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Republican field for 2012 is pathetic
It is no secret that President Obama is in a tough fight for re-election. He is correct in describing himself as the underdog at the present time. In an atmosphere of high unemployment, declining...
View ArticleWas the First Airplane Actually Invented in Connecticut?
There are probably people at the Smithsonian Institution who wish they hadn't bothered to hire John Brown to help them research a television documentary. Brown is a U.S.-educated Australian living in...
View ArticlePaul Newman: A Legend Dies At 83
Paul Newman was a stage actor who became a movie star. A sex symbol who celebrated 50 years of marriage with his second wife. A grieving father who turned to philanthropy after the death of his only...
View Article'Political Landscape' Photo Exhibit At State Capitol Building
Tim Coffey, a Stamford photographer, takes political animals and puts them in their natural habitats. Coffee has a new exhibit of his photographs, opening on Wednesday, Aug. 1, at the Concourse Gallery...
View ArticleRep. Terry Backer To Run For Re-election
After fighting brain cancer for more than a year, state Rep. Terry Backer said Tuesday that he will run for re-election if he keeps feeling as good as he does now. Backer, a Stratford Democrat who is...
View Article9/5/2012-New Linda
I hate the thought of Connecticut sending a Republican to the United States Senate. The last time we sent a Republican was back in 1982 when Lowell Weicker won the nod. He was still a Republican then,...
View ArticleLong Hours And Sharp Elbows
 For much of his life, Dannel Malloy has been an avid fan of hockey and rugby.    Both rough-and-tumble sports are highly physical and require quick movements, sharp elbows and fast decisions. A...
View ArticleLt. Gov. To Swear In New Haddam First Selectman
HADDAM — Newly-elected First Selectman Melissa Schlag — an environmental activist who led the campaign against a controversial land swap deal — will be sworn in Saturday in a ceremony on the Higganum...
View ArticleHoliday Tours Of Governor's Residence Begin Friday
HARTFORD – Continuing a holiday tradition, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy will open the doors for a holiday open house at the Governor's Residence starting Friday. The historic West End mansion will be...
View ArticleRepublican field for 2012 is pathetic
It is no secret that President Obama is in a tough fight for re-election. He is correct in describing himself as the underdog at the present time. In an atmosphere of high unemployment, declining...
View ArticleTom D'Amore, former state GOP chairman and Weicker aide, dies at 72
Tom D'Amore, a straight-shooting former state Republican Party chairman and a key political adviser to Republican-turned-independent Lowell Weicker, died suddenly Tuesday of a heart attack. D'Amore was...
View ArticleD'Amore's Lesson: Ideas Not Ideology
Tom D'Amore [Jan. 8, Connecticut, "Ex-State GOP Chairman D'Amore Dies"] gave me my first job in politics. I was the field director for Chairman D'Amore in 1983 for the CT GOP. Since the last 30 years...
View ArticleCall For Relevance Is An Assault On Values
Former Gov. Lowell Weicker Jr.'s op-ed "State Republicans Face Irrelevance" [Jan. 26] shows the face of what today's Connecticut politicians believe in -- expediency. Promoting and lying for what they...
View ArticleDismisses Weicker's Advice
Lowell Weicker's advice to the Connecticut Republican Party [Jan. 26, op-ed, "Weicker: State Republicans Face Irrelevance"] is his most recent contribution to Connecticut politics, and so it provides...
View ArticleCarbon Tax Could Help Republican Relevance
Lowell Weicker Jr. lays out an effective blueprint for the Republican Party to return to relevance in Connecticut [Jan. 26, op-ed, "Weicker: State Republicans Face Irrelevance"]. However, there is one...
View ArticleWeicker Is Right — State Republicans Need The Middle
Here comes Lowell Weicker again, piping the song of the open primary. It's a compelling tune, one that Mr. Weicker has hummed for years. Open primaries — in Mr. Weicker's formulation, allowing...
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