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Over the last 18 months, based on CDC numbers, about 466 of every 200,000 people in Connecticut have died of COVID-19. Yet, the daily average for deaths this summer from COVID is vanishingly small, given that over 80% of adults are now vaccinated.

In even greater contrast, the odds of a young person, aged 19 and under, dying of COVID has been 1 in 200,000 over the entire course of the pandemic. The odds of them committing suicide is roughly 20 times that number.

In actual numbers, not rates, 1 young person aged 10 and younger, and 3 people aged 11 to 19 have died of COVID-19 in Connecticut, according to data provided by the state medical examiner. By comparison, 11 children in Connecticut in 2019 died of abuse or neglect.

As we approach the opening of schools, it would seem clear that schools should open for normal in-person instruction with a minimum of special safety precautions. Our focus should shift to the many likely more serious threats to schoolchildren when deprived of normal education.

● Read in CT Examiner

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Public employee unions in Connecticut are insisting their members continue to have the option to work full time from home, citing environmental and legal concerns. Democratic governor Ned Lamont allowed government employees to work exclusively from home during the pandemic and is now resuming pre-pandemic guidelines that allow government employees to work from home part-time with their boss' approval. The unions are refusing to comply with the reopening plans and are demanding a new telework agreement with the government.

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Way back in March 2020, Gov. Ned Lamont asked for, and received, unprecedented emergency powers to keep residents safe from a deadly pandemic.

Remarkably, 16 months later, Democratic leaders are expected to ask for another six-month extension of the governor’s emergency authority.

There is a public-safety crisis plaguing many communities across our state, and not enough is being done to stop it. Shootings, car thefts and other neighborhood violence are on the rise, and yet the governor has failed to use his executive authority to address them.

There is a time and a place for governors to utilize their executive authority. Keeping communities, businesses and families safe from a wave of violence that is spiraling out of control should certainly be one of them.

● Read in Hearst CT Media Group

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It may not exactly be breaking news, but it turns out that people would rather have a job than votE for tax hikes on other people.

It also turns out that even limousine liberals — not all of them, mind you, but most of them — prefer a growing economy to redistributing income.

This information comes from a great new poll by “Techno-Metrica Market Intelligence,” which has been a top three accurate pollster for the last five presidential elections.

● Read in The New York Sun

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In the four months before Biden took office, illegal crossings averaged only 70,000 a month. Now, they have reached a 20-year high: 97,640 in February, the first full month of Biden’s presidency; 169,204 in March; 173,686 in April; and 172,011 in May.

A Harvard CAPS/Harris poll that was taken between June 15-17, 2021, found that 74 percent of the registered voters polled think the surge in illegal border crossings is a crisis that must be addressed immediately.

● Read in The Hill

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