36 Community College Supporters on Jan 31, 2020 04:58 am In December 2017, as the Connecticut State College and University system office was preparing its "Students First" consolidation plan, the system's Faculty Advisory Committee presented an extended critique of the proposal. It was not supportive, recommended other paths, and contained the following warning: "We believe that there is a risk, which is greater than zero, that the effort to work through the transition will result in such dysfunction and cost overruns that, several years from now, we will be tasked with putting the 12 institutions back together again." Two years later, we are now watching this excruciating and expensive possibility play out. Read more... 
Isabelle Hargrove on Jan 31, 2020 04:58 am According to State Senator Bob Duff's December 9 announcement, the State has approved -- despite Connecticut's financial woes and Gov. Ned Lamont's debt diet – a new $200 million Norwalk high school to be completed as early as 2023 with 80% state reimbursement, instead of our usual less than 35%. Unfortunately, information has now surfaced that indicates that this announcement was premature. In fact, the project is so tentative, it was unethical for our state senator to make such a promise and unwise for our local elected officials -- our mayor, Common Council and Board of Education -- to rush to action. Read more...
Joe Bentivegna MD on Jan 31, 2020 04:58 am Having failed to convince the good people of Connecticut to allow tolls for cars, Gov. Ned Lamont and the Democrats are hoping to sucker us into believing that if we allow toll gantries on 12 bridges just for Class 8 trucks (tractor trailers and large dump trucks); we will no longer be harassed for more money. But their actual goal is simply to get these gantries in place because with just a software change, tolls can be imposed later on smaller trucks, cars, motorcycles or any moving object attached to a taxpayer. Let's look at some of the details: Read more...
Jim Cameron on Jan 30, 2020 04:58 am The new year will bring some big changes at Greater Bridgeport Transit (GBT): the introduction of two new, all-electric buses to the fleet. GBT current runs 57 buses, 35 of them diesel-powered and 22 of them hybrids. The diesels get 3.2 mpg and the hybrids just 4.5 mpg, which means the busy transit agency must buy over a half-million gallons of diesel fuel a year. Read more...
Toni Boucher on Jan 30, 2020 04:58 am Education is everything. It is the way of out poverty and the path to freedom. My father repeated this message every day. He was right. It did pull us out of poverty and, it took us up the economic ladder. Like millions of other immigrants, a publicly funded education and hard work allowed us to attain the American Dream. Read more...
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