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    As news broke Thursday of the arrest of Gov. Ned Lamont’s former deputy budget chief, I couldn’t help but wonder how the governor could have been so clueless about what the FBI called blatant wrongdoing in his administration.
    Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and with its 24-12 majority the Democratic caucus in Connecticut's Senate is well on its way there. For recent comment...
    "Stormy Daniels Put Trump's Toxic Horniness on Full Display," read a Daily Beast headline. What has really been put on display is Donald Trump's desperate need to portray...
    As the city prepares to revamp management of the park, it might want to consider a larger reset of the magnificent property.
    While friends and I were strolling through Ninigret Park in Charlestown, R.I., the other morning, a couple walking toward us with a baby carriage stopped, and I replied b...

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    Groton — It is a few days removed now from an altercation between two men at Poquonnock Plains Park, the residual effect of which included one of the men waving a gun. Wh...
    Angry, arrogant, clueless and overpaid are not things you like to see in a chief executive, as you are raising electric rates some 19%.
    Here we are in Times Square. Maniac lights flash across all horizons. Minnie Mouse and Spider-Man are making the rounds. Packed tour buses inch below the scary headlines ...
    Vision and determination. They are the human qualities that created Norwich's gems over the years, some of them dating back to the mid-19th century that are still paying...
    When he was installed two weeks ago, Hartford’s new Catholic archbishop, Christopher J. Coyne, said he has several big objectives, though he conceded that with two of the...

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    As wind turbines have grown in size, some question whether the 40-acre State Pier property in New London with its 38 acres of usable space is adequate to stage these mammoth mechanical devices.
    Don’t we all hope the former president takes the stand and sets the record straight?
    When it comes to informing drivers about the best way to merge at highway construction sites that require lane closures, the state Department of Transportation is failing...
    A big game of chicken may determine what becomes of Waterbury Hospital, Manchester Memorial Hospital and Rockville General Hospital in Vernon. Yale New Haven Health, whic...
    Pondering the realities of celebrity food sponsorships
    Is it fair to ask teenagers to give up sports and parties to care for parents or other older relatives? That's an important question these days, because so many now do. T...
    North Stonington — The boys of winter watched amusingly earlier this week, their old coach who donned the snazzy suits for basketball in more casual duds for softball: ma...
    The agent for the developer of a controversial project in Old Mystic, which neighbors say has destroyed a wetlands, has been appointed to town wetlands commission by a 2-1 vote.
    “Hey, Ernie! You in there?” Bob Ten Eyck called from his kayak. No reply – not surprising, considering “Ernie” is a ghost said to haunt New London Ledge Lighthouse. Bob a...
    Connecticut state government's mad dash to the far left produced another ridiculous moment last week when, as the Connecticut Mirror reported, "with no explanation and sc...