People’s Bank Arena – Chris Powell column

Let the Sun set elsewhere; we have enough basketball

By CHRIS POWELL Why are Governor Lamont and state Treasurer Erick Russell so enthusiastic about using state pension money to make state government a minority owner of the Mohegan tribe’s Connecticut Sun women’s basketball team and move it to Hartford from the tribe’s reservation in rural eastern Connecticut? Postal service remains too quaint in ConnecticutContinue reading “Let the Sun set elsewhere; we have enough basketball”

Don’t turn state pension money into a political slush fund

By CHRIS POWELL Despite some recent improvement, Connecticut’s state employee and teacher pension accounts are still underfunded by billions of dollars. Yet Governor Lamont wants to start using them as political slush funds. Connecticut Democrats divert more public money to patronage Yale has become too big for its property tax break Awful Trump is rightContinue reading “Don’t turn state pension money into a political slush fund”