By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut’s public higher educators, or at least those with the ear of the General Assembly, want to prohibit the public from finding out what they’re teaching students at tax expense. For the fourth straight year they have persuaded legislators to advance a bill that would exempt the outlines of their courses —Continue reading “Accountability terrifies public higher educators”
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Governor should make prisons account for deaths of inmates
By CHRIS POWELL Criminally convicted people are generally not very healthy. Many have smoked, abused drugs and alcohol, and become mentally ill or close to it. So it’s to be expected that some will die in prison. But since prisons are government institutions largely concealed from the public, government should account fully for every deathContinue reading “Governor should make prisons account for deaths of inmates”
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