By CHRIS POWELL New Haven’s Board of Education, of which Mayor Justin Elicker is a member, says city residents should not be told how well School Superintendent Madeline Negron is doing her job. Lamont and Tong applaud defeat of their party’s own water scheme Hospital rescues promise far higher medical costs Wesleyan’s vegetarian plaque mayContinue reading “New Haven school board is frank with public: Get lost!”
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If new oversight committee is serious, where should it begin?
By Chris Powell Because of the state government scandals uncovered recently by the state auditors, and maybe because of the ones uncovered recently by the Hearst Connecticut newspapers, the Connecticut Mirror, the Yankee Institute’s Connecticut Inside Investigator, and the New Haven Independent, leaders of the Democratic majority in the General Assembly are creating another legislativeContinue reading “If new oversight committee is serious, where should it begin?”
Immigration fraud racket operates from city halls
By Chris Powell Having stuffed absentee ballot boxes for Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim and the city’s Democratic machine only to be caught on surveillance video and charged criminally and belatedly fired from her patronage job as official greeter at City Hall, Wanda Geter-Pataky has found what may be a more lucrative racket. The New HavenContinue reading “Immigration fraud racket operates from city halls”
Throwing money at schools is a policy needing an audit
By Chris Powell Like public education in most American cities, public education in Connecticut’s cities has been chaotic and ineffective for decades. Ever since the enactment of the Education Enhancement Act in 1986 the state’s response to this failure has been to throw money at schools and particularly at teacher salaries, on the premise thatContinue reading “Throwing money at schools is a policy needing an audit”
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