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Is federal funding for highways being “chipped away?”

By Steve McGough / June 9, 2014 /

So says the first line of The Hartford Courant’s story this morning. Connecticut is talking about adding high-tech tolls to stretches of I-95 and I-84 in the state, but is the reasoning valid?

Hartford Courant OpEd: 2nd Amendment does not include “assault rifles”

By Steve McGough / February 10, 2016 /

In an opinion piece published in the Hartford Courant today by Noah Feldman, a constitutional law professor at Harvard, Feldman outright states the 2nd Amendment does not include assault rifles. His reasoning comes down to this*, with my emphasis. … there’s something special about weapons that can be used both for self-defense and for militias … those…

“Balanced” budget for Connecticut … ticking fiscal time bomb?

By Jim Vicevich / May 6, 2010 /

Just asking, is all. Yesterday I took a completely fair and balanced whack at Connecticut’s legislature’s fair and balanced budget. The newspaper’s headline. “No New Taxes”, probably made most in the Constitution State sigh with relief. But not me and not because I’m just a negative cranky Yankee either. Because as Dan Haar (bless you…

Hartford public schools welcome ACORN

By Steve McGough / September 19, 2008 /

In this today’s Hartford Courant, we learn about the ACORN’s visit Hartford Public. ACORN – the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now – has been caught up in a bunch of voter registration scandals around the country and is as liberal as you can get. The money line from the Courant’s article? Keep reading…

Hartford Courant media bias on display

By Steve McGough / September 2, 2008 /

It’s not a Republican war you idiots. It’s a war on terrorism – you know, the Axis of Evil folks that want Americans either converted to their poluted form of Islam or our heads cut off.