Category: News
Commentary: Orange taxpayers invested billions in schools; why is Florida undermining us?
More than two decades ago, Orange County Public Schools faced a crisis. Our infrastructure was dilapidated, our classrooms were bursting at the seams, and we…
Commentary: Supreme Court clears the way for more book bans
When in American history have all the wheels fallen off the cart because our highest officials and the Supreme Court itself have decided to ignore…
Wallpaper isn’t your enemy anymore. It’s back in style in CT once again.
Over the years, wallpaper has been all the rage. Step into a house renovated from the 1950s to early 1990s, there is probably a lot…
Opinion: Winter’s lessons in CT. They will come for all of us one day.
Winter is upon us in New England, and for those my age, winter is also within us. The sometimes cold, grey landscape outside my windows…
Already embroiled in bitter divide, central CT town hit by cut in bond rating
The brutal political divide in Bloomfield widened this week after S. & P. cut the town’s bond rating just before New Year’s, the first reduction…
CT town balks at proposal for 10-acre battery energy storage farm
In a situation similar to what Granby faced this summer, New Milford residents are balking at a proposed 140 megawatt battery energy storage farm less…
Property of the week: Spacious CT home called a ‘rarity’ to find
It turns out that the home for sale is a rarity. “This is a hard-to-find spacious ranch in West Hartford in a convenient location,” said…
Trump’s ‘Golden Fleet’ plan to resurrect battleships meets sharp criticism in CT submarine country
President Donald Trump’s stunning year-end announcement that he is redirecting decades of U.S. Naval planning by re-emphasizing surface, rather than submarine warfare with construction of…
The CT DMV raised towing rates. Here’s what tow companies had to say about it.
Despite pleas from tow truck company owners for a larger hike in towing rates, a hearing officer for the state Department of Motor Vehicles has…
An expanding CT family-run restaurant has ‘unique’ items. They are part of a national food craze.
The nationwide soup dumpling craze, where the soup is inside a dumpling, is going strong in Connecticut. But one family-owned restaurant here claims an edge…