enlarging government inContinue reading “More spending only delays improvement in state government”
Amid climate change hysteria, Tong scapegoats oil industry
By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut residents may be forgiven for thinking that two of their most successful politicians of recent years, Joe Lieberman and Dick Blumenthal, invented the modern practice of the state attorney general’s office, whereby they posed as “the people’s lawyer” and constantly thundered and brought suit against all sorts of villains abusing society,Continue reading “Amid climate change hysteria, Tong scapegoats oil industry”
Who will like ‘infrastructure’ when it ‘dislocates’ a town?
By CHRIS POWELL Everybody seems to love federal appropriations for “infrastructure” — free money, conjured not with taxation but with inflation and the rest of the world’s purchase of U.S. government debt. Such appropriations can pay for big and expensive things, like modernizing the country’s creaky passenger rail system. But will people always be asContinue reading “Who will like ‘infrastructure’ when it ‘dislocates’ a town?”
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