The gripes keep jumping and the dudgeon is high. During the special General Assembly session in June, lawmakers quietly bailed out the red-ink-hemorrhaging UConn Health Center in Farmington to the   Read More »

Summertime and the griping is easy. It's graphic enough that the red-tailed hawks of downtown Hartford regularly pick off the squirrels from the state Capitol grounds and eviscerate them in the low   Read More »

Let's finish the Independence Day weekend with a celebration of that overlooked, misunderstood and too often-ignored minority group. Yes, we're celebrating Connecticut Republicans.   Read More »

Ken Krayeske, pseudo- journalist, itinerant rabble-rouser and impotent political provocateur, is no poster boy for the First Amendment. And yet, too many issues around his arrest and confinement by   Read More »

Governor Grandma's milquetoasty inaugural speech was typical of a breed of egg-laying, warm-blooded politicians: the platitude-puss. It was almost short — eight minutes — as these things   Read More »

The tour of the city on the brink of a renaissance starts with an apology, a couple of questions traded back and forth, a cocaine reference and an expletive used as a verb by Bridgeport's Everyman.   Read More »

The sands of another year are about to drain out of the big hourglass? How did that happen? And yet, it's irrefutable, as well as reviewable. There's a week left in my pocket calendar, so it's time   Read More »

I don't know too many State Police troopers, but it usually makes me feel safer knowing they're out there. With all the idiots on the roads - you know who you are - it's plain that these men and   Read More »

The upcoming budget-setting session of the General Assembly has a great chance to be historic, but lawmakers and Gov. M. Jodi Rell will have to avoid mainstream thinking if they're to make massive   Read More »

Now that Gov. Jodi Rell is assured a four-year term after two-and-a-half years of practice, it's time for her to start playing for the niche. It should be easy enough.   Read More »

Now that we're over the Nedster's mid-life crisis, Christopher Shays' televised meltdown and Joe Lieberman's imperious reaffirmation, we the voters are left to pick up the pieces of this nasty Campaign 2006. Any day now, I expect to see U.S. Rep. Nancy Johnson — whose attack ads, like her   Read More »

Amid the final flush — THERE's an appropriate verb — of twisted ads, distorted records and impossible-to-keep promises, Connecticut's political season is mercifully unwinding to a close.   Read More »

There's not enough mouthwash at the supermarket for us to dilute the taste of this rancid political season. Just when you thought the TV ads, the loops on your answering machine, the mailers, the   Read More »

It doesn't appear that Alan Schlesinger is going to take enough votes away from U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman for Ned — or as CBS News star Bob Scheiffer said, "Ted" — Lamont to win the   Read More »

Just when you think the politics of pandering had bottomed out like drops of mercury in a mineshaft, the gravity of the U.S. Senate campaign plunges a little lower.   Read More »

The League of Women Voters has something in common with the Connecticut Green Party. They are both shut out of the 2006 gubernatorial debates. The LWV wanted Cliff Thornton, the Green Party   Read More »

The full sturgeon moon was rising over New Haven's Crown Street like a celestial klieg light early Wednesday as the survivors of Connecticut's crazy   Read More »