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2008 Column Archive

December 25 The Year in Public Policy
December 18 We’ll Know Jodi Is Serious When …
December 11 Locked In to ‘Peak Oil’ Nonsense
December 04 BA Reform? Think Bigger
November 27 Does the ‘Ghost Cat’ Prowl Connecticut?
November 20 Connecticut’s Newspapers Are Dying -- Good
November 13 Games Municipal Politicians Play
November 6 RIP, Connecticut GOP
October 30 The Con-Con Con
October 23 Hi, I’m Jodi and I’m a Spendaholic
October 16 OPM: Other People’s Money?
October 9 CCM Still Doesn’t Get It
October 2 Mr. Weicker’s Wild Ride
September 25 Designing Women Fight Big Government
September 18 Don’t Confuse ‘Sprawl’ Paranoiacs With Facts
September 11 Higher Ed … Or Just Higher Taxes?
September 04 Connecticut Should ‘Do The Opposite’
August 28 Back to Preschool
August 21 The Sad Saga of Taxation in Connecticut
August 14 Support Connecticut Agriculture -- Smoke Cigars
August 07 The Worst Congressional Delegation in America?
July 31 Three Local Officials Who Get It
July 24 Conventional Thinking Won’t Save Connecticut
July 17 ‘Clean’ Elections vs. The Real World
July 10 Public Employees Gone Wild
July 03 Investigating Enfield’s Educrats
June 26 Connecticut’s Incredible Shrinking Workforce
June 19 Cost and Quality in Connecticut’s Government Schools
June 12 In Defense of the Property Tax
June 05 Connecticut Public Employees, Meet Reality
May 29 Uh, About That Revolution in ‘Green’ Energy …
May 22 Regional Government? Careful What You Wish For
May 15 Revolting ‘Redevelopment’ in the Nutmeg State
May 8

The Lessons of the Conveyance-Tax Battle
May 1  Impoverish Yourself -- Buy Local!
April 24 Tax Favors ≠ Economic Development
April 17  ‘Voices’ for Economic Ignorance and Higher Taxes
April 10  Connecticut’s Battle of the Budgets
April 3 Free Us From Connecticut’s Bicycle Fascists!
March 27 Felling the Charter Oak Health Plan
March 20  Connecticut, the Environmental Wasteland? Talk to the Animals
March 13  Imagining A ‘Stimulus’ That Actually Stimulates
March 6  Connecticut’s Anti-Business Advocate
February 28  Protectionism Promises A Weaker Connecticut Economy
February 21   Spiking the Death-Tax Study
February 14 The Transparency Measure Connecticut ‘Government Reformers’ Fear
February 7       (Commuter) Railroading Taxpayers
January 31  The State of the Municipalities
January 24    Fatherlessness in Connecticut -- Who Cares?
January 17   Connecticut’s Perfect Fiscal Storm
January 10   The Smearing of Armand Fusco