Connecticut Local Politics

In today’s New York Times there was an article about the U.S. incarceration rate. The money quote is below:
“For the first time in the nation’s history, more than one in 100 American adults is behind bars, according to a new report. Nationwide, the prison population grew by 25,000 last year, bringing it to […]

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A grab bag of news items from this holiday weekend.
It’s not just billboards. Governor Rell, in the wake of the Illinois school shooting, has said that she will convene a conference on school safety in the next six weeks.
To give us an idea of what we have to look forward to, the members of […]

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As we approach Connecticut’s Presidential primary, it seems as if we are still feeling and seeing the effects of Connecticut’s last state-wide primary, the one for U.S. Senate two years ago. The ribbles of that outcome, which had Lamont winning the Democratic endorsement for Senate over a three-term Senator and former Vice-Presidential candidate, are […]

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I had forgotten. I suppose part of me have given up. In our age of cynical sound bites and the stumbling incoherence of our Commander in Chief, I guess I no longer thought that it was part of our national vocabulary. I’m talking about eloquence, the poetry of politics. This morning, […]

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Some might even call it “hot”…;-)
Ghengis suggested an introductory post - so here’s a brief history of Saramerica:
Grew up in Stamford, with a hiatus living in London from 1970-1975. That was where I had my first exposure to terrorism - I sat on a captains chair at the Earl’s Court Boat Show under which an […]

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Two related must-read items that I wanted to pass along.

Voting Torture for Vito (h/t Christine Stuart)
6,453 Perez Votes: No Vindication (h/t tparty

It’s easy to understand why someone would choose not to vote in Connecticut. Politicians like Eddie Perez, Lou DeLuca, John Fabrizi, etc. are hardly the best spokespeople for Democracy. Corruption happens almost […]

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The political conversations I enjoy the most always leave me with more questions than answers. I’m less interested in being lectured or informed than I am in being inspired and called to action. This especially true when a conversation involves feminism, politics, and how those movements intersect.
Yesterday I attended a panel […]

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The New Haven Register picked up an AP story today that reports Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas discusses the failures of Affirmative Action in his new autobiography “My Grandfather’s Son.”

The conservative justice says he initially considered his admission to Yale a dream, but soon felt he was there because of his race. He says he […]

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I heard this on the radio this morning and just couldn’t resist. It seems that Democrat State Representative Robert Keeley of Bridgeport Doesn’t practice what he preaches. Keeley, one of scores of co-sponsors of the cell phone ban while driving was busted for doing just that on September 12th.
From the only article in the world […]

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The CCSU Recorder, led by editod Mark Rowan is at it again. Earlier this year The Recorder ran a charming horrific satire: Rape Only Hurts If You Fight It. Well, Rowan and and his fellow staffers have published another gem.
From the Courant:

Donis said Hispanic students and faculty are outraged by the […]

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Eddie Perez should NOT be re-elected. He probably will be, but Hartford deserves so much better.

There is no telling what will happen in Bridgeport next Tuesday. Either man could win it, although I sense that Caruso has a slight edge. Still, no matter what happens, we’re almost certainly looking at some sort of special election […]

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Someone poured dish soap in a 1906 fountain over in Derby. There is a $1400 reward for this beast, who is clearly the darkest fiend in the cosmos.
Now, Derby has its problems with graffiti, and officials there have been fighting the good fight in trying to eliminate vandalism and blight. In fact they […]

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Well it seems that a state employee had a laptop with 106,000 state residents’ personal info on the hard drive stolen from his car. What’s the kicker in all of this is that it happened 11 days ago and we are just now hearing about it. Not a typo - it’s 11, not 1.
Forgetting for […]

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No. Not the drug. The one on your backside.
The Connecticut Post reports this morning that Town Councilman Alvin O’Neal (D-2) is proposing a town ordinance to ban “pants which fall below the buttocks to expose their undergarments.”
I think we are all pretty excited for Stratford. They have solved all their other problems, […]

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At least, so says a poll released this morning by the Hartford Courant.
…68 percent said they don’t like it when politicians rely on their religious beliefs to make public policy decisions, and 54 percent said their own religion plays no role in deciding whom to support in an election.
It’s not that people in the […]

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