Click here for my latest for CT News Junkie. I really do think the 5th-district congressional debate Monday in Torrington contained a few surprises. Most of them, however, had less to do with policy than with style: If I’d told you before this week’s 5th-district GOP congressional debate that John Rowland, the crooked ex-governor,...
Click here and here for my latest for CT News Junkie. I had two pieces this week: a primer on Connecticut’s 5th congressional district and an analysis of the 5th district Democratic candidates’ debate Saturday in Cornwall. Hence the headline “All CT05 All The Time.” CT05 is unique in our state in that it’s...
Click here for my latest for CT News Junkie: “Two upstart northeastern governors of opposite parties have been called bullies. They’re very competitive and both are fighting uphill battles against the education establishment. Care to guess who I’m talking about?”
Click here for my latest at CTNewsJunkie.com. Should the state investigate the possibility of implanting radio frequency identification (RFID) devices on motor vehicles at the point of registration? It has been dubbed “Little Brother” to another proposal to install red-light cameras to catch scofflaws who roll through intersections. As a sometime privacy advocate, I...
Update: An agreement has been reached. * * * * * Click here for my latest for CTNewsJunkie. If the state of Connecticut approves an upcoming merger between two electrical utility giants, consumers could actually be the winners. Not politicians, not corporations but average ratepayers like you and me. Methinks the system is working....
Click here for my latest for CT News Junkie. At our recent CTNJ editorial board meeting at the Capitol with Gov. Malloy, I managed to steer the conversation away from education to more important subjects like liquor sales reform, gas taxes and road tolls. How would his liquor sales reform proposal actually create jobs?...
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.
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.
Click here for my latest for CTNewsJunkie. We have two education-related stories in Connecticut that share some common points: e.g. there’s something wrong with the status quo.
Click here for my latest column for CTNewsJunkie.com. Gov. Malloy has come up with a rough sketch of his vision of education reform, a subject he has promised to focus on in his second year. He has offered no specifics, so in the spirit of curiosity, I have some rather pointed questions for him....
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