Groton — It was one of those crystalline, sun-soaked days with which October, despite her hints the gales of November are gaining, treats us occasionally. A perfect day f...
Donald Trump's tax and spending plans would add enormous amounts to the national debt, with some estimates as high as $15 trillion over a decade. But some of his tax cuts...
Idle Thoughts, while waiting for the high school football playoffs, Jayson Tatum’s MVP award and for the Giants to get a first down:
• Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friend...
For a long time, I have advocated for Connecticut to join most of the country and provide for early in-person voting. So it felt great last Monday, Oct. 21, to finally ca...
The growth of manufacturing in Connecticut is occurring due to a new commitment to nurture the vast array of businesses that make specialized products from toothpaste tubes to wind turbines to submarines.
Full of enthusiasm for the prospect, a Torrington resident writes to the Waterbury Republican-American that the forthcoming presidential election "is a chance to end the ...
While scrambling up steep, rocky Metacomet Trail on Meriden’s East Peak one sunny day last week, Phil Plouffe and I glanced hopefully every few seconds toward a lofty ri...
The Republican candidate in the 19th District, who calls Democrats “evil,” also says the government will shut down your bank accounts to make you turn in your guns.
Mashantucket - Many of us in the crowd of more than 600 caught tears occasionally Tuesday night, awash in stories of perseverance and triumph. The best night of the whole...
With the election upon us, many voters are focused on Donald Trump's unraveling mental state and his radical plans to kill off the democracy. But there should be space to...
It was during an episode of M*A*S*H, in the operating room, when Hawkeye Pierce nearly lost a patient. He frantically performed CPR, screaming, "Live, dammit, live! Don't...
Fourteen days of early voting began this week in Connecticut for the Nov. 5 federal and state elections, and since this early voting must be done in person, there's nothi...
Before his July 25, 1946, match against Jackie Graves, featherweight boxing champion Willie Pep bet he could win a round without throwing a punch. Bobbing and weaving and...
As I stood on my deck watching the autumn leaves floating about like errant monarch butterflies, I could hear the distant gabling of geese. Then, far off in the dusk, I s...
Groton — Among the escalating collection of frauds in this country are the dullards who bristle at condemning a whole group of people for the actions of a few … but are o...
The tricks Donald Trump tried to play on the recent hurricane victims were beyond depraved. Here were people suffering major losses, their lives stopped in a hellscape of...