Powell: With 'rubber rooms' in schools, whence the messed-up kids?

Amid epidemic of disturbed children, state government crazily expects that schools should double as mental hospitals

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Governor and legislators minimize college arrogance and hypocrisy

And will 2025 be the year when the General Assembly lets us buy wine in supermarkets and dares to stand up to the liquor lobby?

Safely re-elected, Senator Murphy attacks medical insurers

If United Healthcare has been cheating its customers to death, the senator didn't get around to protesting during his campaign

Powell: Supporting illegal immigration, Connecticut's left cuts wages

The more illegal immigrants are hired, the lower the wage base goes, the more child labor is used, and the more welfare expenses rise.

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Powell: If free speech is criminal, there really will be 'hell to pay'

A Guilford man has been convicted of felony threatening for protesting political propaganda at his town's high school

Business Celebrates One-Year Anniversary

ECM Sports Performance and Rehabilitation Celebrates One Year at The Academy with Exciting Milestone

Second Congregational Church of Manchester Introduces New Minister

Pastor James Mercurio becomes new minister.

Powell: 'Fiscal guardrails' have big gaps and so don't achieve much

CCM's Delong notes that they shift spending burden to property tax; columnist Jahncke notes that raises nullify pension debt reduction

Powell: Connecticut's nullifiers echo old South's segregationists

Attorney General Tong and city mayors refuse to distinguish between legal and illegal immigration

Powell: Immigration fraud racket operates from city halls

'Sanctuary state' facilitates dozens of marriages of convenience for visiting foreigners seeking right to stay in the country

Powell: Country decides that the Democrats are even worse than Trump

At some point in politics disastrous policies become more important to voters than the character defects of a candidate

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Manchester Greater Together Community Fund Announces Grant RFP

This is a competitive grant opportunity for nonprofits proposing projects to benefit the residents of Manchester.

Powell: Why can't people support their own kids anymore?

Government has inflicted a ruinous inflation on society while encouraging people to impoverish themselves

Manchester Greater Together Community Fund Seeks New Members

The Manchester Greater Together Community Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving is hoping to recruit new committee members.

Powell: Ending both political plagues will take at least 4 years

Get rid of Biden and Harris first, and then Constitution and age will remove Trump

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Powell: Poverty devours Connecticut, but who will ask its cause?

The response from officialdom has been not to determine poverty's causes but just to throw more money at their symptoms.

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Powell: Much delusion in Connecticut about a 'two-state solution'

The only issue is the right of Israel to exist, which Palestinians never have genuinely conceded and never will

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Little Theatre of Manchester's First Annual Holiday ARTS & CRAFT FAIR

Powell: Throwing money at schools is a policy that needs to be audited

What does 'fully funded' mean exactly? Only a lot more, every year, forever, without regard to results

Hurricane Shocks and Surprises - Could it Happen Here?

thoughts on unexpected disasters

Powell: New Haven apologizes as its police defend themselves

After decades of disaster, we can assume that state government actually intends the horrible result of its policies: generational poverty

Powell: Connecticut lacks best innovation; and ban looting hospitals

State doesn't need its own venture capital firm but does need a law forbidding profit-making companies from acquiring nonprofit hospitals

The Academy Hosts a Trial for their Jedi Training Program

A Unique Fusion of Martial Arts and Star Wars Philosophy

Powell: Abortion extremists are pushing Connecticut far 'beyond Roe'

They want to legitimize late-term abortion, abortion of viable fetuses, in all circumstances -- that is, barbarity. Will Gov. Lamont agree?

Powell: Connecticut's working class is on the path to oblivion

Unionized government employees are a privileged class. The working class is something else, a matter of the private sector.

Powell: Senator Murphy keeps excusing crimes from open borders

So what if most illegal immigrants aren't criminals? The many who are should never have been admitted

Powell: Business execs warn Connecticut about too much higher ed

College is grossly overpriced, a racket for educators, and the country's biggest education problem is lower education

Powell: Connecticut Republicans have lot of opportunities -- issues

Success against electric rate increases and ban on new gas-powered cars show public can be mobilized, even by Republicans

Powell: Without an auditor for prisons, legislature should do the job

Public and press have little access to the most insulated and secretive agency of state government, and transparency is badly needed

Powell: Repulsive as Trump may be, his remarks weren't racist

Harris adjusts her ancestry to changing political circumstances, and not all Indians deserve casino privileges; in fact, nobody does

Powell: Murphy's money for nothing only makes poverty worse

Should we have a self-sufficient and prosperous population or an impoverished one permanently dependent on government?

Drinkable Water for Unhoused People

Town, business, religious community, individuals collaborate to make water available for people living on the streets of Manchester

Powell: Ousting Biden, Democrats show that Trump isn't the only liar

President didn't withdraw for 'the good of the country' but was dragged out kicking and screaming