The Day RSS Feeds - Opinion http://www.theday.com The Day (New London-CT) en-us <![CDATA[Perry & Texas, less than meets the eye]]> http://www.theday.com/article/20130619/OP01/306199980/1069/rss06 Texas Gov. Rick Perry appeared to be a strong contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. Conservatives pointed to his low-regulation, pro-business agenda for helping Texas...
]]> 2013-06-18T23:58:47-04:00 http://www.theday.com/article/20130619/OP01/306199980/1069/rss06 <![CDATA[Wednesday's cartoon - June 19]]> http://www.theday.com/article/20130619/OP06/306199988/1069/rss06 ]]> 2013-06-18T23:49:01-04:00 http://www.theday.com/article/20130619/OP06/306199988/1069/rss06 <![CDATA[Stop overpaying the hospitals]]> http://www.theday.com/article/20130619/OP03/306199992/1069/rss06 Little victories in curbing health care costs can add up, even when measured against the titanic $2.6 trillion Americans spend a year on health care. So let us salute them.

Case in point,...
]]> 2013-06-18T17:25:25-04:00 http://www.theday.com/article/20130619/OP03/306199992/1069/rss06 <![CDATA[White House wrong to enter Syrian war]]> http://www.theday.com/article/20130619/OP03/306199994/1069/rss06 Two recent newspaper editorials illustrate the double-mindedness some feel about President Obama's decision to provide small arms and ammunition to Syrian rebels.

The Washington Post...
]]> 2013-06-18T17:25:24-04:00 http://www.theday.com/article/20130619/OP03/306199994/1069/rss06 <![CDATA[Day also guilty of selective language use]]> http://www.theday.com/article/20130619/OP02/306199997/1069/rss06 The Day's June 9 editorial's - "Independent Party attack un-Democratic" - admonishment of Republicans for referring to the Democrat Party as the Democrat Party instead of the "Democratic Party"...
]]> 2013-06-18T17:25:19-04:00 http://www.theday.com/article/20130619/OP02/306199997/1069/rss06 <![CDATA[Steering a better course for the Amistad]]> http://www.theday.com/article/20130618/OP01/306189975/1069/rss06 Fog has too long shrouded the mission of and money connected to the schooner Amistad, built at Mystic Seaport with state funds and designed to tell the story of Connecticut's role in...
]]> 2013-06-17T23:10:26-04:00 http://www.theday.com/article/20130618/OP01/306189975/1069/rss06 <![CDATA[Degrading the value of the common man]]> http://www.theday.com/article/20130618/OP03/306189968/1069/rss06 About a century ago, Walter Judd was a 17-year-old boy hoping to go to college at the University of Nebraska. His father pulled him aside and told him that, although the family had...
]]> 2013-06-17T23:32:04-04:00 http://www.theday.com/article/20130618/OP03/306189968/1069/rss06 <![CDATA[Editorial cartoon - June 18, 2013]]> http://www.theday.com/article/20130618/OP06/306189971/1069/rss06


]]> 2013-06-17T23:03:18-04:00 http://www.theday.com/article/20130618/OP06/306189971/1069/rss06 <![CDATA[Retired people have busy weekday lives]]> http://www.theday.com/article/20130618/OP02/306189978/1069/rss06 Regarding the letter, "Retired people should cut lawns on weekdays," (June 13), I feel that as a retired person I need to comment.

Has this person ever thought that even retired people have...
]]> 2013-06-17T23:03:11-04:00 http://www.theday.com/article/20130618/OP02/306189978/1069/rss06 <![CDATA[The art of trains a fun exhibit in New London]]> http://www.theday.com/article/20130618/OP02/306189979/1069/rss06 What an impressive and fun review of late New London resident Robert Hauschild's works at Studio 33 Art and Frame Gallery on Bank Street, New London.

Dubbed the "Norman Rockwell of trains,"...
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