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Waste not, want not pays off

 February 10, 2012

Before 1980 Connecticut residents out for a roadside stroll often waded through a sea of cans and bottles tossed thoughtlessly by motorists either too lazy or too stupid to dispose of their refuse properly.

That year the state passed the...

Fiscal honesty key to governor's vision

 February 9, 2012

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy opened the legislative session with an inspiring speech calling for an "economic revival" in the state, a revival that is built on making Connecticut a world leader in bioscience research and development and high-tech...

No accounting for police custody homicide

 February 8, 2012

It has been a week since the Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General announced the startling and troubling news that a grand jury in that state declined to return any indictments against Westerly police officers in the apparent beating death...

Obama should amend birth-control order

 February 7, 2012

If the Obama administration's goal was to come up with a policy decision that in one fell swoop could reinforce the worst fears about the Affordable Care Act, while at the same time damaging the president's re-election chances in some key toss-up...

Process left our "Texas District" intact

 February 6, 2012

We know someone who lived in Barkhamsted, up in the northwest hills, for many years and voted in the Sixth Congressional District until the 2000 Census determined Connecticut no longer had enough people to be allowed six seats in...

Food stamps feed unfortunate need

 February 5, 2012

Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker and candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, dismissively refers to the current occupant of the White House as the "food stamp president."

"The fact is that more people have been put on...

Super Sunday means Conn. houses divided

 February 4, 2012

While the teams will play Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis, Connecticut may be the place that has seen more trash talking, friendly and not-so-friendly wagers, tales of past glories and arguments over coming results than any other state in the...

Time for Stonington to learn FOI lesson

 February 3, 2012

A town should realize it has a serious problem when an attorney, well paid to provide legal advice on handling requests for public information, is doing such a poor job that a Freedom of Information Commission attorney takes the extraordinary...

Dealing with sexual abuse at CGA

 February 2, 2012

Problems involving sexual offenses have perpetually plagued many institutions - the family, schools, the church, the workplace - and the military often faces additional challenges when trying to deal effectively with the issue because of...

City should find common ground with NAACP

 February 1, 2012

It was distressing to see representatives of the Connecticut chapter of the NAACP emerge from a meeting with New London Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio and members of his administration complaining of arrogant treatment and offering no hint...

Potential for sea change in energy policy

 January 31, 2012

Experienced mariners navigating through eastern Long Island Sound are well advised to steer away from the notoriously treacherous Plum Gut off Orient Point and The Race off Fishers Island during peak ebb and flood, when extraordinarily...

Ledyard's costly but necessary legal battle

 January 30, 2012

The town of Ledyard has had a love-hate relationship with Foxwoods Resort Casino ever since one of the world's largest gambling operations opened in February 1992.

On one hand many residents welcome the thousands of jobs, top entertainment...

Don't choke Clean Elections in the cradle

 January 29, 2012

It's only January, but the Republican presidential race is already Exhibit A for much that is wrong with our political campaign system. Every state that holds a primary is flooded with campaign ads from murky interest groups bent on smearing...

Stonington must distance itself from Haberek case

 January 28, 2012

A Pawcatuck woman's claim that Stonington First Selectman Ed Haberek sent her sexually graphic photos of himself using his town-issued BlackBerry is reminiscent of the situation involving former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner.

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Katz slowly moves DCF toward reform

 January 27, 2012

Soon after accepting the governor's offer to head the Department of Children and Families, Joette Katz paid a visit to our editorial board. The appointment was a shocker. To take one of the most challenging jobs in state government, arguably the...

Union address sets up election debate

 January 26, 2012

On Tuesday President Barack Obama used his State of the Union address to frame the 2012 election as a debate about which political vision best offers the chance to maintain the bedrock middle-class aspiration that opportunity and hard work can...

Pension equation

 January 25, 2012

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposal to boost state contributions into the pension plan for state employees is on target. By investing adequately up front the state projects saving $5.8 billion over 20 years due to a greater return on investment...

Protecting liberty

 January 25, 2012

The men who wrote the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment prohibition against warrantless searches of private property could not have envisioned the creation of a device that the government could attach to a carriage and follow its every...

An important step for regional policy

 January 24, 2012

This newspaper has long been an advocate for taking a regional approach, where appropriate, to address the challenges facing southeastern Connecticut's communities. And we have consistently argued that strengthening the powers of the...

A year in, Malloy's strong leadership evident

 January 23, 2012

Taken in totality, the first year of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration has to be judged a success. While there will certainly be a need for budget adjustments in the coming short session, for the first time since the onset of the recession...

State's chance to improve education

 January 22, 2012

Connecticut may boast about having the highest per-capita income in the land, but it should be ashamed of perpetuating the nation's worst "achievement gap" between poor students and their more affluent peers.

Various educational...

Malloy makes good bet on online gaming

 January 21, 2012

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says Connecticut is long past the time when it can afford to pontificate and debate about the good or evil of legalized gambling. Past governors may have had the luxury of happily accepting the revenues the two tribal...

NL officer wrong voting on chief's issues

 January 20, 2012

It did not take long for New London police officer and newly elected City Councilor Anthony Nolan to find himself in a conflict-of-interest position. On Tuesday the City Council had on its agenda two items concerning Mr. Nolan’s...

Proceed with urgency to meet Coast Guard Academy needs

 January 19, 2012

Recent developments provide a reason to be cautiously optimistic that officials can come up with an alternative plan to address the Coast Guard Academy expansion needs. The academy had planned to add an adjacent nine acres to its campus,...

Citizens United distorts elections

 January 18, 2012

South Carolina will hold its critical Republican presidential primary Saturday, which happens to be the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's deplorable decision in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case.

The irony...

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