by Zack Albert | Aug 7, 2013 | Blog, Politics
By most accounts, this past session of Connecticut’s General Assembly was an abysmal, opaque legislative failure. Bills were rushed through the Chamber, public input and government transparency were trampled or ignored, and convoluted legislation has raised questions...
by Zack Albert | Aug 1, 2013 | Blog, Economy, General, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Of the thousands of billboard advertisements in Connecticut, those placed along I-84 in Hartford must be some of the most viewed. The reason is not simply the number of commuters who travel that highway on a daily basis, but also the fact that those commuters are very...
by Zack Albert | Jul 10, 2013 | Blog, Politics
Living up to their sport, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc. has taken aim at some very high level targets. In a lawsuit launched Monday attacking Senate Bill 1160, which issued in sweeping gun reform legislation in Connecticut, the NSSF named as defendants...
by Zack Albert | Jun 12, 2013 | Blog, Taxes & Spending
The election of Kevin Lembo as the state’s Comptroller has always stood out, in my mind, as a bright spot in an otherwise dismal 2010 electoral cycle. His policy initiatives, especially those aimed at greater government transparency, seek to remind lawmakers of an...
by Zachary Janowski | May 29, 2013 | Blog, Education
Two researchers at the Pioneer Institute in Boston think so. They explain how Connecticut fell behind in reading in their Wall Street Journal op-ed questioning the wisdom of the Common Core. This academic-lite approach has been tried before—and it failed. In 1998,...
by Zack Albert | May 29, 2013 | Blog, Commentary, Education, Municipal
Most people who have ever taken a physics course know Newton’s law, which states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Similarly, most people who follow state and local politics recognize that every governmental action has (typically) negative...
