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Friday, July 26, 2024
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Friday, July 26, 2024
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Now that Joe Biden has stepped down as Democratic candidate for president and endorsed Kamala Harris, the question arises whether he should resign as well. On Wednesday, ...
Rudy Gay is a natural on the basketball court.
He’s also a terrific athlete, helping him have a highly successful UConn basketball and NBA career.
On the golf course, he’...
“Pull! Pull! Pull!”
Urged by shouting coworkers near Voluntown’s Lowdon Brook one morning last week, a crew of sweating laborers hauled a rope tied to an enormous sack be...
Blame for rising property taxes in Connecticut may be shared more broadly than most people think. It's not just the fault of elected officials who yield to the demands of...
What follows here assumes that Kamala Harris carries out her stated intention to "earn the nomination" and not pretend that the crown is only in the shop. This gives her ...
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A historian as much as a politician, Winston Churchill foresaw the outcome of events like those of the Democratic Party's last few weeks.
"The loyalties which center upon...
Last week in this space columnist Paul Choiniere, retired editorial page editor of The Day, contrasted the 1960 presidential debate between John F. Kennedy, who would go ...
The hard-line pro-Palestinian group Within Our Lifetime has been protesting against, of all people, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders. Where did the N...
Idle Thoughts, while waiting for high school football, college football, pro football, football pregame shows, football postgame shows … you get the idea.
• Dr. Idle, Dr....
Greenwich First Selectman Fred Camillo is sore at people who, he says, make lots of requests for access to town records under Connecticut’s freedom of information law. “S...
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Jacob Wilkinson wears many hats at Elmridge Golf Course.
After starting out as the course superintendent in the spring of 2022, Wilkinson’s duties have evolved to include...
Sometime, with many of us distracted, youth baseball got hijacked, its innocence eradicated, its rules rewritten to accommodate the individual, not the collective. And th...
One early morning last week, Dan Linkinhoker zipped up his wetsuit, pulled on a swim cap, adjusted goggles, stretched muscles, and stepped cautiously to the edge of a woo...
Connecticut's four regional state universities and its 12 community colleges are looking enviously at Massachusetts, which, after spending a lot more money, seems to be r...
In overseeing the American economy, President Joe Biden has shown himself to be an amazing manager. It's all there in the numbers, especially when placed next to those of...
In the spirit of how viewing carnage is sometimes tempting — think of craning your neck to see a roadside crash or browsing the Human Comments Section — I interrupted la...
Responding to the attempt to assassinate his Republican challenger, Donald Trump, and the hatefulness that has infected national politics, President Joe Biden told the na...
Try as he might, Donald Trump can't blur the hard reality he forced upon American women. He vowed in 2016 to get rid of Roe v. Wade and succeeded. As a result, American w...
Why is it that some of the best tasting, most interesting foods are so bad for you?
Baking may be healthier than frying food, but in my grandmother’s time, it required us...
Editor’s Note:
This column was written before Saturday’s assassination attempt of President Trump.
I watched it. It was a matter of civic duty. And professional r...
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