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Why is Lamont silent about a killing by one of his state troopers? Cloe Poisson :: CTMirror.org Mariyann Soulemane, her brother Saeed Soulemane and their mother, Omo K. Mohammed (l-r) pose with a photograph of their brother and son, Mubarak Soulemane, who was shot and killed by a state trooper in West Haven in January after a suspected carjacking. On Jan. 15, 2020, State Trooper Brian North ended the life of Mubarak Soulemane by shooting him through a car window seven times. The car Soulemane was in was stopped and surrounded by state trooper and local police cars. All the windows were up. Ye...

Monthly CT VIEWPOINTS -- opinions from around Connecticut To save democracy, recommit to principles of the rule of law and human rights at home The fascist riot at the U.S. Capitol is a fitting denouement of the Trump Presidency.  His incitement of thousands of white supremacists, conspiracy theorists, and others caught in the thrall of his cult of personality demonstrated once and for all that there is nothing he won’t do to cling to power – -and nothing some won’t do to keep him there. Whether by the 25 th Amendment, a second impeachment, ...

Not the first violence at the U.S. Capitol, but we must make it the last An unemployed painter named Richard Lawrence attempted to assassinate President Andrew Jackson in January 1835. The U.S. Capitol was overrun January 6  by an angry, armed mob of insurrectionists carrying campaign banners with the name “Trump” displayed just as prominently as on any of his failed casinos. There is no doubt as to their motives;  they wanted to disrupt the counting of Electoral College votes by the Congress and the Senate, usually a plain vanilla enterprise unnoticed by either the public or the media...

The cancer of the body politic Protestors stand outside the state capitol. When people are given a cancer diagnosis, they naturally take an inventory of their past behaviors, looking for the roots of the illness. Was it all those cigarettes I smoked in high school? The diet soda I love? High tension wires? State Rep. Christine Palm But what about the cancer eating at the marrow of our country right now? Some of us are sitting in shock and asking, “How could this ever have happened?” Others, including senators, members of congress and the cabinet, are waking from a deep sleep and trying...

The COVID vaccine: Keep it simple, stupid The writer gets his inoculation. Not to judge, but why are smart people often so dumb? Last Wednesday I got my first COVID-19 shot. Yay! To schedule an appointment I had to go onto the CDC’s Vaccine Administration Monitoring System (VAMS). Here’s a link to their site so you can verify for yourself that what follows is not Trumpian BS (Please wait until after you’ve read this essay to clink the link. It’s a black hole and you might never return.) To schedule my first shot I had to set up an online account. I got frozen on the first page, and it...