Written by Office of the Governor.
Governor Ned Lamont today welcomed U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo to Connecticut to visit the apprenticeship program administered by the Connecticut Department of Labor at Electric Boat in Groton for an opportunity to speak with participating apprentices and discuss the importance of registered apprenticeship and job training programs on economic growth and prosperity.
The officials were joined by Senator Richard Blumenthal; Congressman Joe Courtney; Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro; Bernard Treml, Regional Director, U.S. Department of Labor Office of Apprenticeship; and Connecticut Department of Labor Deputy Commissioner Danté Bartolomeo.
In 1964, Stanley Kubrick released a dark comedy classic titled “
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” The title captured the absurdity of getting people to embrace the concept of weapons of mass destruction. The movie came to mind recently with the public campaign of Facebook calling for people to change her attitudes about the Internet and
rethink issues like “content modification” – the new Orwellian term for censorship.
The commercials show people like “Joshan” who says that he was born in 1996 and grew up with the internet.” Joshan mocks how much computers have changed and then asks why our regulations on privacy and censorship cannot evolve as much as our technology. The ads are clearly directed at younger users who may be more willing to accept censorship than their parents who hopelessly cling to old-fashioned notions of free speech.
Biden Says Spending Program Will Give U.S. a Leg Up on China
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In his address to Congress, President Biden never uttered the words “cold war,” but he spoke of the need to prove that “democracy still works” as the country competes with authoritarian adversaries. Mr. Biden attended a drive-in car rally in Georgia Thursday evening to commemorate his 100th day in office.
Here’s what you need to know:
President Biden acknowledged that his foreign policy depends on convincing Americans to make necessary investments at home, and convincing allies that the U.S. could be counted on to have their back.Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
Democrats Throw Justice Breyer Surprise Retirement Party Hoping He’ll Just Go With It
WASHINGTON Jumping out from hiding spots and popping champagne when the Supreme Court justice turned on the lights in his office, a group of Democratic Party leaders reportedly threw a surprise retirement party Friday for Stephen Breyer hoping that he would just go with it. “We’re sorry to see you go, but it’s really great to see someone going out on top,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), patting the 82-year-old jurist on the back and toasting the end of his long and storied career in an effort to force him into agreeing to retire from the nation’s highest court. “Some of the naysayers said old Breyer will cling to this seat until he croaks, but you sure proved them wrong. I think I speak for everyone here when I say we respect you even more for making that hard decision that it was time to hang up your robe and ship out. In some ways, I envy you you’ll be out there on the l
Published April 26. 2021 12:01AM
Our senators weighed in recently on two important and controversial subjects: Senator Chris Murphy on immigrants and Senator Richard Blumenthal on gun buy-back and gun violence. Murphy equated welcoming immigrants as part of our heritage and history. Does he not realize that those crossing our southern border are not immigrants but illegal entries overtly flaunting our laws and sovereignty? Likewise, does no one in government realize the United States is a finite piece of real estate with finite resources. We are now 330-plus million strong. Just what is the right population size for our country? What can our space and resources support? Many government funded studies, most worthless, are done. Perhaps one should be done on population versus land mass and resources.