By Chris Powell School officials in Meriden are sore that this column recently included the city in a list of Connecticut cities whose schools have serious problems, a list with New Haven, Hartford, Waterbury, and Bridgeport. These problems include chronic absenteeism, an influx of immigrant students who don’t speak English, parental neglect, and other pathologies of poverty. Continue reading “Even awful school systems must play the hand they’re dealt”
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Politically correct electricity will raise rates while failing climate
By Chris Powell How much do Connecticut and Governor Lamont want to commit to buying a lot of politically correct electricity to reduce “global warming” before ascertaining and understanding its price? Not as much as they used to. Reality is catching up with political correctness in energy costs. For Connecticut residents are angry at theirContinue reading “Politically correct electricity will raise rates while failing climate”
Connecticut isn’t ready to prosper; and stop taxing electricity
By Chris Powell When federal census data showed Connecticut’s population increasing by about 57,000 in 2021 and 2022, Governor Lamont construed it as great news, evidence of the state’s prosperity under his administration, a remarkable contrast with the population losses of nearby states. But the other day the U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged that the populationContinue reading “Connecticut isn’t ready to prosper; and stop taxing electricity”
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