Here we are again: A company not particularly known for being diverse has used inclusion as a way to “break the internet.”
This time, it’s Sports Illustrated, featuring 8...
On May 20, 1969, Warren Kimbro and two other Black Panthers drove suspected FBI informant Alex Rackley to a swamp in Middlefield where Kimbro put a bullet into the back o...
Memo to Major League Baseball: Could we please re-introduce a little class to the sport and do away with the home run histrionics?
Yes, we should be happy about rules cha...
I miss the critics.
The theater, music, movie, fashion, book, dance and architectural critics who once populated the nation’s media have been systematically eliminated at...
Daniel Kokoszka, a young man evidently with a lot of free time on his hands, decided one day last year to exercise his First Amendment rights by strolling into the rear parking lot of the New London Police Department and start videotaping with his cell phone.
Sixty years ago, a Baptist minister sat in a southern jail cell and penned the most important written statement of the civil rights movement.
Months before the March on W...
In February 2019, Kim Kardashian took to Twitter to express her disapproval for an online fashion company that is known to sell knockoff designer clothing. She complained...
The University of Connecticut's metamorphic rise in men's basketball from Big East Conference doormat to national powerhouse is truly remarkable.
In fact, to fully apprec...
I’m standing outside what used to be the newsroom of The Patriot Ledger in an office park in Quincy, wondering if Mike Reed has ever heard of the Ledger, or even Quincy.
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Note to politicians with presidential aspirations: Joining the cabinet makes the path that much harder. Just ask Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Cabinet secretar...
Six years ago, Connecticut lawmakers — faced with the latest in a recurring series of multi-billion dollar budget deficits — were in the early stages of a drawn-out debat...
The Republican presidential nomination is up for grabs.
Given his enduring popularity with GOP voters, former President Donald Trump remains the front-runner. While he h...
In Roberta Rose’s studio, the paint is barely dry on a large rectangular canvas. It depicts a silhouette of the upper part of a body, with arms reaching upward, hands ou...
First, lines from two poems by Nobel Laureate, Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004), written in Warsaw in1945:
Dedication:
“What is poetry which does not save
Nation...
Once upon a time, when the Falcone family was alive and well and living in Norwich, we all prepared for the coming of Easter. It was 1964; a glorious time for a child to...
As a Mystic resident, I am constantly baffled why we must continuously have to come to terms with the governing in Stonington. I have a solution: the residents of Mystic,...
Mark Cuban, the billionaire “Shark Tank” celebrity and Dallas Mavericks owner, is getting attention again — this time for his Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co., which seeks t...
Having seen his daughter suffer,
Catholic M.D. backs aid in dying
Inspired by the public advocacy of terminal brain cancer patient Brittany Maynard, lawmakers in Washingt...
Provide better care at end of life, not physician-assisted suicide
The Judiciary Committee of the Legislature of the State of Connecticut is considering a bill that ...
Every year, various groups show up at the State Capitol with ideas to change the rules in Connecticut workplaces. In a bygone age when local businesses were only competin...
This winter weather - prolonged cold with deep snow and ice - is hard on wild animals. Wading birds, like great blue heron, can't find fish through the ice and snow in fr...
Issues of widespread agreement in our unceasingly polarized, super-charged political environment are few and far between. That makes it all the more remarkable that two o...