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 The silly law that prohibited Sunday sales of alcohol on-site was repealed by the General Assembly in the recently completed session.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...
In a recent blog post and letter to the editor of The Lakeville Journal, I stated that the new Region 1 administrators’ contracts have “already been signed and ratified.” That statement is incorrect. By a vote of 4-2, the general terms of the new contracts were approved by the Board of Education in March...
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...
Clarification: Miles is now bellowing that the contracts have not been signed. Correct. The new contracts themselves haven’t been signed but the resolution to issue those contracts was. It was approved 4-2 and endorsed by the BOE at a March 28 special meeting on unanimous recommendation from the All Boards Committee (ABC). For those...
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,...
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...
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...
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?”
Just as a clown’s pancake make-up eventually wilts under the heat to reveal a sad sack on the verge of a breakdown, so too has the boss of our local radio station been unmasked as an emperor whose clothes (and nerves) are fraying. Veteran broadcaster Marshall Miles, who presides over the self-described “smallest NPR...
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