Negotiate standards and there won’t be any
Should the people of Connecticut, through their elected representatives, set standards for employment in state government? Last week the General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee...
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Caught lying, at least Weicker didn’t weasel
Governor Malloy’s dissembling about the new state budget got worse this week, making him ridiculous. Last week the governor said he “fought” for the budget he proposed, the budget that pretended to...
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Powell: Cuba, the 51st state? And another carter
Only one argument is offered against President Obama’s decision to normalize diplomatic relations with Cuba — that the Cuban government is tyrannical. As the State Department’s travel guide puts it,...
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Malloy’s re-election looks like blank check
Malloy’s re-election looks like blank check Despite the huge revenue shortfall predicted for state government’s next fiscal year, Governor Malloy’s re-election is being construed as a blank check for...
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On local TV, weather is a substitution for news
While “global warming” hasn’t changed Connecticut’s climate that much, local television news here lately seems to be much less about news and more about weather. To people who try to take local TV news...
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Malloy’s ‘Democratic values’: just coddle the government class
Governor Malloy’s state budget proposal is so awful, a legislator of his own party remarked privately the other day, that the General Assembly will have to try to build a budget of its own. Even as the...
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State’s tourism campaign invents perpetual motion
Connecticut’s Department of Economic and Community Development claims to have invented a perpetual motion machine of government finance, though certain arts agencies may claim patent infringement. The...
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Statewide car tax is status quo
While they’re calling it “reform,” as they usually do, Democrats in the General Assembly are lining up behind another plan to increase taxes and thereby help relieve Governor Malloy of his campaign...
View ArticleProperty tax relief is just a euphemism for raises
Democrats on the General Assembly’s Finance, Revenue, and Bonding Committee think they have the solution to state government’s budget difficulties — just raise taxes another billion dollars per year,...
View ArticleAt UConn, list donors and try growing up
Does the University of Connecticut surreptitiously give favors to people who donate to the UConn Foundation? Is that why the university wants to keep concealing the identities of most donors?...
View ArticleNegotiate standards and there won’t be any
Should the people of Connecticut, through their elected representatives, set standards for employment in state government? Last week the General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee...
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Caught lying, at least Weicker didn’t weasel
Governor Malloy’s dissembling about the new state budget got worse this week, making him ridiculous. Last week the governor said he “fought” for the budget he proposed, the budget that pretended to...
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