The baseball establishment personified by the Hall of Fame, for those who don't know, is legendarily conservative. Some years back, pre-Faux, they wanted to honor the great baseball movie "Bull   Read More »

Newspaper headlines regularly report child abuse somewhere in Connecticut, including the tragic deaths of children from abuse. It's a scourge that takes many forms.   Read More »

Turn on the television or open a newspaper, and you can't avoid it: Today's crisis in our mortgage markets has led to a historic — and, for many, tragic — increase in home   Read More »

There is little government can do about the price of oil. That is not what people want to hear. Yet it is a fact. The U.S. government and all the states have no "Plan B.   Read More »

Consumers and businesses in Connecticut are facing unprecedented economic and environmental challenges. Although improvements continue to be made to enhance electric reliability and increase capacity   Read More »

It's likely that most Connecticut realtors don't remember — or never heard of — the Brezhnev Doctrine. But the policy that no nation would be permitted to leave the Soviet-controlled   Read More »

I am generally a very positive thinker. Nevertheless, despite the warmer weather, brightening landscape and longer days, it's sometimes hard to remain optimistic as I read the daily headlines.   Read More »

Imagine a vacant industrial eyesore harboring drugs, squalor, undesirables and unspeakable contamination. Imagine it sitting there for decades with no one doing anything about it, to the detriment of   Read More »

I grew up reading newspapers. The morning paper delivered right to the door — the routine provides a structure in which I seek to achieve some daily perfection.   Read More »

An adequate supply of reliable, efficiently priced electricity is critical to the success of New England's economy. The region's power system has had a long history of dependability, but electricity   Read More »