State Reps. Jeffrey A. Currey, D-East Hartford, Jillian Gilchrest, D-West Hartford, and Nicole Klarides-Ditria, R-Seymour would require schools to teach about "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual orientations and gender identities."
Gov. Ned Lamont on Jan. 26 extended his authority to unilaterally run the State of Connecticut, enacting sweeping executive orders through April 20. Republicans, in contrast, offered to approve an extension until March 1 in exchange for future declarations to be no longer than 30-day increments and voted on by the legislature.
Perhaps you've heard, a few thousand times, that the Biden Administration will listen to the science. Well, the science says schools can safely reopen, but the White House is still listening, make that bowing, to the non-scientists who run the teachers unions.
The Biden administration faces a stark reality: Over the next four years it’s possible that China will try to take Taiwan. For the first time since 1950, Beijing may reasonably think it has a viable military option to force what it regards as a renegade province to heel. President Xi Jinping has said Taiwan must be part of China—and has signaled he intends to do something about it.
The next four years are critically important for our policy on China. What’s on the line? American independence and perhaps the free world itself.
Julie Fry, a public defender, describes her political views as “left radical.” Her public-school district remained closed to in-person education, even as many neighboring districts managed to reopen.
The school district’s paralysis put Fry in an unexpected position, pitting her against many of her neighbors, as she made a divisive demand: She wanted her first-grader to go to school.
Every community has struggled with the question of whether and how to reopen classrooms. But... in Maplewood, no one would ever imagine being on the same side of an issue as Donald Trump. (Joe Biden won 90 percent of the vote here.)
Any doubt that the Biden Administration plans to slowly regulate fossil fuels out of existence vanished this week. First came the Keystone XL pipeline kill, but perhaps more significant is the 60-day freeze on new leases on federal lands and bureaucratic permitting. The pause could soon become a long-term ban.
Multiple rounds of tax increases aimed at high earners and corporations triggered an exodus from Connecticut of large employers and wealthy individuals, according to a new study published by Pioneer Institute.
As he skips the inauguration of his successor and shuffles off to his resort in Florida, has Donald Trump destroyed the Republican Party? Well, even landslide defeats in presidential elections seldom knock a major party down for long.
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Having just left the speakership of Connecticut's House of Representatives, former state Rep. Joe Aresimowicz, D-Berlin, has quickly moved into a position with a leading government relations firm.
Aresimowicz's transformation is not unusual, nor was his prior status simultaneously as legislator and employee of a government employee union.
If you’re a union member, don’t forget that this is the season that unions wrap up their end-of-year credit card summaries, which detail every expense they’ve paid out.
You have a right to see that document. This is the best tool you have as an individual member to stop fraud and misappropriation.
Every year, union workers somewhere in the country receive a belated, sheepish email with a demoralizing announcement: There’s been a financial scandal among their leadership.
