A few years ago, when former national champion bicycle racer Jim Case found it increasingly difficult to keep up with younger riders on hills, he joined a rapidly growing...
Since Connecticut state government is a big place, it will make mistakes even in the best of circumstances. But Gov. Ned Lamont and state legislators should pay much more...
New London - This was a day of remembrance, a day when we were supposed to somehow frame the events of 23 years ago, when we endured tragedy and heroism, sorrow and inspi...
I guess the swindle-the-suckers-in-New-London light is lit again as Mayor Passero wants the city to approve a $6.5 million tax cut for a developer proposing 500 apartments at Fort Trumbull.
Americans focused on inflation seem especially tuned into the price of gasoline. While inflation has been fading away, many prices remain higher than they were two years ...
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...
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 ...
It is customary at Coast Guard Academy for fourth class (freshmen) cadets to address upperclassmen and women as “sir” or “ma’am” at all academy outposts, except during sp...
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...