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Wednesday, September 11, 2024
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024
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East Lyme — We became friends instantly, perhaps because we shared Italian heritage, perhaps because she bore a resemblance, both facially with her sense of humor, to bot...
While downtown Hartford's Dunkin' Park, which opened in 2017, may be the most beautiful minor-league baseball stadium in the country, it will be a long time before it can...
In his quest to return to the White House, Donald Trump is working as hard as he can to lose the upcoming election. And unlike other strategies in a campaign riddled with...
I take pride in being “old school.” Over the years, I have seen a major change in medicine in the United States. And I am not so sure I love the change.
In my medical sch...
Mystic restaurant PEARL, Provisions + Tipples has a policy of seating important guests in prominent places, according to some employees. The restaurant owner says it is not true.
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Steve Bibby of Groton Long Point has guided the Mystic digital media company Stratedia to one of the 5,000 fastest-growing firms in America.
Over the Labor Day weekend leading Democrats — starting with President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz — claimed loudly th...
Compensation of unionized state workers in Connecticut is dramatically overgenerous. This is unfair and unsustainable. It is time for a wage freeze such as former governo...
After scrambling up a precipitous overlook the other day, Phil Plouffe clutched an overhanging branch, tiptoed to the edge, and peered straight down.
“Wow!” he exclaimed....
Presidential elections of yore were not like this one. Would the media kindly get that into their collective skull? Many journalists seem to think that the reluctance of ...
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I have no tolerance at all for any Republicans running on the ballot with an avowed democracy killer, unless they specifically renounce Trump.
College is back in session and students are returning not just to their studies but also to protests on campus about the war in Gaza. At the University of Connecticut at ...
Nothing says “Who’s my state representative?” like a stunner of an electric bill from a public utility.
The recent Eversource rate increase got the attention of everyone....
Around 1900, a man, rumored in England to be Jack the Ripper, bought property in New London. The actor, Richard Mansfield, wasn’t that notorious murderer, but it’s a trib...
Republicans have become the party of lowering electric rates, at any cost, even if it means proposing a siphoning of tax dollars from the general fund or rainy day surpluses.
Idle Thoughts, while waiting for Election Night, the New York Football Giants and for Michael Kay to ditch “let’s do it” before the first pitch of every game:
• Dr. Idle,...
It’s got to be a daunting task to start a business in Connecticut today considering the large number of organizations ready to help and the often-confusing overlaps among them. Help was available at Tuesday’s free Entrepreneur & Small Business Symposium at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center.
What a wonderfully subversive and politically incorrect idea has exploded from the committee set up by the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities to study the problem o...
Thoughts on our increasingly lost society.
Hawaii charges tourists a variety of taxes and fees. It may soon add a $25 climate tax visitors would pay when they check into a hotel or short-term rental. It's meant to...
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