Chris Powell has written about Connecticut government and politics for many years. He worked for the Journal Inquirer in Manchester, Connecticut, and its predecessor weekly newspapers in Rockville and South Windsor from 1967 to 2023, 18 of those years as editorial page editor and 44 as managing editor. He long has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information. He can be reached at cpowell@cox.net. Unless otherwise noted, all content here is Copyright 2025 and earlier by Chris Powell. Use the mechanism at the bottom right side of the home page to subscribe. It's free.
By Chris Powell As the first woman to get tenure as a professor at Yale Law School, the first woman appointed to Connecticut’s Supreme Court, and the state’s first woman chief justice, Ellen Ash Peters must have had something going for her. But the tributes offered for her last week after her death at ageContinue reading “Praise late chief justice but not for Sheff case”
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