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.
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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.
Connecticut is an expensive place to live. As a member of my town’s Affordable Housing Commission, I have discovered that affordable housing law, metrics and data used by the state are myth, not reality. For example, to be counted as affordable, housing must have been constructed after 1990. Thus, the apartment that my neighbor rents for $1,100 per month to a local teacher is not counted.
Ernest Lee Jahncke was one of three Americans serving as members of the International Olympic Committee. IOC President Count Henri de Baillet-Latour implored Jahncke to “convince your people that the IOC has upheld the rights of everyone concerned and that the the unanimous decision [to stage the games in Berlin] was the only wise one.” Jahncke replied, in effect, don’t give me this bull about the Olympic ideals of founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin, because “precisely [his – de Coubertin’s] devotion to this idea has caused me to do just the opposite of what you so confidently ask of me. ..[I will] do all I can to persuade my fellow Americans that they ought not to take part in the Games if they are held in Nazi Germany” and that the Nazis “are continuing to violate every requirement of fair play in the conduct of sport” and that no foreign nation could participate in the Nazi games “without at least acquiescing in the contempt of the Nazis for fair play and their sordid exploitation of the Games.”
Strong stuff. And the right stuff. But it’s the kind of stuff that gets you fired. That’s what happened to Jahncke. The IOC’s 35th Congress came in July of 1936. Rudolf Hess welcomed the delegates on behalf of the Führer. Baillet-Latour complimented himself for “keeping religion and politics out of the games.” And the IOC unanimously approved a motion that Ernest Lee Jahncke, the only American IOC member who criticized the Nazi games, be summarily expelled.
Preface by The Red Line: In a smart and forthright manner, Greenwich First Selectman Fred Camillo has written an op-ed in the fashion of a report card on progress in his town during his first year in office.
In essence an open letter, Camillo's op-ed shows due respect to the citizenry, by whom he was elected to manage the town's affairs. Other local leaders should follow his lead and his manner.
● Read Camillo's Op-Ed in Greenwich Patch
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Read, and comment on, Camillo's Op-Ed here on The Red Line
The residents of this state are tapped out. Adding another tax on top of all the other taxes we pay will do more harm than good. The TCI tax will take over $100 million per year out of Connecticut drivers’ pockets to appease a group of climate activists. The truth is that this initiative will do nothing to actually change the climate of the Earth and to think it will is foolish.