Haitians are more than a headline
Back in 2024, Donald Trump said that Haitian immigrants were eating people’s pets. This claim wasn’t true. But it kept spreading anyway.
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Your most dangerous drive home
With the end of Daylight Savings Time comes earlier darkness — and increasing danger — on the streets and roads.
Coffee, tea or turbulence?
Just when you thought flying couldn’t get any more unpleasant, our atmosphere has joined the airlines in trying to shake you down.
The ups and downs of Amazon drone deliveries
State officials have received over 1,000 comments on the proposal and a ruling is expected in mid-November.
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CT’s picture-perfect autumn includes homelessness and poverty
CT must approach homelessness as both an immediate public health and safety concern as well as a long-term policy failure.
It’s time to act on fossil fuels
Pipeline and compressor expansion projects pose undeniable risks to our health and safety. It’s time to speak out.
A beautiful and powerful movement against ICE
Danbury residents are demanding safety for everyone in their community. Danbury has the right to demand peace.
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The view from under the Blue Wave
An unpopular war, presidential antics and voters struggling to get by all fueled this political massacre.
OK, Democrats, now do something
Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, before you get comfortable: we didn’t send you there to protect the majority. We sent you there to use it.
The lost art of statesmanship
Governing requires accepting responsibility for everyone, including those who opposed you.
Whither goest thou, Democrats?
The Blue tsunami was not a confirmation of the Democrats’ platform but a refutation of the GOP’s. And so, this is a time of reckoning.
CCSU’s fresh start: Forget the past, remember your friends
At Central, shared governance apparently means being invited to speak, then finding out what happened after everyone stopped listening.
Maybe we’re finally done hating on Connecticut
In 2018, I wrote a column called “Let’s Stop Hating on Connecticut.” It began with a colleague telling me he loved our state. I was so surprised that I asked, essentially, what was wrong with him. I had grown up here. Complaining about Connecticut was practically a local custom. We complained about the taxes, the…
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