OIB media partner Chris Powell shares another take on the ICE shooting. By CHRIS POWELL Seven years ago a Wethersfield police officer shot and killed
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Columnist: Bridgeport’s Prospects Brighten Amid Stunning Decline In Murders
OIB media partner Chris Powell, who has written about Connecticut government and politics for decades, highlights Bridgeport’s dramatic drop in murders in his latest column.
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Mamdani Wins – So is “Democratic Socialism” Connecticut’s Fate?
From media partner Chris Powell: Maybe the most effective slogan for Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor of New York City was “A city we can
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Powell: Dems Want Open Borders, Kirk A Brave Advocate, Not A National Hero
From media partner Chris Powell: In a recent newspaper essay, state Sen. Gary Winfield, D-New Haven, laid out clearly the position of most Democratic officials in
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Columnist: Trump Right On Crime But Connecticut Indifferent
From OIB media partner Chris Powell For the sake of argument, stipulate that President Trump, a Republican, never has good intentions, only demagogic ones, and
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Columnist: CT Dems Get Hysterical As Trump Proclaims The Obvious About Crime And Mental Illness
From Veteran columnist Chris Powell: How easily President Trump can send Connecticut’s Democratic elected officials and its social-service industry into sanctimonious indignation and hysteria just
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Columnist: Hartford, Bridgeport Schools Urgently Need State Takeover
Veteran columnist Chris Powell writes the state education department “should have taken control of both Hartford and Bridgeport school systems long ago. Their problems are
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Commentary: Raise Your Voices, Lamont Is Jacking Local Property Taxes
Joe DeLong, executive director of the lobbying group Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, declares in this commentary that Governor Ned Lamont is screwing local taxpayers: In
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