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By Chris Powell Legislation sponsored by Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal — supported by Connecticut’s other senator, Chris Murphy, and Governor Lamont, Democrats all — which was narrowly defeated in the Senate on May 11, titled the Women’s Health Protection Act, isn’t nutty just because it would authorize all abortions all the time, right up toContinue reading “In Connecticut, Democrats are the abortion extremists”

By Chris Powell Four months after the now internationally infamous “pizza sex” assignment was given to eighth-graders at Kennedy Middle School in Enfield, the town’s Board of Education has not yet figured out how it happened. Instead the board purportedly is stuck contemplating just [ITALICS] how [END ITALICS] to figure out how it happened. TheContinue reading “Enfield school chief conceals source of ‘pizza sex’ lesson”

By Chris Powell About 17% of state government employee positions have been left vacant, in part so Governor Lamont can improve state government’s financial position. Prison employees are required to work abusive amounts of overtime even as they are at high risk of contracting COVID-19. The state police lately felt so short-staffed that they sankContinue reading “If state government is doing so well, why fill its many vacancies?”

By Chris Powell Both political parties in Congress want to sustain the immigration controversy for partisan purposes more than they want a compromise that could resolve the controversy’s two major components — securing the borders while providing a path to citizenship for longtime illegal residents and children whose violation of immigration law was not theirContinue reading “Deal on abortion is possible but Democrats prefer acrimony”

By Chris Powell Especially in Connecticut elected officials claim credit for trying to solve the problems they themselves created. It happened again recently with legislation proposed in the General Assembly to require larger municipalities to create “fair rent” commissions with power to cancel or reduce residential rent increases. Yes, along with housing prices generally, rentsContinue reading “Why can’t Connecticut ever lift the poor to middle class?”

By CHRIS POWELL Empty gestures and distractions abounded last week in government and news reporting in Washington and Connecticut. In Washington the Biden administration and White House correspondents celebrated the appointment of the first Black presidential press secretary — and not just a Black one but a member of a sexual minority. The appointment distractedContinue reading “Running on empty gestures in Washington and Hartford”

By Chris Powell Abortion and gender dysphoria are serious issues worth serious discussion. But you’d never know it from listening to Connecticut’s two U.S. senators, Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy. They offer only hysteria to rile up their supporters, fanning the flames of the culture war. According to Blumenthal, the Supreme Court’s leaked draft decisionContinue reading “Blumenthal and Murphy escalate the culture war with hysteria”

By Chris Powell With a television commercial for his re-election campaign Governor Lamont has evoked the sardonic old principle of advertising: Take your weakest aspect and promote it until the cows come home, pre-empting the competition’s criticism on the point. The commercial is about the Lamont administration’s response to the two-year virus epidemic, a responseContinue reading “Lamont ad’s epidemic story isn’t what state remembers”

By Chris Powell Connecticut schools deny that they propagandize students, but last week the state’s teachers gloried in their propagandizing on the job. Members of the state’s largest teacher union, the Connecticut Education Association, dressed in red to participate in the union’s “Red for Ed Day of Action,” demonstrating and soliciting support for several school-relatedContinue reading “Teachers politick on the job; propaganda claims flagpoles”

By Chris Powell Has Connecticut ever gotten a state budget more cynical than the one about to be enacted by Governor Lamont and the Democratic majorities in the General Assembly? According to the Connecticut Mirror, more than half the budget’s $600 million in tax cuts will not be permanent but will expire within a year,Continue reading “‘Transformational’ state budget misleads amid high inflation”