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”
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Democrats would abolish public control of schools
By Chris Powell In Connecticut it’s nearly impossible for municipal school boards to fire teachers, and Democratic state legislators have set about to make it even harder. ‘Rule of law’ advocates have many blind spots Connecticut Public isn’t public about its salaries Connecticut fails to notice that poverty is exploding The Connecticut Mirror’s Jessika Harkay reports that theContinue reading “Democrats would abolish public control of schools”
Cheng scandal suggests that higher education needs scrutiny
By Chris Powell Apparently the nearly half-million-dollar severance award for the chancellor of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities System is so outrageous that even Democratic state legislators can acknowledge the scandal. But their acknowledgment is just for show, for none of them will actually do anything about it. Immigration law enforcement shocks Connecticut’s nullifiersContinue reading “Cheng scandal suggests that higher education needs scrutiny”
‘Mean’ is not an argument in transgender controversy
By CHRIS POWELL According to the leader of the Democratic majority in the state Senate, Norwalk’s Bob Duff, Republican legislators are “mean” for proposing legislation to prevent boys from participating in girls’ sports when the boys think of themselves as girls. Rent control won’t build the housing Connecticut needs Homelessness, mental illness invite a ‘townContinue reading “‘Mean’ is not an argument in transgender controversy”
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