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By Chris Powell Bob Stefanowski last week clinched next year’s Republican nomination for governor for a rematch against Ned Lamont. Stefanowski did it by jumping on news coverage of the connections between the governor’s wife, Ann, an investment banker, and two companies that have gotten patronage from the Lamont administration — one a lucrative emergencyContinue reading “Lamont anoints Stefanowski and a more competitive race”

By Chris Powell Do state judges in Connecticut have unlimited sick and vacation time? That is the implication of the case of Superior Court Judge Alice Bruno, who, Hartford Courant columnist Kevin Rennie revealed three weeks ago, has not shown up for work for two years but nevertheless has been paid her full salary, totalingContinue reading “Why 2 years of concealment and expensive inaction on judge?”

By Chris Powell Woody Allen movie fans might appreciate the joke Danbury’s Zoning Commission is playing on homeless people in the city and, really, on the whole state. In Allen’s spoof of Russian novels, “Love and Death,” the comic hero at last wins the woman he adores and on their wedding night puts his armContinue reading “A joke on Danbury’s homeless; and another felonious lawyer”

By Chris Powell Maybe it’s just a coincidence, but with his re-election campaign coming up, Governor Lamont says Connecticut may be able to afford some tax cuts, or at least a revival of a property tax credit against state income tax obligations. Some fellow Democrats in the General Assembly are receptive to the idea. ButContinue reading “Can state afford to cut taxes? And higher ed is propaganda”

By Chris Powell With proto-Nazis and proto-Commies brawling in the streets across Weimar America, it may be more important than ever to recall Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter’s wry observation that “the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.” At best Kyle Rittenhouse is a stupid and reckless kidContinue reading “Kenosha and Manchester provide scenes from Weimar America”

By Chris Powell Democrats in Connecticut insist that there is no crime wave in the state and that concerns about crime are Republican contrivances. But it’s nice that the state’s minority party is pressing any issues at all, and Connecticut lately has had some criminal atrocities that really should be learned from, especially some involvingContinue reading “Car thefts are the least part of scandal in juvenile justice”

By Chris Powell Connecticut constantly hears clamor for more “fairness” in its various forms of taxation, but exactly what does this mean? Of course the ultimate in fair taxation is when someone else pays, which usually means “the rich,” and this is most convenient politically when “the rich” are a minority small enough to beContinue reading “What does ‘fair’ taxation really mean in Connecticut?”

By Chris Powell Apparently it’s not enough for the political left in Connecticut that nearly all state and municipal government employees are officially organized by law against government’s very few actual managers assigned to implement the public interest. Last week four state employee unions brought a federal lawsuit claiming that members of the Connecticut NationalContinue reading “Don’t unionize the Guard; and bust the racism racket”

By Chris Powell Vernon School Superintendent Joseph Macary may mean well, but then so did the guy who closed the barn door after the horses got out. The other day Macary urged Vernon’s Planning and Zoning Commission to reject a zoning regulation that would allow marijuana retailing as close as 500 feet to school property.Continue reading “State won’t protect children from marijuana and gambling”

By Chris Powell Energy prices are exploding and it seems that the Biden administration wants them to as the administration impairs U.S. energy production and transmission even as it urges other countries to increase their production to rescue the United States from its own lunacy. This policy of driving up energy prices and increasing theContinue reading “Killingly generator is needed, Ganim’s self-importance isn’t”