By CHRIS POWELL In 2023 computer hackers stole $6 million from the New Haven school system and city government fired the system’s information technology director over it. Eventually a little more than $5 million was recovered, and the other day an arbiter ruled that the theft wasn’t the fault of the information technology director andContinue reading “Mayor feigns dismay about city employee’s reinstatement”
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Church schools might save some city kids — is that bad?
By CHRIS POWELL Correlation is not necessarily causation, but it can give some hints, and the decline of education in Connecticut and particularly in its cities has correlated with the decline in Catholic schools and the decline in Catholicism and religion generally. Of course the church has had grave faults but it has excelled withContinue reading “Church schools might save some city kids — is that bad?”
Hartford’s new archbishop eyes the poverty factory
By Chris Powell When he was installed two weeks ago, Hartford’s new Catholic archbishop, Christopher J. Coyne, said he has several big objectives, though he conceded that with two of them he may be dreaming. Coyne’s most practical objective is simply restoring the local church and regaining parishioners. “In recent years,” Coyne said, “we haveContinue reading “Hartford’s new archbishop eyes the poverty factory”
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