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Vet promising plan for Seaside funding
May 18, 2013; Updated: 5:12 pm
Both the Town of Waterford and the lawmakers that represent it are taking the right step in proceeding cautiously before pursuing legislation that would create a special tax district. A developer contends the district is needed to generate the...
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Approve new Ledyard police station
May 17, 2013; Updated: 5:25 pm
Few can dispute that Ledyard needs a new police station. The existing headquarters on Lorenz Industrial Parkway in part dates back to the 19th century and had been used at one time as stables; the building is cramped, leaky and run-down. It would...
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Don't let scandal grind policy to a halt
May 16, 2013; Updated: 11:47 pm
The nation cannot afford to have the scandals swirling around the Obama administration stagnate an already sluggish Congress. There is no doubt the controversies will make it more difficult for President Obama to find Republican partners to pass...
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Senate seniority sometimes goes too far
May 15, 2013; Updated: 11:27 am
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What would GOP do?
May 14, 2013; Updated: 5:38 pm
The Republican leadership in the state legislature lost credibility with its decision not to present an alternative to the budget submitted by the governor and now under debate by the Democratic majority in the General Assembly.
For the...
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Redacted truth, subjunctive outrage
Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don't know. History will judge. Second, overhyping will only diminish the importance of the scandal if it doesn't meet...
COMMENTS (1)Obama fans should look on the sunny side
Let's try to come up with some positive thoughts about the recent political fortunes of the Obama White House:
• Economy's getting a little better. Deficit's dropping.
• Bill Clinton had a really terrible second term and...
COMMENTS (4)Obama government's list of careless errors
At a time when Congress can't pass a budget and the president can't win approval of any important legislation, the public is indignant about the threat of an overreaching, all-powerful federal government that uses the IRS and the Justice...
COMMENTS (0)Benghazi and IRS: Obama's Watergate?
In his defense of President Obama, Press Secretary Jay Carney is beginning to sound a lot like Ronald Zeigler, Richard Nixon's spokesman. Carney only has to use the word "inoperative," as Ziegler did when incriminating evidence surfaced that...
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