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Where will the Republican Party go in the post-Trump era after the illegal storming of the nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6? Who will the Connecticut GOP select as its next chair after its dutiful and long-serving Chair J.R. Romano resigned less than one week later on January 12, citing difficulty raising money? According to a report in the CTMirror, the Connecticut GOP had $28,183 in the till as of Dec. 31, 2020. Connecticut only has about 3.5 million citizens. The United States has about 330 mill...

I wrote here recently that there was not enough evidence to impeach President Trump. That the effort to do so was driven by vindictiveness and hatred of everything about him. Since I wrote that, those that disagreed with me based their arguments exclusively on the last four years, what a jerk he has been, and all the bad things he has said and done, etc. Alan Calandro None of the arguments were about what I wrote: that the video and transcripts did not contain any calls for violence or breaking...

GameStop fiasco shows the ruling class grifters are back Inside a GameStop store. Well that didn’t take long. Just one week into the Biden presidency, America’s ruling class has put the hoi polloi in its place by bailing out a flailing hedge fund because a bunch of COVID-bored bloggers and small investors were about to push it into insolvency. Joseph Bentivegna MD First, some background.  In May of 2020, the car rental company Hertz filed for bankruptcy sending its share price to 56 cents....

A Latino community in need of better educational opportunity Latinos for Educational Advocacy in Danbury Throughout the history of the United States, new immigrant communities have had to struggle to achieve equality and proper representation in our society. Today, as the Latino community has become the largest minority group in the country, this struggle continues. State Sen. Dennis Bradley. In Danbury, where a majority of the student population is increasingly of Latino descent, their struggl...

Why turn down a $25 million school donation when Danbury students need so much help? The home page image of the Danbury Prospect charter school website. I have lived in Danbury for two years and am excited to raise my kids here. My family moved here from the Bronx in New York City because we needed a better life where the schools are in touch with students and we don’t have to pay as much in taxes. My family has loved living in Danbury and my children have loved their teachers. As more famili...

Municipal leaders urge Gov. Lamont to include PILOT in next biennial budget Hartfords PILOT shortfall is indicative of the states level of funding of the program. On Friday, January 15,  New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker and 27 of his counterparts, executive officeholders from across Connecticut, sent a letter advocating that Gov. Ned Lamont includes in his budget the necessary funding to implement a tiered Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) program. Here is the complete text: Dear Governor Lamont,...

A rendering of the proposed Killingly Energy Center generation facility. The 30,000 men and women of the Connecticut State Building Trades unions, were shocked and gravely disappointed by the Gov. Ned Lamont’s quotes, “I don’t want to build Killingly” and that the administration could “play some games there,” referring to slowing the permitting process at DEEP. These quotes are deeply hurtful to the hardworking members of the Building Trades unions who have been especially hard hit ...

Multilingual, multicultural education is a foundational imperative As the calendar has turned to 2021, we cannot help but be reminded of how incredibly intertwined and interdependent we are all across the globe. What is said or done in one geographic location has ramifications far and wide, which underscores the importance of understanding each other and our actions, not only for the harm that can be inflicted inadvertently, but for the good that can be accomplished intentionally. At Mercy High...

Cloe Poisson :: CTMirror.org Alan Miller, 78, of Marlborough, receives the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine from Valerie Faiella, RN, at Connecticut’s largest drive-through vaccination clinic administered by Community Health Center, Inc. The 10-lane clinic, which opened January 18 at Pratt & Whitney Runway in East Hartford vaccinates eligible individuals in Phase 1a and 1b by appointment only. The aforementioned article, written by Genevieve Diamant, stands to do potentially significant damag...

On January 6 the world watched as domestic terrorists stormed the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC.  The pictures seared into our memories of this day are replete with symbols of hatred, racism, and extremism: The Confederate battle flag, the white power hand gesture, and the gallows erected near the Capitol reflecting pool. What many may not have noticed within this sea of white supremacy was the prominence of anti-Semitic images: the black sweatshirt reading “Camp Auschwitz, Work Br...