Yesterday morning, Yankee Institute president Carol Platt Liebau was a guest on WATR-Waterbury’s “Talk of the Town” with Larry Rifkin (and she’ll be joining Pastor Will on WTIC tomorrow). One of the most interesting parts of the discussion focused on the growing sense — across Connecticut and the nation as a ...
It’s the kind of information that’s released on a summer Friday — when no one’s supposed to be paying attention — for a reason. After all the self-congratulation about how well Connecticut’s version of ObamaCare is “working,” it’s profoundly alarming to learn that a backpack was found containing the personal information of 400 people . ...
Hartford is a city plagued with a variety of public policy problems — not least the misuse of city funds and other financial mismanagement. And it’s afflicted by a host of urban ills — including a poverty rate second only to Detroit (as of 2012) and the highest unsolved homicide rate (45%) of New England’s seven ...
Just last Friday, Connecticut’s junior US Senator, Chris Murphy, proposed a hike in the federal gas tax, insisting it could be used for the repair of Connecticut’s infrastructure. No doubt infrastructure is important — one of government’s true, legitimate tasks. After all, it’s hard for people to go about their business, ...
Once again, the government class in Hartford is looking after its own. In the wake of the governor’s nomination of two new 66-year-old judges (along with some other nominees in their sixties), there was some well-deserved bipartisan outrage. That’s because, in under four years, those two judges would enter mandatory ...
Everyone knows that Connecticut’s pension system has some serious unfunded liabilities. But state employee pension rules need more than fiscal reform. In a new outrage, a UConn music professor — who has been confronted by serious allegations of child abuse — has just retired with an annual pension of $68,640, courtesy of ...