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Speak the truth about project labor agreements Constriction at the Engineering & Science Building at UConn Storrs campus A commentary Dec. 31 in the CT Mirror by Keith Brothers, the Business Manager of the CT Laborers District Council and President of the Norwich-New London Building Trades Council, contained some valid points, but its main point that project labor agreements do not cost more money is widely known to be false. Alan Calandro To be clear I am sympathetic to the building trades and to some extent to union protections. My father was a building contractor and was in a carpenter’s...

Matt Ritter after the House Democrats endorsed him as speaker. In politics, power is golden. Indeed, power, not riches, is the coin of the political realm. In Connecticut, the Ritters, a power family, are the closest we have come to political royalty. Courant journalist Chris Keating lays out the political lineage of the Ritter clan in a piece titled “Hartford’s Ritter Family extends influence.” Don Pesci “The Ritters,” Keating notes in the lead to his story, “a Hartford family whose public service spans more than five decades, have arrived at a level of political prominence and i...

Rebuttal: Build housing to create more a dynamic and just economic future for Connecticut In a December 17 opinion piece titled , Alexis Harrison of Fairfield argued against HB 5132, a bill that would reform zoning laws in the state. This was not her first opinion piece in the Mirror objecting to zoning reform and housing development. On September 4 she wrote against proposed developments in Fairfield, blaming state law 8-30g and warning about dire consequences if HB 5132 passed in the future. In these articles she argued that zoning reform in Connecticut must be stymied in order to:  cons...