Let’s leave the Nazi comparisons where they belong - to history. In an example of historical ignorance or political lunacy, Michael Hayden recently fired off a tweet blasting the Trump administration for removing the children of illegal immigrants from their…
Posted: 21 June 2018 [09:32 PM] Posted: 21 June 2018 [09:30 PM] Within living memory there was frequent passenger railroad service north and south out of Hartford, and the railroad company, the New York, New Haven, and Hartford, known simply as the New Haven, was as famous as any. Thanks to Hartford-born…
Posted: 21 June 2018 [09:28 PM] The Washington Post It is fitting that President Donald Trump has been forced into retreat by babies. Cruelty should never be mistaken for strength. Trump’s own confusion on that point was evident on Wednesday, as he announced that he would…
Posted: 21 June 2018 [09:27 PM] The Washington Post The controversy over race and admissions at elite educational institutions is heating up. Harvard University is under pressure to stop discriminating against Asian-Americans, who make up a smaller percentage of its student body (22.2 percent) than their…
Posted: 20 June 2018 [07:07 PM] By To The Editor: I read with interest the comments of Ramon Esponda, New Britain’s Acting Deputy Director of Public Works-Utilities Division, in response to the Water Plannning Council’s finding that the Lenard…
Posted: 20 June 2018 [07:06 PM] They say no good deed goes unpunished. But what if the deeds weren’t good at all? The New York attorney general’s office is no stranger to going after charities that have behaved badly. But current Attorney General Barbara Underwood’s extensive,…
Posted: 20 June 2018 [07:03 PM] At this time of the year, drivers are accustomed to hearing the plea “drive safely and defensively.” Of course, that reminder is appropriate every day of the year. But information contained in a June 1 Wall Street Journal article adds…
Posted: 20 June 2018 [07:02 PM] I recently noticed a string of interesting news stories, all with the same theme. Domino’s Pizza is donating money to 20 U.S. cities, to be used for fixing potholes and cracked roads. Salesforce has donated $1.5 million to reduce homelessness…
Posted: 20 June 2018 [07:00 PM] The Washington Post The latest policy proclamation from President Donald Trump: “We are going to have the Air Force and we are going to have the ‘Space Force’ - separate but equal, it is going to be something so important.”…
Posted: 19 June 2018 [06:57 PM] By: Michael Reagan You wonder why Fox News is Number One in cable? It’s because CNN, MSNBC, NBC and the rest are so relentlessly negative about Donald Trump they force people to watch Fox to find out…
Posted: 19 June 2018 [06:56 PM] By: The Washington Post Hardly a day goes by in which President Donald Trump fails to call the Russia probe a “witch hunt.” Yet barely less frequent are the reminders of his damaged credibility on the subject.…
Posted: 19 June 2018 [06:55 PM] By: The Providence Journal Two much-admired celebrities took their lives this month, a stark reminder that emotional pain isn’t bound by class, fame or wealth. It can disable anyone among us, persuading us that our lives aren’t…
Posted: 19 June 2018 [06:53 PM] By: William Wixon, Kensington To The Editor: Everyone knows and realizes that our state government is in a downward spiral of financial disaster. Why is this happening? In simple terms, spend more than you receive. The submissive…
Posted: 19 June 2018 [06:51 PM] By: The Washington Post President Donald Trump’s policies at America’s southern border are cruel and unnecessary. This is widely recognized: Many Republicans are now among those objecting to the measures. For once, the president needs to heed…
Posted: 18 June 2018 [07:05 PM] By: The Washington Post In an era when e-books and new forms of entertainment have threatened to drive down library use, public libraries are increasingly looking to modernize and innovate. Some have turned to e-books or digital…
Posted: 18 June 2018 [07:03 PM] For former Clinton campaign staff like me, the Justice Department Inspector General’s report on the Clinton email investigation is an experience of frustrating vindication and mouth-dropping irony. It is somewhat satisfying to see the inquiry conclude that James Comey “clearly…
Posted: 18 June 2018 [07:01 PM] By the dawn of the 20th century, when the first humans set foot on Antarctica’s seemingly pristine ice cap, pollution had beaten them there. Lead and other heavy metals quickly amassed in the ice in 1888 and beyond, leaving a…
Posted: 18 June 2018 [07:00 PM] By: The Washington Post Like all drug scourges, the fentanyl epidemic that claims so many lives on a daily basis is a matter of supply and demand. The demand, alas, is made in America. The supply, by…
Posted: 17 June 2018 [09:15 PM] The horrific scenes from a South Florida nursing home, where 12 residents perished in the sweltering heat after Hurricane Irma knocked out power to the facility, will haunt Floridians for a long time to come. But the broad, sweeping rules…
Posted: 17 June 2018 [09:14 PM] Columnist Underneath the sudden controversy between Governor Dannel Malloy and teachers over school discipline is the failure of government policy to diminish family poverty. No good will come of the discipline controversy because this underlying problem cannot be officially discussed.…
Posted: 17 June 2018 [09:12 PM] The Washington Post By Jennifer Rubin Frustrated by his Republican colleagues’ refusal to vote on his amendment to roll back President Donald Trump’s tariffs, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., fessed up on Wednesday: “We’re in a strange place. It’s becoming a…
Posted: 17 June 2018 [09:12 PM] The Supreme Court on Monday upheld an Ohio law that allows state officials to purge voters from voter registration lists for dubious reasons. This is now a case of the law permitting one thing and common sense recommending another. Just…
Posted: 15 June 2018 [08:21 PM] By: Sean Sullivan, Berlin To The Editor: The pressing issue of gun violence in schools and on campuses around the country is currently being addressed by United States legislators, and with the community’s support, can get…
Posted: 15 June 2018 [08:18 PM] By: Marie Gigliotti, New Britain To The Editor: Our representatives have done much to improve foreign aid, including supporting acts that treat preventable diseases in other countries, as well as other legislations of that kind.…
Posted: 15 June 2018 [08:16 PM] Ominous headlines have dominated the news since Donald Trump was elected president. A parade of unprecedented events, ranging from trade wars to mind-bending changes in the western alliances, have many on edge. But not investors. If there is a single…
Posted: 15 June 2018 [08:14 PM] WASHINGTON - One of the costs of the Trump Era is that all opinions become suspect because, even more than usual, everything is seen through the prism of whether you are for or against the president. Consequently, criticism of Trump…
Posted: 15 June 2018 [08:13 PM] By: The Washington Post Over the past couple of days, President Donald Trump has made a number of false statements regarding North Korea and his summit meeting with its leader, Kim Jong Un. Some of these may…
Posted: 14 June 2018 [07:05 PM] In “Lysistrata,” the smash-hit musical of 411 B.C., Artistophanes turned antiwar politics into sexy comedy, which gives an idea of just how long dramatists have been milling fine plays from heavy issues. In New York today, theater patrons can experience…
Posted: 14 June 2018 [07:03 PM] By: The Washington Post The seizure of phone and email records from a reporter for the New York Times, Ali Watkins, raises serious questions. In the previous administration, Justice Department guidelines were published to guard against overreach…
Posted: 14 June 2018 [07:01 PM] My 84-year-old father still asks me why I did it. The “incident,” as my family refers to it, dates back to 1973, when my father remodeled our basement into a family room. The project included a small bathroom, which would…
Posted: 14 June 2018 [07:01 PM] They come less and less frequently now, because fewer and fewer of their subjects remain. With the youngest now in their 90s, obituaries of the World War II generation strike some of us with a special poignancy. They evoke thoughts…
Posted: 13 June 2018 [07:47 PM] The world has heard it again and again - heartfelt, ringing pledges by Pope Francis and his predecessors that the Vatican, at long last, has gotten the message on the global epidemic of clerical sex abuse. These often have been…
Posted: 13 June 2018 [07:46 PM] All four of the candidates for the Republican nomination for governor who participated the other night at a forum in New Haven struck satisfactory poses against raising taxes and imposing tolls. The four -- Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton,…
Posted: 13 June 2018 [07:45 PM] The United States is a country dominated by grumpy old white men. Instead of yelling at kids to get off their lawn or to turn down the music, they yell at women, immigrants, foreign leaders and anyone else who wants…
Posted: 12 June 2018 [09:33 PM] To The Editor: While Chris Powell’s columns usually contain some good insights into state government, his column of Monday May 14 missed the mark by a wide margin. In that column he callously equates requiring genocide studies in public schools…
Posted: 12 June 2018 [07:33 PM] Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un didn’t agree on anything of global importance, and the grandiose photo opportunity that took place in Singapore probably benefited Kim more than it did Trump. But the beauty of the moment is…
Posted: 12 June 2018 [07:32 PM] New York’s top cocktail bars are facing something of a crisis. A fashionable global protest movement has nightlife venues scrambling to replace their plastic straws with more sustainable alternatives, such as paper ones, on the theory that doing…
Posted: 12 June 2018 [07:31 PM] “There’s A special place in hell” for leaders such as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said on “Fox News Sunday.” This, as President Donald Trump was about to sit down with the…
Posted: 12 June 2018 [07:29 PM] Maine’s soaring rate of chronic absenteeism points to the need for early and individualized intervention. Butch Pratt, longtime truancy officer for the Lewiston school district, writes down his number and a note to leave on the door of…
Posted: 11 June 2018 [09:27 PM] Days after the suicide of renowned fashion designer Kate Spade, chef and world-traveling TV storyteller Anthony Bourdain was found dead in a hotel room in France, another apparent suicide. Spade was 55, Bourdain was 61, and the tragedy of their…
Posted: 11 June 2018 [09:24 PM] The Washington Post WASHINGTON - Charles Krauthammer, a man who has beaten unbelievable odds and overcome obstacles that would defeat most mortals, has finally encountered one foe over which he says he can’t claim victory. In a note to readers…
Posted: 11 June 2018 [09:24 PM] The Washington Post By Max Boot Shortly after Donald Trump won the South Carolina primary in February 2016, I warned in an article co-written with economist Benn Steil that “a Trump presidency threatens the post-World War II liberal international…
Posted: 11 June 2018 [09:22 PM] Columnist Dear Granddaddy, Why do people have to bully? Janice. – An angry high school student. Janice, I don’t blame you for a single second about being indignant. Everyone should be well…
Posted: 11 June 2018 [09:21 PM] We all should be concerned and a bit alarmed that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the much-followed “cakeshop” case, siding with the bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple in 2012. In Masterpiece Cakeshop…
Posted: 10 June 2018 [09:10 PM] By To The Editor: The Plainville Town Council is asking voters and eligible taxpayers to support the replacement of two fire trucks at a referendum to be held on June 19th. The appropriation is to…
Posted: 10 June 2018 [09:08 PM] “An interesting concept.” That was the wry observation by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., to the disclosure that the federal commission on school safety established in response to the Parkland, Florida, high school massacre will study gun violence without actually looking…
Posted: 10 June 2018 [09:07 PM] All the sugar that is ever going to be in maple syrup - real maple syrup - is there when the sap runs off the tree on a warm spring day. So why would it ever need a label saying…
Posted: 10 June 2018 [09:05 PM] When I watched Bill Clinton’s appearance on the “Today” a promotional stop that turned into an unexpected reckoning with #MeToo, one thing leaped out at me: The former president wouldn’t say Monica Lewinsky’s name. It didn’t seem possible. I watched…
Posted: 10 June 2018 [09:04 PM] In my experience, the study’s findings are true. According to The Washington Post, the Vancouver School of Economics and McGill University have determined that people who live in rural areas and small towns are happier than those who live in…
Posted: 08 June 2018 [09:05 PM] America’s economy is in robust condition, as new Labor Department data showing unemployment at 3.8 percent confirms. America’s long-term finances, however, are not in such good shape, as another federal report, this one out Tuesday from the trustees…
