Must nearly all Connecticut be on government’s payroll?

By Chris Powell Are annual incomes of $250,000 a year for a couple and $100,000 for a single person not enough to support a family in Connecticut? That’s the implication of legislation proposed by many state legislators that would pay people $600 every year for each of as many as three of their children. AlongContinue reading “Must nearly all Connecticut be on government’s payroll?”

Connecticut’s congressmen are even nuttier than Trump

By Chris Powell Some of President-elect Donald Trump’s personnel selections for his new administration are worrisome. But then some of Joe Biden’s personnel selections are worrisome too, like the defense secretary who entered a hospital for treatment of a longstanding medical condition without informing the White House of his whereabouts, and the Supreme Court nomineeContinue reading “Connecticut’s congressmen are even nuttier than Trump”

Murphy’s pork is inflation; and U.S. wrecks Ukraine

By Chris Powell Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, whose idea of national security is to have border control agents wave across 5,000 illegal entrants per day, quite apart from the hundreds more who sneak into the country out of sight, has another great idea.  He calls it the Connecticut Fund Finder — an interactive mapContinue reading “Murphy’s pork is inflation; and U.S. wrecks Ukraine”