Manchester's Community Art in Action

Thank you from Silk City Fest

Silk City Fest is Saturday, August 22, from 1 to 7 p.m.

Don't miss this beloved Manchester tradition

Powell: Only one rationale remains for casinos in Connecticut

With patrons from out of state declining, the state's casinos now are taking more out of the state's economy than they are bringing in

UR Community Cares and the Alzheimer's Association Connecticut Chapter

Partner to Present "Memory in Motion"

Powell: Public campaign financing has yet to improve Connecticut

The legislature seems as submissive to special interests as ever, especially to the government employee unions, the Democratic Party's army.

NEW! Connecticut Virtual Statewide Blind & Low Vision Support Group

All Are Welcome

Powell: Primary campaign shows Lamont frantically pandering to leftists

Standing up to Trump takes no courage in Connecticut. What takes courage is standing up to those who'd make the state a people's republic

Hartford HealthCare Achieves Major Milestones Following Integration of Greater Manchester Region

Since joining HHC on January 1, 2026, Manchester Memorial Hospital and the Rockville Campus have undergone significant transition.

Powell: West Hartford voter registration case is more than an anomaly

No one knows whether Connecticut's voter rolls include non-citizens, and, worse, no one in authority wants to know.

Powell: Legislators try blackmailing Yale to save its discriminatory admissions policy

Apparently it's of no concern to the legislators that the university might be breaking civil rights law and thus incurring much liability

Powell: Why so much special education? And more minimum-wage nonsense

The explosion in special education costs may be part of the price society is paying for welfare policy's destruction of the family

Latoya Facey of Manchester Awarded Scholarship for HR Certification

The Scholarship Was Established in 2016 by Andy Thiede, an HR Professional From Berlin, Connecticut

Powell: Can Elliott make waste and fraud an issue in governor primary?

Is there any constituency in the Democratic Party for plain old honest, efficient, transparent, and effective government?

Powell: It looks like Connecticut Democrats oppose any immigration enforcement

Unlike everyone else, WTIC-AM1080 talk show host Reese Hopkins showed up with a critical question: Did anyone know why ICE made the arrest?

Powell: Fix Connecticut's big problems before trying to seize utilities

Shareholder ownership isn't the primary reason electricity is so expensive in Connecticut. State government itself is a bigger reason.

Powell: Connecticut's anti-ICE law is a fraud, and so is 'believe all women'

Governor Lamont has not ordered the state police to try enforcing it and Attorney General William Tong is suddenly nowhere to be seen.

Powell: Taxes in Connecticut can't be cut while personnel costs stay exempt

The solution is obvious but always unspoken: To freeze or reduce taxes, you have to unfix the "fixed costs" -- personnel compensation.

Powell: Larson's best case vs. Bronin is the flip side of the age issue

Larson's Social Security legislation is the old sort of liberalism, improving living conditions for working people with a reward for work

Erased and Exploited: My Life with a Brain Injury in the System

My experience with brain injury exposes how survivors are overlooked and failed by the system. Real support is needed—not empty promises.

Powell: School finance study is rigged in favor of educators

Reforming school finance is not a matter of educational practice at all but one of tax fairness and effectiveness

Powell: Falling student population means higher teacher pay

State government has enacted a law that virtually prohibits school boards from reducing their budgets even as enrollment declines.

Powell: Is 1st CD Democratic primary a case of young vs. old or Mayberry vs. Greenwich?

Many Democrats are turning against their own veteran members of Congress, as if even their youngest members have achieved much against Trump

Graffiti Battle

Sunday, May 17th 1-4pm

Powell: 'Affordability' in Connecticut this year will be just for government employees

Government money keeps going to the minority that is most mobilized politically to claim it, not necessarily to the public good.

Powell: Party balloon litter is bad but 'nip' bottle litter is profit

Of course the legislation will turn out to be an idle gesture. Who is going to call the police about balloon releases and litter?

Smokey Bones Closure In Manchester Part Of National Trend

The shuttering of the Smokey Bones location in Manchester seems to be part of not only financial woes, but a national strategy.

Powell: Lamont, Tong, and Elicker escape questions about illegal immigration

Constitutional or not, as a practical matter there is no doubt about what the state has been doing: subverting federal immigration law.

Art in Motion

Meet the Artists of the 2026 Graffiti Battle

Powell: ICE should explain faster but protesters want 'no nations'

The protests hold that anyone who enters or stays in the country illegally should be exempt from immigration law enforcement in Connecticut

Firehouse Preservation at 32 Main St.

The town of manchester is to take bids on the former firehouse. I and others are advocating that the building behistorically preserved.

UR Community Cares

New Board President

Powell: UConn facilitates student riots; and sidewalks aren't therapy for mental illness

Student rioters have little fear of consequences. Criminal law enforcement is weak throughout the country and especially in Connecticut

Bridging Gaps, Building Connections

The Impact of UR Community Cares

Powell: His misconduct forgotten, a grifter sits in the governor's chair

Lamont didn't have to worry about being tarnished by his friend's misconduct, since Connecticut's P.C. journalists would never bring it up

Powell: At last Linda McMahon finds a Connecticut school that will listen to her

McMahon may not be the ideal exponent of a "roadmap for restoring American education," but a new direction is urgently needed.

Manchester’s Little Superheroes

With Wings

Powell: Overlong legislative hearings are for venting, not persuading

By invoking a bogus "emergency" the Democrats were really confessing their inability to manage the session well enough to get its work done.

Manchester Nonprofits Receive More Than $39,000 From Greater Hartford Gives

The Manchester Community Fund at Greater Hartford Gives has awarded grants to 12 local groups

The Human Skills That Matter Most

In an AI World

Powell: Public schools couldn't meet new home-school standards

Child neglect and abuse are almost infinitely more frequent among children being public-schooled, about whom school officials do nothing