By Chris Powell Schools increasingly are prohibiting students from operating or even carrying “smart phones” — internet-equipped telephones — in class. Some schools are investing in special pouches in which students must lock their phones in school, being able to unlock them only with a special device made available when they are leaving. At $25Continue reading “‘Smart phones’ aren’t why Connecticut’s students are dumb”
Tag Archives: Gov. Ned Lamont
Lamont subverts competence in state government’s hiring
By Chris Powell Racial preferences in hiring used to be considered unfair because they treated people as members of groups rather than as individuals. This unfairness was euphemized as “affirmative action” and for a few decades the U.S. Supreme Court maintained an ambiguous stance on it. But recently the court took the forthright position thatContinue reading “Lamont subverts competence in state government’s hiring”
Ousting Biden, Democrats show Trump isn’t the only liar
By Chris Powell Forgive Democratic leaders for what seems like their hypocrisy, their overthrowing their presumptive nominee for president, the incumbent, Joe Biden, who won the party’s primaries, and replacing him instantly with Vice President Kamala Harris, who didn’t have to earn support for the nomination from the party’s ordinary members. It’s no big dealContinue reading “Ousting Biden, Democrats show Trump isn’t the only liar”
If you chant ‘Trump’ enough, Democrats’ policy failures vanish
By Chris Powell While Donald Trump can be intemperate, reckless, and megalomaniac, that is not why he has been so damaging to politics in Connecticut. Trump is most damaging to politics here because he has provided an excuse for so many members of the state’s majority party, the Democrats, as well as their allies inContinue reading “If you chant ‘Trump’ enough, Democrats’ policy failures vanish”
High school boys weren’t culture war’s aggressors
By Chris Powell According to a report in Connecticut’s Hearst newspapers, the recent destruction of a feminine hygiene products dispenser that had been installed in a boys bathroom at Brookfield High School “ignited a culture war.” But the “culture war” wasn’t ignited by the vandalism at all. It was ignited by the dispenser’s incongruous installation,Continue reading “High school boys weren’t culture war’s aggressors”
Overpaid higher educators say they can’t save a cent
By Chris Powell Public higher education in Connecticut is doomed — doomed! — if the University of Connecticut and the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system don’t get at least $110 million more than Governor Lamont has proposed in his budget. That’s what college administrators and students told a hearing of the General Assembly’s AppropriationsContinue reading “Overpaid higher educators say they can’t save a cent”
Press lets Lamont forget he runs a ‘sanctuary state’
By Chris Powell Not since President Richard Nixon went to China to cozy up to the communists there in 1972 has an American politician gotten away with reversing his position as easily as Governor Lamont did this month. In two national television interviews Feb. 2 the governor, a Democrat, said his party had been slowContinue reading “Press lets Lamont forget he runs a ‘sanctuary state’”
Was Lamont too cheery? And another racial mess
By Chris Powell Governor Lamont’s welcoming address to the new session of the General Assembly last week celebrated a state he sees improving in all respects. But even those who acknowledge that the governor is a decent guy may have begun noticing how much his remarks contrasted with recent news reports and the clamor atContinue reading “Was Lamont too cheery? And another racial mess”
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