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Readers Set the Record Straight

By Red Jahncke on Mar. 27, 2021

Joe Markley, Ed Dadakis and Dan Quigley have sent letters to the editor to set the record straight about state employee compensation in response to attacks by state employee union apologists upon columns on The Red Line. The Red Line is grateful to Messrs. Markley, Dadakis and Quigley for their defense of fact-based journalism.

Hartford is a Mess. Defend Local Control.

By Red Jahncke on Mar. 17, 2021

Hartford is a Mess. Defend Local Control.

Give it to Connecticut Democrats. They never give up. They are determined to diminish local government to a status of virtual triviality in the name of progressivism and in their unquenchable thirst for ever more state tax revenue.

A National Pandemic of Charges of Racism Runs Into the Facts in a Spirited Defense of Greenwich, CT
By Beth MacGillivray, Greenwich Free Press, Apr. 12, 2021 - Post on Apr. 13, 2021

Walking down Greenwich Avenue on any weekend, I have heard people speaking French, Russian, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, and English with a British accent. Our Town is a virtual melting pot of diversity.
The US Census provides data showing that Greenwich has become more racially and ethnically diverse over the years, with the minority school population reaching 38% in the latest census.

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CEO’s Selective Virtue Signalling
By Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal, Apr. 8, 2021 - Posted on Apr. 9, 2021

Major League Baseball’s offices are located in Manhattan and the commissioner, a native of Rome, N.Y., lives in the Empire State. Why is that relevant? Georgia has no-excuse absentee voting by mail, but New York state doesn’t. In neighboring Connecticut only voters who are in the military, ill, absent, disabled, have religious objections or are working at the polls can vote by mail.
Consistency isn’t the goal, the goal is virtue signaling.

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