By CHRIS POWELL Hamden Mayor Adam Sendroff says the town is in “a financial crisis.” Indeed, the town long has been struggling financially. So the mayor has asked town departments to reduce their budgets by 5%. Connecticut’s minimum wage increase indicates worsening poverty ‘Affordability’ doesn’t apply to cost of state employees Mayor panders to theContinue reading “Economizing in schools is illegal; and four years of paid leave drag on”
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So where are the fathers? And town farms aren’t cruel
By CHRIS POWELL Much of the social disintegration riddling Connecticut ends up on the doorstep of the state Department of Children Families, on which is thrust responsibility for the children of irresponsible parents. The department sometimes makes mistakes, but while nearly all its mistakes are secondary to the mistakes of people who failed to takeContinue reading “So where are the fathers? And town farms aren’t cruel”
A big payday for child neglect? And not all cruelty is Trump’s
By CHRIS POWELL Everyone has heard the story about the boy who murdered his parents and then asked the court for leniency because he had become an orphan. Connecticut now has a case that goes one better. If ‘public benefits’ require deception, get rid of them Blumenthal chastises merchants who are more honest than heContinue reading “A big payday for child neglect? And not all cruelty is Trump’s”
Connecticut Democrats insist on open borders or secession
By Chris Powell Rage and indignation again are sweeping the state Capitol and the People’s Republic of New Haven, this time because the city’s “hometown airline,” Avelo, which has revived Tweed New Haven Airport, has contracted with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to fly illegal immigrants out of the country from Arizona. Rule ofContinue reading “Connecticut Democrats insist on open borders or secession”
Connecticut’s most neglected children are public-schooled, not home-schooled
By Chris Powell Connecticut has just seen another case, this time in Waterbury, of what appears to have been the horrific abuse of a child who had been withdrawn from school, supposedly to be educated at home, but who wasn’t being educated at all, just abused. Connecticut leads Trump in privatizing government Can Murphy andContinue reading “Connecticut’s most neglected children are public-schooled, not home-schooled”
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