By CHRIS POWELL Anyone who still wants to call Connecticut’s biggest government expense “public” education should take a look at New Haven’s “public” schools. It’s bad enough that in Connecticut all “public” school teacher evaluations are secret. Now New Haven’s Board of Education has just begun its annual evaluation of School Superintendent Madeline Negron andContinue reading “‘Public’ schools, secret evaluations; and Democratic billionaires are OK”
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New Haven piously presumes it should expropriate property
By CHRIS POWELL New Haven has no city motto but as the proletarianizing and collectivist instincts of its political class consume the city, the Board of Alders might well consider adopting the old sayings “What’s yours is mine” and “Property is theft.” Tax-shifting ideas won’t prevent property tax increases for long McMahon squanders her chanceContinue reading “New Haven piously presumes it should expropriate property”
‘Best schools in America’ don’t include New Haven’s
By CHRIS POWELL A hearing last week before New Haven’s Board of Alders about the city’s schools sure didn’t match the television commercial being broadcast by Governor Lamont’s re-election campaign, wherein the governor boasts that Connecticut’s are “the best schools in America.” Another gun control law won’t get tough on crime Connecticut shouldn’t punish formerContinue reading “‘Best schools in America’ don’t include New Haven’s”
State scorns addiction business while operating two of its own
By CHRIS POWELL Every individual and business in the news and entertainment media tries to entice an audience to return — to addict it, more or less. Meta Platforms, operator of the Facebook and Instagram social media outlets, last week agreed to pay nearly $17 billion to settle multi-state federal lawsuits charging that the companyContinue reading “State scorns addiction business while operating two of its own”
Lamont, Tong, and Elicker escape immigration queries
By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut’s laws forbidding state and municipal police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities may not be unconstitutional, as is alleged by the lawsuit brought last week against state officials by the Trump administration, but the objective of those laws is exactly what the suit alleges: to turn Connecticut into a “sanctuary state.”Continue reading “Lamont, Tong, and Elicker escape immigration queries”
At last Linda McMahon finds a school that will listen to her
By CHRIS POWELL U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon at last has found a school in Connecticut willing to listen to her. McMahon’s visit to speak at a civics program at an elementary school in Fairfield in January was canceled when parents objected and the school administration decided that public education’s usual exaltation of “diversity” doesn’tContinue reading “At last Linda McMahon finds a school that will listen to her”
Fault in paralyzed man’s case is more fairly settled at last
By CHRIS POWELL While there was plenty of negligence in the case of Randy Cox, the man who was paralyzed after his arrest by New Haven police in 2022, the court decision concluding the case’s criminal aspects suggests that the negligence really wasn’t that of the officers it was blamed on. Is there any policyContinue reading “Fault in paralyzed man’s case is more fairly settled at last”
‘Gender-affirming care’ euphemizes sex changes
By CHRIS POWELL Propaganda is often a matter of names and terminology. For as the Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan observed, if you label something well enough, you don’t have to argue with it or about it. The label itself may settle the matter politically. Illegal immigrant’s supporters celebrate lack of due process Connecticut should pushContinue reading “‘Gender-affirming care’ euphemizes sex changes”
Connecticut should push people to pull their own weight
By CHRIS POWELL Theodore Roosevelt, who in his time was considered good liberal authority, noted that the first duty of a citizen is to pull his own weight. Only then, Roosevelt said, can a citizen’s surplus strength be of use to society. Waterbury’s water disaster is a political lesson for all It’s a wonderful lifeContinue reading “Connecticut should push people to pull their own weight”
New Haven school board is frank with public: Get lost!
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!”
