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March 16, 2010

Editorials

Tolls the best solution

 March 16, 2010

The Connecticut Department of Transportation began the year by announcing that projects vital to maintaining a healthy highway system and economy in southeastern Connecticut - widening Interstate 95, adding a second span to the Mohegan Pequot...

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Incentive to nab yakkers, texters

 March 16, 2010

Giving police a carrot along with the stick may help reduce Connecticut's distracted-driver problems.

Despite ample evidence that proves talking on a cell phone while driving is dangerous, and texting is tantamount to inviting a crash,...

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This time, GOP is picking wrong fight

 March 15, 2010

Republicans may be able to score political points by digging in against health care reform legislation. Only time will tell. But they are making a big mistake if they come to the defense of Wall Street and block legislation intended to repair...

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Good and bad of tea party movement

 March 14, 2010

The angers and fears that fed the tea party movement are genuine. When people who normally monitor politics only from afar begin earnestly organizing fellow citizens to their cause, take up protest signs and confront their elected...

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Repealing NL rule will help curb costs

 March 13, 2010

It's apparent New London voters have gotten change in city government. After voters unfastened city Democrats' longtime majority lock on the City Council by splintering its membership between Republicans, Democrats and a single Green Party candidate...

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Op-Ed

Now it's about Iraq for the Iraqis

Iraq is the country that refuses to die: Saddam Hussein tried to break his people by torture and poison gas, but he failed. America arrogantly mismanaged the first years of its occupation and nearly triggered a civil war, but the Iraqis held on.

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This tea party activist isn't afraid to boil the kettle

Bob MacGuffie, one of the authors of the "Declaration of Tea Party Independence," is not new to taking controversial stands.
Last summer MacGuffie gained national attention with his "Rock...

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Tea party flexes its muscle in state that launched Obama

Republican Terry Branstad's lines have a familiar ring as he campaigns to return to the governor's office in Iowa after 11 years away. He blasts the incumbent Democrat for "mismanagement," promising an "economic...

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Reader replies to editorial "STD a crisis NL and Groton cannot ignore"

ABSTINENCE WORKS "There was a study that demonstrated incredible results for an abstinence-only program that was nonjudgmental and objective in nature. Other modalities of instruction - including what is probably...

The time is now to restore hope to D.C. students, Mr. President

When President Obama signed a $450 billion spending bill in December, his signature effectively dismantled a small, successful education program benefiting low-income children in the nation's capital. This week, a bipartisan coalition led by Sen.

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Making of A Movement

A member of the Connecticut 2nd District Tea Party Patriots recently e-mailed the publisher of The Day concerned "that everyone is trying to define what the tea party movement is," but often not correctly. In this Perspective, you'll find a link to the "Declaration of Tea Party Independence," as well as an interview with the man who helped write it.

Letters

U.S. chief justice shows his strong backbone

I have several issues with the recent letter titled

Why waste time and energy on tea party?

Why is the news media - The Day included - so obsessed with the tea party movement? The movement, which in actual numbers...

OK to health care bill will cost seniors dearly

Based on recent correspondence from Rep. Joe Courtney, he is ready to vote for the health care bill currently approved...

We can learn lessons from apartment fire

While the images of the recent Willetts Avenue apartment fire in New London are still fresh in our minds, we should speak...

New London in good hands with Mayor Pero

I am a lifelong Democrat and I support the current mayor in New London, Rob Pero. Mayor Pero is for the people and he...

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The return of the Peeps contest

Once again this year, The Day is running its Peeps competition, in which we invite you to take Easter's favorite candy – Peeps – and turn them into art.

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Guest Opinions

Health rule causes 'bad blood'

I just returned from a Rhode Island Blood Center mobile unit, in Westerly, where I tried to do the right thing by donating blood as I...

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Bipartisanship, the burden of proof, and the dissenters

People are again complaining about partisanship in Washington D.C., believing it to be self-serving and to cause undesirable legislative...

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What's in a name? A couple of modest suggestions

New London has a waterfront park. It's called the Waterfront Park. While accurate, no one burned the midnight oil coming up with that one. It's a...

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