By CHRIS POWELL Now that the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system has lost a second straight highly paid chief executive — the “chancellor” — because of misconduct of some kind, maybe Governor Lamont should find some agency other than the system’s Board of Regents to appoint the next one. Legislators are worrying most aboutContinue reading “One scandal after another with dodgy college regents”
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Legislators are worrying most about the wrong students
By CHRIS POWELL In principle children can’t have too many people looking out for them. So state legislators are fairly concerned about the recent alleged abuse of three children who were withdrawn from public school on parental claims that they would be home-schooled. One of the children was murdered at home. Another died at homeContinue reading “Legislators are worrying most about the wrong students”
Lamont, Tong, and Elicker escape immigration queries
By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut’s laws forbidding state and municipal police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities may not be unconstitutional, as is alleged by the lawsuit brought last week against state officials by the Trump administration, but the objective of those laws is exactly what the suit alleges: to turn Connecticut into a “sanctuary state.”Continue reading “Lamont, Tong, and Elicker escape immigration queries”
Raising state taxes on the rich is just an excuse for plunder
By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut is already nearly the highest-taxed state in the country, as well as nearly the most expensive (in part because its taxes are so high), but last Wednesday — the deadline for submission of state and federal tax returns — a hundred people from what calls itself the Connecticut for All coalitionContinue reading “Raising state taxes on the rich is just an excuse for plunder”
Better education is impossible but maybe not fairer taxation
By CHRIS POWELL No issue in Connecticut generates more comment with less effect than public education, and now Governor Lamont is doubling down. He is arranging the appointment of the Governor’s Blue-Ribbon Commission on K-12 Education Funding and Accountability, which, in the hope of making education funding fairer and more effective, will study state government’sContinue reading “Better education is impossible but maybe not fairer taxation”
ICE should explain faster but protests want ‘no nations’
By CHRIS POWELL Even people who want federal immigration law enforced and who voted for Donald Trump for president in the belief that the open borders policy of the Biden administration and the Democratic Party was national suicide should be aggravated with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. A golden age of unaccountability dawnsContinue reading “ICE should explain faster but protests want ‘no nations’”
A golden age of unaccountability dawns for municipal government
By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut is nearly the highest-taxed and most expensive state in the country, and though state legislators are prattling about making the state more “affordable,” most of this year’s session of the General Assembly has been a scramble to spend more money. Indeed, the legislature long has been most remarkable for its inabilityContinue reading “A golden age of unaccountability dawns for municipal government”
Are people no longer obliged to support their own children?
By CHRIS POWELL Anyone following the news in Connecticut might wonder if people are still expected to support their own children, or if a great wave of impoverishment and exemption from responsibility is sweeping the state. UConn facilitates student riots; and sidewalks aren’t therapy If cows will get tax credits, all journalists should farm GovernorContinue reading “Are people no longer obliged to support their own children?”
UConn facilitates student riots; and sidewalks aren’t therapy
By CHRIS POWELL Students at the University of Michigan’s main campus in Ann Arbor rioted Monday night, along with other city residents, after the university’s men’s basketball team, the Wolverines, defeated the University of Connecticut in the national college championship game. The rioters set 40 fires and vandalized streetlights and street signs. Police made aContinue reading “UConn facilitates student riots; and sidewalks aren’t therapy”
If cows will get tax credits, all journalists should farm
By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut’s dairy farmers, long having suffered in a marginal business and having been reduced in numbers from about 800 in the 1970s to only 80 today, say they are on the brink of failure and require a subsidy from state government to survive. Governor argues weakly against voter registration ID proposal MisconductContinue reading “If cows will get tax credits, all journalists should farm”
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