For the first time since anyone can remember, this Sunday Connecticut residents won’t have to travel out of state to pick up a bottle of booze or a six-pack of beer. The silly law that prohibited Sunday sales of alcohol on-site was repealed by the General Assembly in the recently completed session. Hallelujah! I’m...
On this Mother’s Day, nothing will make me happier than to hold forth on two columns about abortion. I know that sounds foolish, given the fact that abortion is a highly unsettling issue that hardly lends itself to a celebration of motherhood. But if you want to see an example of how mother and...
Much like that fever blister I had on my lip last month, Johnny Rowland just won’t go away. The disgraced ex-governor, driven from office in 2004 and into federal prison on a corruption conviction, hungered for redemption after his release. So he mostly behaved like an exemplary ex-con, wearing an ankle-bracelet monitor and speaking...
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,...
As I observed in my latest column for CT News Junkie, Gov. Malloy is often compared to chief executives of neighboring states (e.g. New York’s Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey’s Chris Christie). But in Gov. Malloy’s insistence on action in the realm of education reform, I see some similarities with President Obama’s insistence on...
What would we do without Dick Blumenthal? Just when we thought we’d gotten rid of him — banished from Hartford and consigned to the polished halls of the U.S. Capitol — Blumenthal reminds us why his camera-mugging tenure as the state’s attorney general was so profoundly irritating. In the state of Connecticut, where they...
There’s an old quote about keeping quiet and being thought the fool rather than opening one’s mouth and removing all doubt. For Democrats in Connecticut’s 5th congressional district who want to keep that seat out of Republican hands, Chris Donovan is the walking, talking embodiment of Shelley’s maxim. Since announcing his run for Congress...
Click on the image above to see my recent appearance on the Hartford Online Radio Network. Host Brian Parker interviewed analyst Jennifer Just and me about our impressions of Brian’s interview with state Rep. William Tong, who is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Joe Lieberman. You can find...
It is quite a sight. Lawmakers in Hartford are holding marathon hearings on Gov. Dannel Malloy’s education reform proposals. Interested parties — the education establishment, families and the governor’s people — are lining up to weigh in on perhaps the biggest battle over a public policy issue since Lowell Weicker rammed through a state...
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...
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