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Miss Misinformation is the pageant for me Remember Miss America, she of the eponymous pageant? Well forget her. Ditto Miss Universe, Miss Gluten Free and all the rest. They’re old hat—yesterday’s politically correct Kumbaya news. Who needs to ogle fulsome females bent on curing world hunger and striving for inter-galactic peace whilst strumming ukuleles in their swimsuits? I, for one, won’t miss these Misses. It’s a new century, time for a total makeover of the beauty pageant, this tawdry single gender genre (try saying those last three words really fast). It needs to capture the Ze...

Ending solitary confinement will protect lives and also save money SB 1059's Fiscal Note is drastically inflated This year the PROTECT Act, otherwise known as Senate Bill 1059, offers Connecticut an opportunity to address conditions in Connecticut state prisons and jails that the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture condemns as “a State-sanctioned policy aimed at purposefully inflicting severe pain… which may well amount to torture.” If passed, the PROTECT Act would end solitary confinement by guaranteeing minimum time out of cell, banning abusive restraints, ensuring access to ...

We’re trying to end American structural racism. Why are we supporting Israeli apartheid? On April 20, a Minnesota jury convicted former white Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin of killing African-American George Floyd. While far from dismantling systemic racism in the U.S., the verdict is a mini milestone for justice and incentive to press on. Paradoxically, as movement for American racial justice is fortified, the U.S. government continues to support the structural racism of another country, Israel, with billions of our tax dollars, thereby corrupting American values and violating interna...

The not so spun truth about the University of Hartford Hartford Business Journal Mike Clancy, a professor and member of the “2020 Woodward Task Force” recently had much to say criticizing  Mike Gargano’s article “Athletics did not create the financial crisis at UHart.”   Clancy’s article, published just hours after the Board vote to move from Division I to Division III sports, cites Gargano’s experience as an early 1980’s UH golf coach, as evidence of corrupt intent.  Clancy’s also fails to tell you of Gargano’s distinguished career spanning 40 years overseeing private...

Access to health care for undocumented people is both right and smart BRENDA LEON / CONNECTICUT PUBLIC RADIO Supporters of Senate Bill 956 spoke publicly on the consequences of limited access to health insurance for undocumented immigrants outside the Legislative Office Building in Hartford. Before the pandemic, Carlos liked playing soccer with his friends and building robots at school. His parents both worked, and provided him with a stable, loving home. Carlos was a healthy and thriving sixth grader. But when I met him, working as his pediatrician in the Intensive Care Unit, he was sufferin...