As part of the newly formed CT News Junkie editorial board, I participated on Friday evening in a wide-ranging interview with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy in his Capitol office. Questions about education occupied the greater portion of the interview, but I asked the governor about his liquor sales reform proposal, the budget and the...
People talk all the time about what cushy jobs teachers have. But how about the position of editorial cartoonist? There are few jobs in the world in which the employee can insult anyone he wants with near-impunity. Yet that’s what The Hartford Courant’s Bob Englehart does on a weekly basis — or, since he’s...
Click here for my latest for CTNewsJunkie.com. What are we to make of Gov. Malloy’s regular appearances on cable television? Will we be seeing Malloy For President lawn signs in 2016? Will Morning Joe still around by then? See the column. There’s a lively discussion going on in the comment thread.
I hadn’t noticed until yesterday, but about a week ago yet another piece appeared in a national publication that confirmed what I’ve always suspected about President Obama: The man is either unable or unwilling to build the kinds of personal relationships necessary for good governance. As I pointed out on this blog just before...
Lunchtime thoughts: Fresh off his smashing victory in the Florida primary, Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney committed the most delicious of gaffes. To borrow a construct from Michael Kinsley, Romney told the truth. In the process, he wandered into dangerous territory. In an interview this morning with CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, Romney said: “I’m not concerned...
What is more contemptible? Being a bully or pretending to play the role of victim? In the case of Marshall Miles, president of Sharon’s NPR affiliate, you can have your cake and pig out on it, too. Miles is in high dudgeon over ethical allegations lodged against him by Diane Goncalves, an assistant superintendent...
Click here for my latest for CTNewsJunkie. It has to be the most overused and annoying word in the public discourse. Secretary of the State Denise Merrill seems to think those potential voters who haven’t bothered to register are “disenfranchised.” I think they’re just lazy and/or cynical.
To all who insist that raising taxes necessarily results in higher revenues, we have this. Connecticut’s surplus, announced with great fanfare only a few weeks ago, has disappeared practically overnight. $83 million has suddenly become a paltry $1.4 million — and even that is likely to vanish and vault us into the red. This...
Update: Here is Jordan’s post that includes reader responses, including yours truly’s. * * * * * I recently spotted an item on Jordan Fenster’s fine blog, CT State Politics, noting that he’d received a campaign letter from front-running Democrat Chris Donovan, the current state House Speaker vying to be the Democratic nominee for...
I’m a longtime layman-observer of the Supreme Court of the United States. There’s nothing that gets the intellectual juices flowing for me like a compelling case before the high court. The latest source of fascination is last week’s unanimous decision that a teacher in a church-run school could not sue her employer for discrimination under the...
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