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M. Jodi Rell: Calm, reasoned and steady

M. Jodi Rell rose to power and prominence at a dark time in Connecticut. Rell, who died Friday at the age of 78, was the lieutenant governor under John G. Rowland, who wa...

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Americans may well come to regret this choice

All indications are that the nation, unlike four years ago, will have a peaceful transition of power. Donald Trump and his Republican Party scored a solid election victor...

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Respond patriotically whatever happens Tuesday

Throughout U.S. history, presidential elections have generated a mix of excitement and unease. Americans cast their votes, hopeful their candidate would prevail and move ...

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Sophomore Marx the better bet for the 20th District

Representing Connecticut’s 20th State Senate District in the 2025-26 term will be either a freshman or a sophomore. The district covers Bozrah, East Lyme, New London, Ol...

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Return Somers to state Senate from 18th District

State Sen. Heather Somers is the sort of Republican who is fast disappearing from the ranks of party leadership. She is true to such conservative ideals as protecting bus...

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YOUR LETTERS

Live up to the standards of leadership and sportsmanship

As a proud alum of UConn, I must express displeasure with and embarrassment in the behavior of basketball coach Dan Hurley Tuesday in Maui. You must maintain respect in y...

Ten lessons for organizational failure

1. Select the oldest individual, who displays clear signs of diminishing physical and mental conditions, to be the organizations CEO. 2. For your CEO succession plan, sel...

U.S. military aid should be conditional

Let me preface this by saying that I do have relatives in Israel, I think the Oct. 7 attacks remain absolutely indefensible, and that a two-state solution would be best. ...

UNWRA no longer legitimate

It has now been revealed by UN Watch that back in 2017, UNRWA's then-leader Pierre Krahenbuhl met in Beirut with leaders of numerous terror groups, including Hamas, Pales...

Does Sanders have short-term memory loss or something else?

Senator Bernie Sanders’ op-ed (The Day Nov. 20, reprint Washington Post) “No more arms sales to Netanyahu,” ignores a fundamental truth: Israel is fighting a necessary wa...

Hope still our guiding light

I admit it. I’ve taken things for granted, living in this land of freedom for my 77 years. In my lifetime, I’ve never given a thought to what frightening turn my life mig...

Democracy hangs in the balance

In Saturday’s Day article by Jennifer Rubin, “We Need a Different Model of Journalism” Ms. Rubin discusses the loss of effective journalism across the country. She is cor...

Student loan forgiveness

Connecticut is about to go on another spending spree with our hard-earned tax dollars. Apparently our state legislature was asleep during this past election and did not ...

Gaza: the war must end now

On Oct. 7, 2023, 1,400 Israelis and foreigners were murdered by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists. On that date, at least 250 were taken hostage. About 100 have not ...

Where has Thanksgiving gone?

Thanksgiving is the time to give thanks, to the Lord above. Maybe you were cured of cancer, or a loved one was, or of some other unwanted disease? Even though the economy...

Gordon Court residents running out of time

The residents of Gordon Court are running out of time. Seniors and disabled individuals who have built their lives within this tight-knit New London community now face th...

Sen. Sanders says what few dare

Thank you for publishing Senator Bernie Sanders’ appeal “No More Arms Sales to Netanyahu.” His courageous statement reminds us all of what few dare to say for fear of bei...

A dark day indeed

Astoundingly, Senator Bernie Sanders’ op-ed against arms sales to Israel asserts that Americans are complicit in “horrific and illegal atrocities” in Gaza. It’s a dark da...

A note to Bernie in his ivory tower

When I read Bernie Sanders’ submission in The Day (Nov. 20) of "No more arms sales to Netanyahu," I wondered why I didn't see a similarly hostile commentary from him towa...

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COLUMNS

Quite a guy

Anyone engaged in a perilous struggle with world-altering consequences should enjoy a private life as placid as a duck pond. But of course it doesn’t work that way. Case ...

Dr. I: Has UConn sold its soul in the name of winning?

Idle Thoughts, while waiting for the high school football playoffs, the Mets to keep their filthy hands off Juan Soto and for someone to ban Christmas carols: • Dr. Idle,...

RIP to ‘Juice,’ an American original

And so we grieve — have for a week now — over the death of the man we knew as most full of life. Justin Lamoureux. “Juice.” Put it this way: You know you’ve made it when ...

The Thames: A tale of two rivers

An unusually high tide, driven by November’s Beaver Supermoon, flooded the parking lot at Howard T. Brown Memorial Park in Norwich the other morning, as friends and I pre...

New London’s sports history rooted in Thanksgiving

New London — It has been suggested that we study history because history doesn’t stay behind us. It helps us understand how events in the past made things the way they ar...

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OP-ED

Good riddance, celebrities

Goodbye, Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Stewart and Cher. So long, Miley Cyrus, Snoop Dogg and Barbra Streisand. Farewell, Ellen DeGeneres, Samuel L. Jackson and all the rest of yo...

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‘Guardrails’ have big gaps and so don’t achieve much

There’s a big gap in Connecticut’s “fiscal guardrails,” the rules enacted in 2017 to require state government to save a big part of any budget surplus and apply it to its...

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Ranked-choice voting is good but Connecticut isn’t ready

Gov. Ned Lamont and some good-government activists want Connecticut to adopt ranked-choice voting. This is the mechanism of "instant runoff" elections in which voters ran...

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