By CHRIS POWELL Fifty-six years ago Alfred M. Bingham of Salem, an elderly liberal lawyer and author with a national reputation whose father had been a U.S. senator from Connecticut in the 1920s, sought the Democratic nomination for Congress from eastern Connecticut. Bingham didn’t get the nomination but unlike many candidates he tried to thinkContinue reading “Can eastern Connecticut get ready in time for its future?”
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Murphy smears an industry on which his state depends
By Chris Powell To hear Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy tell it, President Trump dispatched Air Force bombers and Navy submarines to destroy Iran’s nuclear bomb-making facilities because the “war industry” is so influential in Washington. Democrats think Trump is a worse enemy than Iran If only Connecticut Democrats hated crime as much as gunContinue reading “Murphy smears an industry on which his state depends”
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