By CHRIS POWELL What’s the point of former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin’s candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Congress in Connecticut’s 1st Congressional District? Of course Bronin’s immediate objective is to defeat the incumbent Democrat he is challenging in a primary, U.S. Rep. John B. Larson, who has represented the district since 1999. But whyContinue reading “Bronin didn’t fix Hartford; and ‘fair’ just means ‘more’”
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Can Elliott make waste and fraud an issue in primary for governor?
By CHRIS POWELL Maybe Hamden state Rep. Josh Elliott, challenging Governor Lamont’s renomination in the Democratic primary August 11, has their party perfectly figured out. Elliott speaks almost entirely of enlarging government, increasing its dependents, taxing and spending more, and giving government more power over the economy and society generally. Poll finds strong undercurrent ofContinue reading “Can Elliott make waste and fraud an issue in primary for governor?”
Poll finds strong undercurrent of dissatisfaction with Lamont
By CHRIS POWELL Most political observers believe that Governor Lamont will win re-election easily, if the leftist faction of the Democratic Party doesn’t dump him in the primary for renomination in favor of Hamden state Rep. Josh Elliott. Will Connecticut have a campaign or just Lamont’s commercials? Looks like Democrats oppose any immigration enforcement Prisons,Continue reading “Poll finds strong undercurrent of dissatisfaction with Lamont”
Will Connecticut have a campaign or just Lamont’s commercials?
By CHRIS POWELL Governor Lamont may have the campaign for governor all to himself. His vast wealth is being deployed again and is stuffing Connecticut’s airwaves and internet channels with commercials and deluging journalist e-mailboxes with press releases. Looks like Democrats oppose any immigration enforcement Prisons, Attorney General Tong suppressed inmate death video A stateContinue reading “Will Connecticut have a campaign or just Lamont’s commercials?”
Fix Connecticut’s big problems before trying to seize utilities
By CHRIS POWELL In principle there’s nothing wrong with government ownership of electricity, water, and gas delivery utilities, since they are natural monopolies. People building a state or country from scratch might do best to start that way — if they have the necessary capital. Governor goes retrograde with Medicaid penalty tax Many TV andContinue reading “Fix Connecticut’s big problems before trying to seize utilities”
Governor goes retrograde with Medicaid penalty tax
By CHRIS POWELL For many years a strong current of thought within the Democratic Party and liberalism has argued for breaking the connection between employment and medical insurance. Why, it is asked, should people be stuck in jobs they may not like just because those jobs are their most practical way of getting vital coverage?Continue reading “Governor goes retrograde with Medicaid penalty tax”
State’s anti-ICE law is a fraud, and so is ‘believe all women’
By CHRIS POWELL The most recent politically correct charade of Connecticut’s nullifiers — including Governor Lamont, Attorney General William Tong, and the Democratic majority in the General Assembly — has been quickly exposed. It’s the new state law, enacted with the governor’s signature a month ago, purporting to prohibit federal immigration agents from wearing masksContinue reading “State’s anti-ICE law is a fraud, and so is ‘believe all women’”
Child protection agency will never fix a society that’s disintegrating
By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut doesn’t seem to have been bothered much by last week’s especially horrible fatality, that of a 3-year-old girl who was struck by a car and killed while crossing a street in Manchester, apparently unaccompanied, at 4:30 in the morning, 45 minutes before sunrise. The state Department of Children and Families quicklyContinue reading “Child protection agency will never fix a society that’s disintegrating”
Governor punts ‘telework’ issue safely past November’s election
By CHRIS POWELL No one in journalism in Connecticut seems to have noted it except for Hartford Business Journal Editor Greg Bordonaro, but Governor Lamont defaulted this year on an issue he repeatedly said he wanted to address: the need to get state government employees back to work in their offices and reduce the timeContinue reading “Governor punts ‘telework’ issue safely past November’s election”
School finance study committee is rigged in favor of educators
By CHRIS POWELL A 23-member committee appointed by Governor Lamont and legislative leaders will convene next week to start devising what the governor wants to be “a top-to-bottom overhaul of how the state funds its public schools.” Democrats howl at enforcement of 20-year-old deportation order ‘Investing’ euphemizes spending; and two more empty gestures Falling studentContinue reading “School finance study committee is rigged in favor of educators”
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