Chris Powell

UConn doesn’t want to conceal its payments to student-athletes for their sake but for its own.

Most of the housing legislation proposed in the CT General Assembly wouldn’t increase the supply of housing at all.

The history of CT’s FOI law has been one of gradual erosion as elected officials and special interests found that openness and accountability can get in their way.

The Hartford school system is refusing to provide state officials with records on the student who graduated without being able to read or write.

Because of the state government scandals uncovered recently by the state auditors, and maybe because of the ones uncovered recently by the Hearst Connecticut newspapers, the Connecticut Mirror, the Yankee Institute’s Connecticut Inside Investigator, and the New Haven Independent, leaders of the Democratic majority in the General Assembly are creating another legislative committee — a […]

Before Connecticut tries revolutionizing more of its voting procedures by adopting ranked choice voting, it should perfect the current ones.

By conventional standards wrestling entrepreneur Linda McMahon’s qualifications to become the next U.S. education secretary are a bit thin.

the country’s willingness to risk a second Trump administration is just the measure of the disaster of the last four years of Democratic administration.

Aleysha Ortiz’s case is different only in degree, not principle, from the cases of most public school students in Connecticut, who are advanced from grade to grade and given high school diplomas without ever performing at grade level.

At last the Connecticut State Department of Education has noticed that long after Hartford’s school system was designated an ‘alliance district’ performance has not improved and the school system itself is falling apart.

Being a title-winning basketball coach is much easier than being a CT state legislator. Here’s why.

A big game of chicken may determine what becomes of Waterbury Hospital, Manchester Memorial Hospital, and Rockville General Hospital in Vernon.

Hartford’s decline into poverty over the last 60 years hasn’t been reversed or even halted by the expensive development projects that have shuffled the city’s downtown this way and that — first Constitution Plaza, an office building complex; then the Hartford Civic Center; then the Connecticut Convention Center; and most recently a minor league baseball […]

How did the state come to have, 20% of its young people “at risk” or “disconnected,” having dropped out of school or being in danger of dropping out?

Five children born to someone unprepared to support them is irresponsibility, though political correctness forbids any such acknowledgment.