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Airplanes have Wifi. Even Connecticut’s CTfastrak commuter bus system from New Britain to Hartford gives its passengers free Wifi. Commuter... (Read more)
5 / 14 / 2022
Letters to the Editor, Opinion columns, Editorials
Airplanes have Wifi. Even Connecticut’s CTfastrak commuter bus system from New Britain to Hartford gives its passengers free Wifi. Commuter... (Read more)
5 / 14 / 2022
May is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month and with the unofficial start of travel season here, and in light of... (Read more)
5 / 9 / 2022
This article was written for the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education, known as CABE, in the fall of... (Read more)
5 / 5 / 2022
Draft opinions circulated among Supreme Court justices are meant to allow for deliberation and editing before a final version... (Read more)
5 / 4 / 2022
Could Connecticut become the next front in Vladimir Putin’s war against Western Democracies? Just imagine this headline: “PUTIN’S OLIGARCHS... (Read more)
5 / 3 / 2022
It was a huge mistake, one that commuters and planners have regretted for over 60 years. For it was... (Read more)
4 / 16 / 2022
A colleague from Kyiv, Ukraine, whom I’ll call N.M., sent me brief essays her students wrote on what they... (Read more)
4 / 10 / 2022
To bring acceptance to the unique perspectives of people with Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorder, the Norwalk Board of... (Read more)
4 / 2 / 2022
Editor’s note: This story was published on April 1, known to many as April Fools Day… NORWALK, Conn. —... (Read more)
4 / 1 / 2022
On Tuesday March 15, Mayor Harry Rilling submitted his FY23 Capital Budget Recommendation in alignment with the City charter.... (Read more)
3 / 27 / 2022
The Norwalk Board of Education is proud to celebrate the return of middle school sports programs throughout the district.... (Read more)
3 / 19 / 2022
One option the U.S. and other nations have for ratcheting up pressure on Russia in response to its invasion... (Read more)
3 / 4 / 2022
Russian aggression toward Ukraine continues. The nations of the world, and their current alliances, have so far proved ineffective... (Read more)
2 / 27 / 2022
The U.S. economy surprised analysts by adding 467,000 jobs in January, overcoming omicron concerns and continuing a long streak... (Read more)
2 / 22 / 2022
Every industry focused on excellence is focused on identifying and replicating best practices. The best practices I know most... (Read more)
2 / 17 / 2022
Last week, nine Norwalk students represented their peers in a conversation with U.S. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel Cardona.... (Read more)
2 / 5 / 2022
The Norwalk Board of Education is proud to recognize Black History Month at Norwalk Public Schools. Throughout the month,... (Read more)
2 / 5 / 2022
In recognition of National Mentoring Month, the Norwalk Board of Education is proud to recognize Norwalk mentors for their... (Read more)
1 / 23 / 2022
On July 2, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. stood behind President Lyndon Baines Johnson as the Texan signed into... (Read more)
1 / 17 / 2022
Building and maintaining our highways is expensive. But here’s a quiz question: on Interstates 95 and 84, what costs... (Read more)
1 / 13 / 2022
Jim Cameron makes some interesting arguments against sound barriers. It is a shame that most of his assertions are factually... (Read more)
1 / 13 / 2022
I’m out of practice with snow! I was at my Mother’s house last week when a freak storm came... (Read more)
1 / 10 / 2022
Huh? A year ago I seriously was hoping, even expecting, that the pandemic would be over by now. I... (Read more)
1 / 1 / 2022
Over the year, we receive many emails and comments from readers, some complimentary, some not-so-complimentary, some downright nasty. As... (Read more)
12 / 30 / 2021
The pandemic has brought many tricky terms and ideas from epidemiology into everyone’s lives. Two particularly complicated concepts are... (Read more)
12 / 28 / 2021
The poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” better known by its opening line “‘Twas the Night before Christmas,” has... (Read more)
12 / 25 / 2021
One of the main concerns raised by critics of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan is that it... (Read more)
12 / 22 / 2021
One of Sen. Joe Manchin’s main concerns in deciding to pull his support for President Joe Biden’s Build Back... (Read more)
12 / 21 / 2021
Each season, the celebration of Christmas has religious leaders and conservatives publicly complaining about the commercialization of the holiday... (Read more)
12 / 19 / 2021
Consumer prices jumped 6.8% in November 2021 from a year earlier – the fastest rate of increase since 1982,... (Read more)
12 / 12 / 2021