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David Collins
Friday, July 26, 2024
David Collins
Friday, July 26, 2024
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COLUMNS BY DAVID COLLINS
As news broke Thursday of the arrest of Gov. Ned Lamont’s former deputy budget chief, I couldn’t help but wonder how the governor could have been so clueless about what the FBI called blatant wrongdoing in his administration.
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As the city prepares to revamp management of the park, it might want to consider a larger reset of the magnificent property.
Angry, arrogant, clueless and overpaid are not things you like to see in a chief executive, as you are raising electric rates some 19%.
Don’t we all hope the former president takes the stand and sets the record straight?
The agent for the developer of a controversial project in Old Mystic, which neighbors say has destroyed a wetlands, has been appointed to town wetlands commission by a 2-1 vote.
General Assembly passes bill to study expansion of tourism, looking at tax revenues, transportation issues, climate change flood risks and infrastructure improvements.
Eastern Connecticut GOP lawmakers did not respond to emailed questions about whether they will support Donald Trump if he is convicted in the hush money trial underway in New York.
New book by Doris Kearns Goodwin provides details of how Merle Smith Jr. became the first Black cadet to graduate from the Coast Guard Academy because of an intervention by JFK.
Tesla has begun offering car owners a free 30-day trial of the newest version of its self-driving software.
Work has begun on a new $15 million exhibit space that is tentatively scheduled to open in the spring of 2025.
Connecticut Republicans, watching the head of their party sit through a serious criminal trial, might want to consider what it could be like to have a felon at the head of their ticket.
The General Assembly last year widened the number of municipalities that can use a receivership law to address blighted properties. New London should use it to address the rubble that remains of the First Congregational Church and other blighted properties.
The Merrill House building on Water Street is being deeded to the organization that has been running a writer-in-residence program in the late poet’s apartment, since he died in 1995.
Noankers might be welcoming the kind of explosive growth that has engulfed Mystic, if they allow a big new restaurant with a liquor license on the former Ford’s Lobster site.
A challenger for Sen. Heather Somers, in her re-election bid for the 18th District, has yet to emerge.
Connecticut Republicans don’t even want a study council to look at a transition to sooner electric vehicle mandates.
Proposed legislation that would create a study on ways to grow Mystic tourism is at least acknowledgment in Hartford of how important the tourism in this region is to the state’s economy.
Lawmakers are considering a bill that would require the effects of power-hungry data centers on electric rates and the stability of the power grid be studied.
Mike France, the Republican launching a new challenge against U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, has hired a Trump lawyer who unsuccessfully challenged the 2020 election results in court.
Lawmakers will take up the governor’s plan to merge the port authority with the airport authority in a public hearing Friday.
The state already collects a 15% tax on short-term rentals, and his proposal would allow the Department of Revenues Service to remit some of that back to cities and towns where the rentals are located.
There is no demolition waiting period in Groton, and a building can be knocked down as soon as a permit application is filed and approved.
An outpouring of train riders, public officials and legislators plead for a return to pre-pandemic train service
I wish I could have registered my own voting salute to the determined Nikki Haley, trying to rescue the normalcy of her party, and, by extension, our treasured democracy.
As recently as 2020, the Lamont administration, even as it was spending millions on State Pier, admitted it had no strategy for developing a wind industry in Connecticut.
I was certainly startled this week when someone sent me a picture of Groton City Mayor Keith Hedrick, a Democrat, attending a Sunday fundraiser for Republican Sen. Heather Somers.
It should be an interesting election year in the 18th Senate District.
The USS Florida recently fired Tomahawks cruise missiles against the Houthis, and the USS Wyoming is featured in a ridealong for Vanity Fair.
A proposal for charter reform would make town clerk and tax collector appointed rather than elected positions.
The city extended a contract for new sidewalks each year for ten years without new bidding.
It’s hard to imagine there’s much support for Trump’s attack on NATO here in the Submarine Capital of World.
The 1997 Steven Spielberg movie, chronicling the horrors of the slave trade, is a standout among films that include eastern Connecticut.
The legacy of whaling mogul Sebastian Lawrence still enriches New London and surrounding communities.
Our former Republican Congressman Rob Simmons of Stonington has now devolved into a cartoon character on local right-wing radio, arguing not long ago that the Trump-inspired Jan. 6 insurrection was an “FBI operation.”
The school says anything faculty posts on newspaper web sites is protected free speech.
With this month’s flooding in Mystic, which left some of the Seaport Marine property ― now cleared of the demolished remains of buildings and storage sheds ― under water, columnist David Collins got curious about what’s happened with the investigation into the cause of the November 2022 fire.
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