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Mourning Joe: Losing Lieberman, We Lose a Principled Independent Apr. 02, 2024
In the summer of 1997, the Republican-controlled Senate Governmental Affairs Committee was investiga... Read More
Remington Settlement Sends Message That Victims Have Rights, Too Feb. 17, 2022
For decades, gun-industry defenders have advanced the myth that guns don't kill people. Sure, a gun ... Read More
Family Concerned Real Estate Agent Undersold Mom's Home to a Relative Dec. 28, 2021
Dear Monty: If I wanted to check to find out if a real estate agent sold a house to a relative, whic... Read More
Republicans Gain Big in Blue-Collar Elections But Narrowly in Affluent State Legislative Elections Oct. 22, 2021
State legislative special elections provide an interesting index of partisan sentiment these days. T... Read More
Same Names, Different Towns Dec. 13, 2020
By Victor Block An Eiffel Tower sporting a cowboy hat on top. Two places named Berlin, neither of th... Read More
Explore Mystic Seaport's Ties to the Sea May. 03, 2020
By Steve Bergsman Walter Cronkite, who was the dean of American television journalism and often refe... Read More
Philip Johnson: Man in a Glass House Mar. 22, 2020
By Steve Bergsman In 1967 a large crowd of people gathered on the lawn of architect Philip Johnson's... Read More
A Long Day's Journey to Eugene O'Neill Mar. 21, 2020
By Steve Bergsman My quest to visit with the ghost of American playwright Eugene O'Neill was almost ... Read More
Are the Racists on Viral Videos Mentally Ill? Mar. 21, 2019
Most everyone who spends time on social media has come across videos in which a white person is scre... Read More
Making Childhood Legal Mar. 07, 2019
Do kids have the right to go outside and play, ride their bikes and goof around on their own, withou... Read More
The Four States of the Apocalypse Feb. 26, 2019
"This is the flip side (of) tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich. The rich leave, and now what d... Read More
Low Taxes Are the Best Sweetheart Deal Feb. 20, 2019
Ever since Amazon's breakup with New York on Valentine's Day, dejected Mayor Bill De Blasio is compl... Read More
Goodbye, Poppy. You Were Never One of Us. Dec. 05, 2018
The late George H.W. Bush was the man's man of his blessed generation, a Connecticut Yankee who star... Read More
Five Midterm Races That Matter Most Nov. 06, 2018
I've been arguing for months that the ideal outcome in the midterm elections to set up Donald Trump ... Read More
Will Blue States Go for Trumponomics? Oct. 31, 2018
In a contest too close to call, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski is running to sla... Read More
Kelo's Demolished 'Little Pink House' Stands as a Monument to Injustice Apr. 26, 2018
The United States is supposed to be the "land of the free," a country where individualism and privat... Read More
Are Illinois & Puerto Rico Our Future? Jun. 27, 2017
If Gov. Bruce Rauner and his legislature in Springfield do not put a budget together by Friday, the ... Read More
Blame the Spendaholics, Not Tax Reformers Apr. 26, 2017
If you live in tax hell — New York, Illinois, California, New Jersey or Connecticut — pa... Read More
States Are Going Broke Because They Broke the Bank Feb. 28, 2017
Governors and state legislators say they are running out of money again, and many are demanding tax ... Read More
Bad Teacher Protection Racket Sep. 14, 2016
Bad teachers. We've all had one. A Connecticut judge is ordering the state to stop spending money on... Read More
