Lately, Gov. Ned Lamont has appeared like Moses descending from Mount Sinai with God’s commandments in the Mel Brooks comedy, History of the World Part 1 – except he’s carrying toll proposals. In the film,
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In the new horror film Bird Box, Sandra Bullock must navigate a post-apocalyptic world blind-folded so as not to see inter-dimensional creatures so horrifying they drive normal people insane. The film has inspired the best
In a classic Saturday Night Live skit, Will Ferrell played a goofy George W. Bush and debated Darrell Hammond as a boring, one-note Al Gore in the lead up to the 2000 Presidential Election. When
**Spoiler alert (if you actually care about that sort of thing)** In the 2017 film, Going Out in Style, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin play a group of retirees who rob the bank
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin beat out Connecticut’s Dannel Malloy as the least popular governor in the country, according to Morning Consult’s most recent survey. Fallin’s popularity plummeted, beating out Malloy by three percentage points for
The steady drumbeat for “regionalism” in Connecticut rests on the premise that if government costs too much — if the people are overtaxed and underserved — the best solution is either more government or conscripting
The Supreme Court’s decision in the Janus v. AFSCME case on Wednesday brought politicians out of the woodwork to declare they stand with government unions — even as Connecticut’s SEBAC contract continues to strangle their
In conceding that a House vote on a tolls bill would likely not happen this year, House Speaker Joe Arsimowicz said, “When you have people that want to paint the picture that Connecticut sucks at
A light-hearted “Toll Troll” demonstration by Yankee Institute at the Capitol on Tuesday drew media attention and ire of House leadership. Seventy-two cardboard cut-outs of little troll monsters — each symbolizing an electronic toll gantry —
Suzanne Bates wrote that it’s hard to be a conservative in Connecticut in an op-ed for the Hartford Courant, but it’s probably even harder to be a conservative government union member in Connecticut. Last week,
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