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Tuesday, October 22, 2024
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Tuesday, October 22, 2024
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It was during an episode of M*A*S*H, in the operating room, when Hawkeye Pierce nearly lost a patient. He frantically performed CPR, screaming, "Live, dammit, live! Don't...
Fourteen days of early voting began this week in Connecticut for the Nov. 5 federal and state elections, and since this early voting must be done in person, there's nothi...
I salute democracy-enhancing early voting, but I still like same-day elections better.
Before his July 25, 1946, match against Jackie Graves, featherweight boxing champion Willie Pep bet he could win a round without throwing a punch. Bobbing and weaving and...
As I stood on my deck watching the autumn leaves floating about like errant monarch butterflies, I could hear the distant gabling of geese. Then, far off in the dusk, I s...
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Groton — Among the escalating collection of frauds in this country are the dullards who bristle at condemning a whole group of people for the actions of a few … but are o...
Comments can get a little more pointed and direct in an election season.
The tricks Donald Trump tried to play on the recent hurricane victims were beyond depraved. Here were people suffering major losses, their lives stopped in a hellscape of...
Tesla founder Elon Musk has become a major Donald Trump funder, complicating Connecticut Republicans’ campaign against electric car mandates.
Less than a minute after friends and I arrived at Westerly’s Napatree Point one blustery morning last week, we watched a small falcon, on the hunt, rocketing over marsh g...
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This was during the WNBA semifinals at Mohegan Sun Arena two weeks ago when a league official chatted about heretofore unimaginable levels of social media vitriol aimed a...
Proposed changes to Stonington charter would eliminate voting for tax collector and town clerk and extend the term of the first selectmen to four years from two, making government less accountable to voters.
Elon Musk is a migrant.
There is a difference between a migrant and an immigrant. An immigrant is a person who moves to another country with the intention of living there...
We interrupt college basketball season here in the “college basketball capital of the world” to provide this public service announcement:
The most significant athletic ev...
Miracle of miracles, Connecticut's Correction Department has arranged to recover a total of nearly $164,000 spent in 54 mistaken salary overpayments to an employee who wa...
You can probably picture the scene in my office. A nice older gentleman avoids eye contact as I tell him that his high blood pressure increases his stroke risk. I sense b...
Just two days before the intense presidential and congressional elections that will decide between radically different visions for the future comes the ordinary, annual e...
Courtney’s opponent, Mike France, didn’t say Joe Biden won the election but acknowleged he was sworn in as president.
Idle Thoughts, while waiting for the next round of baseball playoffs, UConn-Wake Forest football and for the Yankees to explain why someone named Duke Ellis is on the pos...
How do bring today’s culture of gamesmanship into the kitchen.
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