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Recalling the women who fought for the vote

 August 29, 2010

'I wanted to vote. I was anxious. It was a privilege." So recalls my mother about her first vote in a presidential election. The year was 1944, the height of World War II, and incumbent Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt was seeking the...

Blumenthal run a repeat of Kennelly?

 August 29, 2010

Winning elections isn't always the best preparation for becoming a governor or senator, especially if your victories have been too easy. Remember Barbara Kennelly? A member of Congress for 16 years from Connecticut's safest Democratic district and...

Democrats may 'pull a Coakley'

 August 22, 2010

After the liberal lion of the United States Senate Edward M. Kennedy died, the Massachusetts Democratic Party chose Attorney General Martha Coakley to fill his seat. The voters in the bluest of blue states had other ideas and chose Republican Scott...

A lengthy deacon decision

 August 22, 2010

Back on Jan. 4, 2009, my column focused on the fact that the Diocese of Norwich, which covers roughly the eastern half of Connecticut, had suspended its deacon program for about two years.

A toast to helping libraries

 August 15, 2010

Peter Megargee Brown may be 88, but he still vividly recalls his boyhood days spent at the New York Public Library on the Upper West Side's 93rd Street. Brown grew up nearby and heeded his father's advice that time in a library was time well spent,...

Drop the 'Drop and leave' idea

 August 15, 2010

From time to time, the Republican Party seeks to divert and entertain its extremist wing by promoting highly improbable amendments to the Constitution. You know the kind, amendments that would ban same-sex marriages or outlaw abortion, allow prayer...

Americans don't want tough choices

 August 8, 2010

We are in trouble. Last week on the front page of the New York Times was the following opening paragraph: "With pressure mounting on the federal government to find new revenues, Congress is considering legalizing, and taxing, an activity it banned...

Making the most of a motto

 August 8, 2010

'Nobody's man but yours," was the slogan Lowell P. Weicker Jr. used in 1990 when, running as a third-party candidate, he won the governor's race and stunned the Democratic and Republican party establishment.

Many choices for many positions

 August 1, 2010

Even the politically astute have got to be preparing scratch sheets to keep track of who is running for what this political season.

Tea party movement looks as though it's losing some steam

 July 25, 2010

'After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done." This old saying could apply to most politicians and political campaigns. In the current election cycle it will be most representative of the tea party movement.

Others debate, Lamont dodges

 July 25, 2010

When they go to the polls for the Aug. 10 primary, Democratic voters should hold it against Ned Lamont that he is unwilling to participate in further televised debates with his primary opponent in the race for governor, Dan Malloy.

Sandy Point has gone to the birds

 July 18, 2010

Least terns like Sandy Point as much as humans do, maybe even more so. More than 443 nesting pairs of the endangered terns - the smallest of the American species - have staked out real estate on the sinuous island preserve located between Watch Hill...

NL potential viewed with 130/130 vision

 July 11, 2010

Scott Capano says he's not a superstitious person, but when he found an available commercial building in a great location at a terrific price with the identical street number of the business he wants to duplicate, well, he just couldn't pass up the...

Connecticut, the land of opportunity?

 July 11, 2010

At one time Connecticut was a leader in new inventions and patents. We were at the hub of the Yankee can-do spirit. From the invention of the steamed cheeseburger and Wiffle ball to the design and construction of aircraft and nuclear submarines,...

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