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Don't Ask For Patience On Gay RightsBarack Obama's "fierce" support for gay rights, expressed well before he was elected president, had long come as sweet music to the ears of gay rights advocates accustomed to a... Read more... |
Lengthen The School DayPresident Barack Obama's smart suggestion that students spend more time in school touched off a firestorm of resistance from some teachers, parents and bloggers. Read more... |
GOP Rivals Cry Foul Over Donations To DemsRob Simmons and Sam Caligiuri seem to think Linda McMahon flunked some sort of important loyalty test in making more than $35,000 in contributions to Democratic candidates and... Read more... |
'America's Best Idea': Good TV, Good TimingThe latest of filmmaker Ken Burns' probing looks at Americana — a six-part series detailing the genesis of this country's peerless national park system — comes at... Read more... |
Start Search Now For New DSS ChiefThe state Department of Social Services is the biggest safety net in Connecticut. It's also got the biggest budget in state government: $4.8 billion, more than 20 percent of the... Read more... |
CorrectionSaturday's editorial "A Great Honor, And Burden" misidentified the Norwegian Nobel Committee as the Swedish Academy. Read more... |
Obama's Snub Of The Dalai LamaTwo years ago, the Dalai Lama — the Tibetan Buddhist leader — was awarded Congress' highest civilian honor and met with President George W. Bush at the Capitol.... Read more... |
The Nobel: A Great Honor, And BurdenThe Nobel committee's choice for this year's peace prize is baffling, though flattering to the nation that elected him president. But it feels as though the committee has... Read more... |
Merritt On Danger ListPreservationists around the state were alarmed to learn the Merritt Parkway had been placed on a list of worldwide landmarks that are "significantly endangered." Is the historic,... Read more... |
Diocese Should Stop Keeping SecretsIt's well past time for the Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport to stop fighting the court-ordered release of documents concerning sexual abuse by priests. Read more... |
Finding A Few GOP ReformersCongressional Republicans are shouting an almost unanimous "no" to Democratic efforts to reform the nation's tattered health care system. Maine Sen. Olympia Snow might be the... Read more... |
Taxpayers Paid $220,000 For This?Gov. M. Jodi Rell has crossed the line in committing more than $220,000 in state funds for a 30-month study by University of Connecticut professor Kenneth Dautrich, ostensibly on... Read more... |
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Opinion Columnists
Laurence Cohen & Gina Barreca
So Women Can't Parallel Park? - October 4, 2009 - Larry Gina, although it's much harder to be a man than to be a woman, I can't use that distraction as an excuse for ignoring the crippling handicaps...
Tom Condon
Central's Big Makeover - October 11, 2009 - Much has been made — and rightly so — of the changes wrought at the University of Connecticut's main campus in Storrs by the $1 billion UConn 2000 initiative. The...
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Frank Harris III
Americans: The Not-So-Great Unwashed - October 1, 2009 - A group of interplanetary aliens studying Americans might easily decide that we are the cleanest bunch of folks in the galaxy.
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Kevin Rennie
E-Mail Episode Shows Why Moody Must Go - October 4, 2009 - Do not fly over the state Capitol. It's a no-go zone, the center of the Moody Triangle, where documents exposing the ceaseless manipulations of Gov. M. Jodi Rell's chief of staff...
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Robert M. Thorson
Ardi Is A Big Step Closer To Evolutionary Split - October 8, 2009 - It just got easier to believe in human evolution. Lucy has moved out of the limelight. Ardi has stepped into our lives.
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