Green Day’s 1997 hit “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” opens with the line: Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road It’s an effective way to start a song, especially paired with such a classic acoustic guitar riff. But it also demands we ask the question — does songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong know…
Dark Money is Funding Anti-Union Propaganda in CT
Crossing the Pearl Harbor Bridge this afternoon, I saw this billboard: It included a URL for a website, CTWorkers.org. When I got home, I visited that website, and found this: The whole website is dedicated to encouraging public sector workers to resign from their unions and stop paying dues. Of course, their stated mission is…
Tolls aren’t too expensive. Driving is.
One of the most contentious issues during this month’s statewide midterm elections was that of highway tolls. Now-governor-elect Ned Lamont moved from a pro-toll position to a (possibly illegal) plan to implement heavy truck-only tolls. Businessman Republican Bob Stefanowski decried them as “just another tax.” Stefanowski, an aloof would-be populist, sums up the opposition’s argument…
What a difference a little perspective makes
A case study in the phenomenon of “fake news” (or in any case, our inability to arrive at anything like an objective set of facts): Last Saturday in Portland, Oregon activists marched through the streets in protest of the police killing of a black man named Patrick Kimmons. At one point, a silver Lexus drove…
Democrats blaming high gas prices on Trump is stupid and self-defeating
Last week, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer hosted a press conference blaming high gas prices on Republican President Donald Trump. Earlier this week, Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal did the same at a Shell station in Hartford. Per CTNewsJunkie.com: “[There are] clear steps that the President of the United States can take [to reduce gas prices],” Blumenthal said….